Hello,
I think your vet means Panostitis eosinophilica. The dogs are showing pain when you press on the long bones of the legs (sorry, my English isn´t really good enough to describe it properly), you need an x-ray for the diagnosis. The x-rays show a typical bone structur of higher density patches in those bones, the theory is that the high density patches cause a compression of the little holes where the nutrificial ways go into the bone. The disease disappears when the dog stops its length growth, around one year. Till then you only can give drugs like Rimadyl, some people think Vit. C helps, that has not been verified yet. Normally it starts later than 11 weeks. Till now nobody really knows the reason for this disease.
There seems to be one dog in Germany with this problem, anyway it is not very common.
Regards Ina
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