A rescue dog from Northumberland nearly died after a random wound suddenly appeared on his body - but was saved by two blood transfusions. Teddy, a four-year-old crossbreed, developed a condition that stopped his blood from clotting.
The condition left him bleeding from a wound that suddenly appeared on his back and from his mouth and he started passing bloody diarrhoea. His owner Helen Edwards, who lives in Heddon-on-the-Wall, rushed Teddy to Westway Veterinary Group’s main hospital in West Road, Newcastle.
Teddy was admitted as an emergency during Westway’s out-of-hours service after vets found Teddy's blood was not clotting due to Immune Mediated Thrombocytopenia (IMTP). The condition causes the body’s immune system, which normally fights infection and disease, to damage and destroy its own platelets.
