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Basically- CHRONIC IBD causing chronic inflammation can lead to disease in other body organs - eg kidney.
Our priorities need to recognise this and is why we focus on bowel health.
FIX THE GUT.

Let’s just jump straight into this 🤯 pearl with a quote from medicine specialist Dr Bing Zhu from SASH vets - Small Animal Specialist Hospital :

"I can't tell you the number of times that I’ve pulled these dogs off their renal diet, put them onto a novel protein or a hydrolysed protein diet, treated their gut disease, and then they become non-azotaemic.”

Wait, what?

Here’s what:

Low-grade GI disease can lead to chronic inflammation and acute kidney injuries. Dr Bing sees this as a fairly common reason for ongoing AKI that can look like CKD. (Let me say that again - it’s not azotaemia because the kidneys are chronically cooked, it’s ongoing azotaemia from ONGOING ACUTE kidney episodes.)
Typical case: Dog with life-long low grade GI disease, e.g., the occasional random vomit, soft poos from time to time, variable appetite. Owners think it's just normal for their dog.

Routine bloods in later life reveals azotaemia - we think it's CKD, so we start it on a renal diet (high fat, low protein, non-hydrolysed).
"Guess what’s bad for dogs with gut disease? High fat, non-hydrolysed protein renal diets. Two months later, their creatinine gets worse and they're told, oh yeah, your dog just has really bad kidney disease.”

These patients actually have repeated, low-grade AKIs secondary to unrecognised intestinal disease. In these cases, addressing the underlying disease (e.g., novel protein or hydrolysed protein diet with the appropriate immunosuppressive for chronic GI disease) will stop the damage to the kidneys and resolve or at least massively improve the azotaemia.
I told you… 🤯

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Dental X-rays are a routine part of every dental procedure. Just as X-rays are essential for orthopaedic surgery (no one would fix a broken bone without doing an X-ray) dental procedures, planning extractions and follow up checks all require X-rays.
Credit: Veterinary Dentistry Training