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03-31-2015, 03:35 PM | #1 |
Love My Girls Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Decatur, IL
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| Has anyone heard of blastomycosis? A friend of mine is a vet and she posted this on my Facebook page. it's scary stuff. I guess this time of year is especially dangerous. By Dr. Becker Blastomycosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis, an organism that grows in rotting wood and wet soil.Pets at Highest Risk for Blastomycosis The infection is seen most often in large breed male dogs, and especially in hunting dogs, sporting breeds, and dogs that spend a lot of time in environments where the Blastomyces organism exists. Female dogs are also susceptible, of course. And occasionally, cats also acquire the infection.Methods of Transmission The fungus releases airborne spores into the environment that can be inhaled by people and animals. This is the most frequent method of transmission, though the spores can also enter through the skin. In fact, just digging in the soil can release the spores. Once inhaled, the spores travel through the lungs and become large, thick-walled, yeast-like organisms that multiply within the lungs and other tissues of the body.Symptoms and Diagnosis Symptoms of blastomycosis infection in dogs include loss of appetite, fever, weight loss, depression, inflammation of the iris of the eye and discharge from the eyes as well, coughing, wheezing, and pus-filled skin lesions. More serious symptoms can include sudden blindness, lameness, inflammation of the testicles, enlarged lymph nodes, and seizures.Treatment Options Traditional treatment for a blastomycosis infection is oral administration of an antifungal drug. These medications all require long-term treatment, sometimes for many months. They are very expensive. And of course, all of them carry serious potential side effects.
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04-01-2015, 04:30 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Very interesting...thanks for posting this.
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04-03-2015, 08:33 AM | #3 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | I am familiar with this. Uno - Magics sire died from this fungal infection. It took awhile to properly diagnose the condition and the drug that is indicated is not a commonly stocked one. The vet had to order it in from the USA. Unfortunately he died in the car on the way to the vets for treatment. He had a breathing crisis - btw he was seeing the vet almost daily for about one week! A necropsy was done to confirm diagnosis. He was not quite 4yrs old. The last show he was in was at Westminster so Feb 14th - He first displayed symptoms about 2wks after returning home. It is possible he actually contracted the organism in New York - how-ever he lived on a farm property and it is also quite possible he contracted on his own home turf. None of his pack came down with this fungus and that at the time would have been about 4 other Blackies. And they do not live close to a body of water. How-ever he contracted it - it is a very serious disease. I write this as a few of our members either live close to water bodies - or like hike and swim with our dogs in the summer months. Toronto folks who frequent our lakeside parks and just other residents of Ontario which has a multiplicity of lakes be alert.
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04-03-2015, 09:04 AM | #4 |
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| My friend, that is a vet, has had a few dogs come down with this and that is why she posted on Facebook. If someone has a dog that becomes ill with these symptoms, please ask your vet to test for this disease. It may save your dog's live.
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04-04-2015, 12:45 PM | #5 |
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04-05-2015, 04:44 AM | #6 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Oakland County MI
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| thank you for posting this info and thank you Gail for massaging me about it, we live on a lake and Lola loves to swim in it, our lake is deep and clean (we have it tested) but as you know just about anything can happen. I try to keep her from drinking the water and as soon as we finish swimming she gets rinsed off. But I am going to ask my vet if she has seen dogs with it and if it is prevalent in our area which is filled with small lakes. I will also keep a keen eye out for symptoms on a side note there are some of the most beautiful lakes in the country in Northern MI a few hours from us they are blue and like crystal, however there are often times when they have some type of bacteria that is awful, friends when up for a camping weekend and trailed their pontoon they anchored off the beach and swam in, by the end of the day any part of their body that had gotten wet was covered with red blistering sores that took over a week of misery to get rid of it. One of my doctors has a summer house up there and he said it depends on the wind and the geese, he has an outside shower and insists all his guests shower off after getting out the water and then they don't get swimmers itch, can you imagine living on a lake that has this problem off and on, and these are some of the most expensive lakes to live on in this country. So far cross my fingers I have not heard of this in lower MI. Thanks again for the heads up
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04-05-2015, 03:11 PM | #7 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | you are very welcome Donna
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