Vestibular disease is very distressing for the dog, and can cause not merely wobbly gait, but actual vomiting through excess giddiness. Nyastigmus, a very rapid eye movement caused by the dog trying to adjust for a moving horizon, often shows up before the wobbly gait and so acts as both an initial warning sign and a measure of the severity of the attack.
Vets have a number of medicines to call upon, but one we found very effective, "Stemetil", whilst in the literature is rarely called up, and our vet hadn't used it before or even heard of it. It is however a widely used treatment in humans with either vestibular problems or post general anaesthetic whirlygigs.
Recommended.
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Last edited by eugene molloy; 03/24/14 03:33 AM.
