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today we're going to talk about dog
Cushing's disease
you Cushing's disease has several
symptoms that are associated with it
the most common ones are an increased
thirst increased urination
have a poor hair coat you'll see dogs
with that they're calling out are very
very thin hair
sometimes a pop out at parents increase
painting
increase restlessness and a lot of times
and increase appetite
and why these symptoms occurring when
Cushing's is directly cause by and
increase the
production of course all from the
adrenal gland
now adrenal glands are located right
near the kidneys
and sometimes you get a bit 9 growth on
the adrenal gland
that will produce a lot of cortisol &
Poor's all
has these affects on the on the body
and cause the symptoms or Zach in
also cause issues with the lever records
all is a start it's a natural steroid
and we need it
but in excess it can cause some
potential liver damage
and sometimes you're right now and may
pick up the Cushings
diagnosis based on some routine blood
work that's been done on your dog
now another where you can get increase
'cause obvious signs an adrenal gland
growth well is a growth on the pituitary
gland that Richard bland
is at the base of the brain and it
produces a hormone called
ACTH ACTH axe on the adrenal gland
to British corner shop so it's either
purchase trip to church a planned growth
or and a good green Oakland growth
that's causing the problem
how to read Agnes Cushing's disease we
diagnose Cushing's disease with that
Bridey tests my career that I uses
that dog comes in we give it
artificial ACTH the hormone that the
church are usually produces
and then we take a blood sample
our baseline sample give ACTH injection
then check a blood sample two hours
later
them both the samples were checking for
cortisol
if we get a huge rise in the cortisol
level
in the second sample then that gives us
a diagnosis of Cushing's disease
now they are some other on test that we
can use it
run called low-dose dexamethasone test
and one called the high-dose
Dec Samantha test sometimes these are
used to diagnose Cushing's
and sometimes these are used to
differentiate between they're doing a
brain growth
my and the pituitary growth well
how we treat Catchings generally we
treat Cushing's by giving medications
that can decrease
activity on the during a grand that some
medications out there like a decreased
action on a bitter clan as well
but generally that's how we treat it and
then we monitor
the progress with these diagnostic test
that we did before
they see th test for example to see if
the cortisol levels have been brought
back to normal and you should see
the symptoms resolve it throughout nasa
away at home you can
understand or whether or not your pet
has result that's intense in.