My first galga, Karmel, developed pemphigus foliaceous, a genetic disease which breaks down the auto immune system of a dog – or cat – and also in humans. I have just been contacted by a galgo adoptant, whose beautiful 3yr old galga has been diagnosed with pf, and is desperate for any help regarding treatment, as her vet is running out of ideas. Besides the articles I wrote on Galgo News about Karmel and pf, are there any other readers who have had a diagnosis of pemphigus foliaceous in their dogs? If so, please email me band@bbrennan.eu
Pemphigus Foliaceous – auto immune disease – has your dog suffered?
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4 responses to “Pemphigus Foliaceous – auto immune disease – has your dog suffered?”
I do not know any dog with this disease, but found an interesting weblink
http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/vetmed/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=653149&pageID=1&sk=&date=
I wish the poor dog all the best.
Tunde
I found this website http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_pemphigus_foliaceus.html
My galgo also had an autoimmune disease, albeit not pemphigus. He was helped completely by ultra high doses of fish oil (about 3 months daily) in combination with Antibiotics to help fend off infection. Thankfully, I did not have to resort to steriods, but a combination treatment may be necessary. http://www.grassmere-animal-hospital.com/SLO.htm (here is the site with the dosis.
There is also this site that I found: http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20103013999.html;jsessionid=990525D4E4785B87FA4912D2226A452F?gitCommit=4.13.8-6-g6e31ff9
I just wondered what that poor dog gets to eat. Industrial pet food is often a problem with pets, causes several diseases, too.
It might be beneficial to switch to natural feeding aka raw green tripe or similar. BARF.
Unfortunately there are not many veterinarians that support this kind of feeding, because most of them have no clue about pet nutrition as they do not get any good and unbiased education on pet nutrition (what they normally get at the university is a few hours nutrition “education” delivered by representatives of big pet food multinational companies). Plus veterinarians make a hell of a money by selling industrial pet food as Hill’s perfectly branded diet crap for example.
This is the site of a veterinary nutritionist, it is rather for cat lovers but I would consider contacting her nevertheless as many diseases are caused or supported by nutrition issues.
http://www.catinfo.org/
(for cat lovers is this site a must anyway, IMHO)
I can second what Tunde said. Right around the time when my galgo was treated for the autoimmune disease, I supplemented his already organic meat diet with BARF. Also I supplemented with “Moor”. His fur now is super duper shiny and I do believe that nutrition is a key to getting these autoimmune diseases under control.