Dogs with DM can acquire secondary problems resulting from the disease,
including urine retention, urinary tract infections, weight gain and muscle loss, skin lesions and bedsores.
Dogs with degenerative myelopathy can experience a number of secondary problems resulting from the disease,
including urine retention, urinary tract infections, weight gain and muscle loss from inactivity, skin lesions from incontinence, and bedsores as well.
Not exact matches
There are a number of reasons a dog might be suffering from cystitis and these
include a bacterial infection, injury to the bladder after an accident,
urine retention because of inherited bladder defects, stones or tumours, dehydration or vitamin A deficiency.
The causes of struvite stones
include extremely alkaline
urine (often from a biologically inappropriate diet), high steroid use, abnormal
retention of
urine, a urinary tract infection, or another disorder of the urinary tract.