Keratoconjunctivitis sicca and diabetes mellitus in a dog.

J Am Vet Med Assoc

Departamento de Medicina y Sanidad Animal, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.

Published: June 1992

Diabetes mellitus and keratoconjunctivitis sicca were diagnosed in a female Poodle. The dog was treated for diabetes and keratoconjunctivitis sicca until blood glucose concentrations were within normal limits. Treatment for keratoconjunctivitis sicca was suspended then, and signs of this disorder did not appear again. Most of the factors known to predispose to keratoconjunctivitis sicca were not applicable to this dog. On the basis of observations made in this dog, we suggest that diabetes mellitus and keratoconjunctivitis sicca may be linked. Clinical signs of the disorders developed simultaneously and resolved when diabetes mellitus was controlled with insulin.

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