Hematuria: Causes & Treatments
Because finding blood in your dog’s urine is so distressing, we’ve looked at all the tests used to diagnose it, the causes of bleeding from every contributing tissue (kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra), poisons, genetic predisposition that leads to hematuria after exercise, and prostatic problems that can cause blood to drip from the urethra as though it is coming from the bladder or urine.
To summarize, a list of possible causes of hematuria and possible treatments:
Ten of the possible causes of hematuria:
- Bleeding problems: thrombocytopenia Warfarin poisoning, hemophilia
- Cancer: benign or malignant
- Clots in the kidney: renal infarcts due to white blood cells, casts and protein or DIC
- Infection: Leptospirosis, E. coli
- kidney congestion
- Medications: cyclophosphamide, NSAIDs
- Parasites: Capillaria and Dirofilaria immitis
- Stones
- Strenuous exercise
- Trauma
Treatments and supplements recommended for hematuria
- antioxidants
- anti-inflammatories,
- glucosamine-containing products
- antibiotics
- urinary acidifiers, and
- urinary alkalinizers.
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