Diluted urine, good health
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One of my dogs a number of years ago, had the problem of unine not concentrating. It started as a very younk puppy. mabye 3 months old. She drank so much water and seemed to pee 3 times the amount. Her attitude was good and she ate well. All behavior was normal, that is for a sheepdog.  The vet thought it was kidney failure. After serveral hundred $$$$ for tests that finally came back ok, she was started on a chewable tablet, which I can't remember the name. I gave it to her daily for a number of months and checked her urine 2x's per week. It was nice to see yellow urine again. Finally I was able to take her off and all was well. I hope all goes well and will keep positive thoughts.  Nancy G |
| There are many possibilities that it is impossible to state for certain. One is UTI. Another is kidney problems due to being born with small kidneys. Toxins, diabetes, Cushings, pituitary gland not functioning properly, etc etc. Splash had that problem for years, vet never could find a cause, but the dog was more and more incontinent as she aged. Right now just let her drink as much water as she wants (and full and quick access to outside potty area ) and let the vet figure out what is happening. May it be like above, controlled with a tiny pill. |
| Not an OES, but my basset Simon is living with some residual kidney damage from an infection that also damaged his heart (mitral valve). He is adapting (his body doing this) by drinking more water than normal and he has very dilute urine as a result. It's at a manageable level, and our vet says as long as we can live with the higher intake and resulting higher output (along with not being able to hold it as long and some incontinence), it's actually the best route to take. We briefly discussed meds, but that opened a whole new can of worms with side effects, so we opted to go the route we are doing now. Of course this is all after many vet visits and a health crisis where he nearly died when we were initially getting this all diagnosed, so living with this as an inconvenience is NOTHING! Every day and week and month is a gift. This is our new "normal" and we live with it.  |
| A few months ago, Brick gave me a scare when he started peeing more. I took a sample to the vet for checking. While it looked normal, the vet told me the specific gravity was 1.000 (should be 1.035 or higher), which is the specific gravity of water. According to the vet, the urine should have been clear but it looked like normal pee. That got her concerned that he was passing red blood cells or bilylrubin in his urine. She ordered major bloodwork and was very worried something serious was wrong (they even took the blood from his neck to keep his leg blood vessels in good shape in case they needed to put IVs in him). But the blood work came back normal, so we sent another pee sample out to the lab. His sg was still 1.003. They ran some other tests on his urine that came back normal and they cultured the urine looking for an infection. Negative on all counts. At this point, Brick's urine output returned to normal and my vet said "let's check another sample in a few weeks". I went back like a month later with a new sample and the sg was 1.045. Awesome. My vet really doesn't have an answer on why this happened. Maybe a bug, maybe stress, maybe the heat. We decided to check his urine on a regular basis. Maybe once a year or every 6 months. |
| thanks for the help. we are going to keep checking his urine on a regular basis now. we keep playing phone tag with our vet. she did mention to culture his urine as well.. i really don't think it's necessary since his blood work came back fine? although i am awaiting her phone call to discuss this further. |
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