Enteritis, Lymphocytic - Plasmacytic

• Is idiopathic, but appears to be immune mediated.
  • Possibly food allergy.
    • Change of diet is a potential treatment.
      • Disease is often due to something present in the diet for some time, rather than something suddenly introduced.
  • Hypersensitivity to inhaled or ingested environmental allergens is another possible cause.

• Lymphocytic - plasmacytic enteritis is seen most commonly in the dog.
  • Is the most common inflammatory colonic disease of dogs.
  • Sometimes seen in the cat and horse.
• Affects the small intestine, sometimes quite extensively.
  • Produces chronic diarrhoea with lymphocytic or plasma cell (rather than macrophage) infiltration of the lamina propria.
  • Produces a severe protein losing enteropathy.
• Sometimes eosinophil infiltration is quite marked.
• Has a hereditary basis in the Basenji