SPECIES: dog
BREED: mixed breed
SEX: Mc
AGE: 10 years old
NAME: Billy
Clinical case
- Taken to the clinic for contact with processionary moth three days earlier;
- Halitosis, sialorrhoea, inability to take solid food and liquids;
Clinical evaluation
- Extensive necrotic areas on the tongue
- Excoriation on the tip of the truffle
- Diagnosis: tongue necrosis by processionary moths
Therapy
- Surgical debridment, partial glossectomy
- Antibiotic therapy (metronidazole + spiramycin) in non-therapeutic dosage due to administration error by owner
- IM corticosteroid therapy in single administration
- MLS® Laser Therapy: «tongue ulcer" programme in point-to-point and scanning mode and "contaminated wound" with 10% intensity in point-to-point mode. Treatment frequency: daily for two applications then after 5 days.
Results
Fast pain resolution from the first session with no sialorrhoea and resumption of spontaneous feeding
Courtesy of Rosangela Bontempo DVM, Ambulatorio Bontempo – Terme Vigliatore (Messina), Italy