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08-31-2014, 04:32 PM | #16 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: massachusetts
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| My puppy will do it when drinking water or sometimes when playing hard or barks |
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08-31-2014, 04:59 PM | #17 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Fayetteville, NC, USA
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| My dog coughs, but not all the time. just randomly now and then. Sometimes after drinking water, sometimes playing whatever.I have never worried about it. now if she did it all the time constantly through the day I guess I would be, just like if my kid does. but just the occasional cough no. I mean heck people cough randomly liketaht to often, and no one worries about that....lol |
08-31-2014, 05:02 PM | #18 | |
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The trachea issue is one reason we are warned to use a harness, not a collar and try to avoid pulling. | |
08-31-2014, 05:58 PM | #19 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Ohio
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| I work as a vet assistant. From what I understand from listening to our vets talking to clients, allergies are a lot less common in really young dogs but it definitely is possible. I'll ask the obvious question. Is your pup on a good flea prevention and applied monthly? Dogs with flea allergies can go absolutely crazy itching with very minimal fleas. That wouldn't have anything to do with the cough though. Have any of the vets that you have been to, recommended xrays. Collapsing trachea can usually be seen on an xray. If not, I would ask for some. Good luck. |
09-01-2014, 03:30 AM | #20 |
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| Thanks everyone who responded. Let all keep helping. Would love more responses!! Come on don't be shy. I know some people don't like to respond. |
09-01-2014, 08:29 AM | #21 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: E.Stroudsburg, Pa.
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| I started my thread on CT because of all that I read about this coughing business. Normally if any of my dogs just coughed on occasion I never paid no mind to it. Since joining YT I have read so much about coughing turning into CT. The last few weeks Cody coughed, not everyday and not a constant cough, and coughs always had a diff. sound one day he coughed for a few seconds, that caused concern. I had an appointment for the 29th to bring Cody in for allergies, I did the limited ingredients dog food with venison for a couple of months, still scratching, so it has to be environmental, since I had the appointment I was going to bring up to my vet about the coughing, but I had also read coughing can come from allergies. Mindy10 thread she wrote her vet pinched her pups throat, pup coughed, vet said CT. My thread was what other testing could be done to determine CT besides pinching their throat. ladyjane gave the answer, very clear. I would not have taken Cody to the vet for a few coughs, but since I was going why not ask,and I did. 7 days before the appointment Cody refused to eat his dry kibble that he LOVES. Cody is not a picky eater, he does not like moist kibbles, he LOVES dry kibbles. Cody did not eat for one day, so I thought he was tired of the venison, so I got him a bag of Bison and also got boneless chicken cutlets just in case. I offered him the Bison dry food, he refused. I cooked the chic.cutlets, if he refused the chicken then I would know he was sick and off to ER we would go. I gave him the chic. he ate it, ok not sick,I shredded up the chic and mixed it in the dry food, he ate the chic but not the kibbles. Ok, I took the kibbles soaked it in chic broth, mixed in a bit of shredded chic he ate it in a blink of the eye. I feed him the moist kibbles thinking it has to be a tooth or teeth issue. For the rest of the week until my appointment I feed him moist kibble with shredded chic.. At the vet I told her all the above, and feeding him the limited ingredients dog food. She checked his teeth, said his teeth are fine, I said there has to be something that he is refusing to eat his kibbles. What I saw my vet do was, she took her left arm, placed it under him on his chest behind his front legs, she pushed up on his chest, at the same time she kinda pinched / squeezed his throat, causing him to cough, I said that’s the sound he makes most of the time when he coughs. She said it’s not CT, she said he has nasal drip that is irritating his throat, that’s why he’s not eating the dry food, it scratches his throat causing him pain, the moist food doesn’t. She said the cough is from the allergies. She gave him an injection of Apoguel for immediate relief of the itching until the pills kicked in. He was given Apoquel to treat the nasal drip to be given for 14 days and Cetirizine for the allergies. In a nut shell lol, all coughs do not necessarily mean CT, they can be allergy related.
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09-06-2014, 05:17 PM | #22 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Toluca Lake, CA
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| I agree with matese as we just got back from the Vets. Buster started backing away from his wet food and treats and although he would eat his kibble he was not enthusiastic. That for Buster is a big deal, he loves food. He also has been biting his rear, underarms, and paws, rubbing his face and dragging his stomach. I also noticed he had a stuffy nose and more occurences of reverse sneezing and a slight darkening to his belly skin. The Vet diagnosed him with flea dermatitis and allergies. He also has swollen lymph glands. She said he was backing away from his food because he was nauseous and gave him a shot of Convenia and Cerenia pills for the nasea. She has prescribed Prednisone for the swollen lymph glands. She said the swelling was causing the the stuffy nose and the increase in reverse sneezing. I am doing the Comprehensive Plus Allergy panel (110 allergies) and a special Diet food allergy panel with 11 ingredients found in premium and holistic diets. That way I will know what is causing him issues rather than trying to figure it out by diet because he just has been miserable. I have reservations about the flea & heartworm treatment she recommended and that I bought as it is Triflexis and from what I am reading I don't think that is what I want to use. I do have to find something as he is really allergic to flea bites and I think I might be washing off the Frontline Plus I was using. I too worried that it was CT or aspiration pneumonia but it seems to be more due to allergies.
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09-06-2014, 05:34 PM | #24 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Toluca Lake, CA
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| Not much of a cough more reverse sneezing and the stuffy nose but not everyone reacts to allergies the same way. Some may have itching skin, stuffy nose, or coughing. I know I do as I get bad post nasal drip with a irritated throat and an upset stomach from my allergies. It might be whether the allergies are ingested > food or inhaled>environmental or rolled in as Buster loves to do.
__________________ CarolynBuster Brown "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything." |
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