Day 1. Feb 17, 2016. An 11-year-old Schnauzer had uncontrolled fever at Vet 1 Pt 1
Channel: Dr David Sing
Date: 21/02/2016

The dog was boarded from Feb 6 to 13, 2016 and had diarrhoea. 

This dog was ataxic (groogly), had diarrhoea and fever (over 40C). The kennel operator detected the fever and sent her to Vet 1 ("hospital) for the past 2 days from Feb 15-17, 2016. Vet 1 did liver and blood test. As the blood count was not low, Vet 1 did not check for Babesia (tick fever) and asked the owner's permission to do a blood smear for Babesia. 

As the dog was still having fever despite 2 days of hospitalisation, injections and IV drips, the owner decided to discharge the dog. She brought her to Toa Payoh Vets as I was the regular vet.

This video shows the dog on Feb 17, 2016 morning being examined by me. The dog was lethargic, unable to stand, panted fast and had a high fever (41C) as you can see in this video. 

The owner noticed a "bleeding" lump on the right nasal area and that the joints were "painful". The mucous membranes were not pale unlike dogs with tick fever.

 Vet 1 did not do tick fever test as the blood tests at she said that the blood counts were normal (no low blood cell count).

Blood test at Toa Payoh Vet on admission on Feb 17, showed low red cell count, low haemoglobin and very low platelet count. Yet the blood smear was POSITIVE (incorrectly stated in another video as negative). The blood was negative to Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Lyme and heartworm using the CaniV-4 test kit. 

The very low platelet count was seriously low at 10 (300-500 normal). Internal bleeding would kill the dog. Blood or platelet transfusion was advised by Dr Daniel.