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.
- Change of diet is a potential treatment.
- Hypersensitivity to inhaled or ingested environmental allergens is another possible cause.
- Possibly food allergy.
- 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