Gooday, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast.

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But joining Brian and myself in the studio, we have Dr. Artie Kathrani, who's one of our senior

lecturers here in Internal Medicine, and we thought we'd chat to Artie about approach to diarrhea.

So thank you very much, Artie, for joining us. Thank you. Good.

And thank you, we've had a bit of a hiatus, you see, over summer. Not, you know, not intentional,

but it happened. One of those things. So hopefully people will be infused by a new series of the podcast.

So thank you very much.

So as far as if you're talking about generics as the approach to diarrhea,

should we start with maybe acute presentation of dogs

and how you would think about that conceptually, please?

Sure, so I guess an acute case of diarrhea in dogs in general practice.

So we would define acute in dogs as less than about three weeks of diarrhea.

And I think with acute cases, we want to focus the history more so on if there's been any changes in the diet, have the owners changed the diet.

We also want to get a really good diet history to make sure that the owners haven't been feeding raw food, whether there could be something there that could have started the acute diarrhea.

We also want to get good vaccination history, and so the age of the animal is going to be

important if it's a puppy, we want to make sure we rule out parvovirus, so we want the vaccination

history. We want the deworming history as well. Are they up to date on their antelmintics? Is this a dog that scavenges? Does it get table food? Does it go out? Does it get access to things from the garbage? And we'd be concerned maybe about pancreatitis there or some kind of acute gastroenteritis episode. Also, we want to know about any in-contact animals.

If they have other dogs or cats in the house, have they developed gastrointestinal signs,

that potentially would suggest an infectious cause. Does the owner have any gastrointestinal

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