I wanted to let you know that Tristan's condition did not change. There was a temporary improvement but then the diarrhea came back. I took him two days ago to the largest animal clinic in Greece. He stayed for 2 days and run every kind of tests there is. The results up to now show nothing. We are awating results for parasites. They run all tests available for parasites. And here is the ugly part. They have him under a treatment with cortizone (injections) for 3 days, 2 pills/day called tagamet and 2 pills/da called medrol. If he responds well in treatmetn the vet said that it will be an indirect confirmation that he is suffering from IBD. If he does not then they must take a piece of his small intestine for biopsy. The vet explained to me that IBD is a general term and the real cause of IBD can be a number of things. If he responds to the treatmetn it means that with a careful diet he will be just fine despite the IBD. If he does not then he most likely has a problem to a specific part of the intestine that cannot be treated. In that case the dig must be put doen cause he will die anyway. I really hope that we will manage to avoid the worst case scenario ant live together for many years.
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