Rickets?????
 I don't know if I spelled that right) I guess it has something to do with the dog growing to fast. He is 35 lbs. They gave him a calcium supplement. I told her I would check here to find out if anyone here has dealt with it before. Thanks, Stormi  |
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| Rickets. Now that's something I haven't thought about in a while. Calves, chicks, children, and even pups can get it. Giving calcium supplements does not sound like the correct treatment though. Let me go look that one up. Calcium and vitamin D shots are usually given together. If the dog is digesting fats correctly, an is eating a well rounded puppy chow, just a vitamin D shot should take care of it. And let the dog out in the sun some. Maybe this pup was weaned too early?
It leads to weak bones that give out under the animals. When the vitamin D absorbed then the Calcium uptake is resumed. Giving excessive amounts of calcium would not be called for usually. They add vitamin D to our milk to make sure children don't get rickets, now that we skim most of the fat off of our milk. Sources of vitamin D, besides from your local vitamin shelf in a store near you, would be in high fat milk, cream, and milk broducts, fish oils, and various fish and animal fats. Actually the pup itself could/should produce it own vitamin D after the intial shot is given to correct the deficiency, unless it is having trouble absorbng fats or the food you are feeding is being proccessed at too high a temp. Switching foods to a large breed puppy chow may be a wise course of action also. Our bodies actually produce the vitamin once sunlight hits our skin and turns varius vitamin B's and protiens into vitamin D which is then used by our system to help build bones. I hope the Rotweiller is feeling better? |
| enlight me...what are rickets?....growing pains? like the ones I got as a child for growing to fast and my bones didn`t catch up until a bit later and my knees and elbows hurt?
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| Rickets is a disease in which the bones fail to calcify properly due to a vitamin D deficiency or due to poor digestion of fats. Since the bones are weak, the animal usually cannot stand on them (it looks like they are standing on their knees) and is in extreme pain when it tries. In very bad cases, the bones break and splinter.
If you do a web search you will find several sites that cover this disease. Growing pains can be caused by many things, including vitamin and mineral deficiencies. They can also be caused by over exertion of a newly formed bone or muscle, which is common in all growing young. Being deficient in vitamin D or the B complexes usually only occurs to animals which grow very fast and have been malnourished. It is seen in calves ALL of the time. Vitamin D can only exist as vitamin D in a fat. So it is not in your usual vitamin pills (which contain too little fat). A capsule or fat soluble vitamin can contain vitamin D -- read the label. When your skin is in sunlight it actually produces vitamin D for your body with vitamins and nutrients found in a normal diet. |
| Hello,
Agingright I really appreciate your response. I was able to pass that to my Mom and also tell her to search the web for more information. I think it never hurts to get more educated about what is going on, when it comes to our kids or pets health. They said he is up and walking so that sounds like good news. Thank you, Stormi |
| My gradfather use to run 200 head of cattle, among other things. Whenever a calve started having knocked knees or stated walking on the knees, out came this big syringe and the vitamin D.
When they started walking again, they are cured according to gramps (who has long since left this world). I think most would do a folow-up on their cattle and give them another injection in 3 months to be on the safe side. Farmers of the 1960's were an independent lot and folowed various shot "schedules" as they saw fit. Not sure how that is all handled in these modern times. I hope the dog continues his recuperation. Rotweillers, like all large breeds, do better with less weight in their puppy years. I think they find giving them some type of citrate and MSM and glucosamine helps also them later in life. Strange, but I have even read studies that advocate moderate exercise only, as they can injure themselves as they are growing. It is amazing what is out there on the web now. Some of it has to be taken with a grain of salt. Sort of like the human studies they release in the media. |
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