Pano Pano is known as Wandering Lameness or Eosinophilic Panosteitis, and is due to rapid growth.... and it also happens in fast growing children, particularly males. Pano is a self-limiting disease and will have spontaneous recovery in time. If left too long without a change in diet to reduce the pain there will be muscle wasting, something we want to avoid. The age for this condition can be from 6-14 months in large and giant breeds, with most cases seen from 9-12 months. We fix this problem by assessing the feeding program you are currently on, then make recommendations for changes to help the support of your dogs developmental growth. This may involve a change in brand and amount of food and will mean some supplements to rebalance the system so the growth patterns are slow and even. Pano or Panosteitis is the least threatening of the developmental orthopedic diseases. Pano is due to excessive growth rate which effects the long bones of the legs and often switches legs from day to day. This is from consuming too many calories than is actually needed by the body, or eating a diet with poor quality minerals, a mineral imbalance or lacking micro minerals. We can stop this condition quicker by slowing the growth rate with an appropriate quality food in measured amounts, adding MSM-Nutritioinal Sulfur to the diet to help with malabsorption issues, and Dietary Enzymes to help with inflammation. Please do not use Rimadyl or Deramaxx . They are fragile enough without compromising their liver functions.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:11:34 +0000