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07-08-2012, 04:32 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Marble Hill, MO USA
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| Mini-Yorkie Trachea Questions My 3 lb. 3 yo mini-Yorkie has a soft trachea, which causes her to cough and hack even when she drinks water too fast. The other night she tried swallowing a sweet pea whole and I didn't know it until about five hours later when she coughed it up. I had her sedated a couple of months ago to have her teeth cleaned and she hacked and coughed for about a month afterwards since the vet had intubated her to give her anesthesia. I asked the vet to make a note in her file that the dog should not be intubated and the vet said that this may keep her from being operated on. I want this dog's teeth to be as clean as possible to avoid heart problems down the road. She has to eat hard biskies (which she likes) but here are my questions: (1) How do I keep her teeth clean? and (2) What alternatives are there to intubation? Thanks. |
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07-09-2012, 06:58 AM | #2 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| I am doing an experiment with 3 different water additives on my 3 dogs that I do not want sedated for dentals for whatever reasons. So, to answer your first question, use water additive, feed hard kibble, and brush teeth using the enzyme toothpaste for dogs PLUS a Soni-Care electric tooth brush. Alternatives to Intubation: with a tiny little dog, giving any IV sedation is really dangerous....Propofol is easily metabolized by Yorkies, and it is quickly excreted, but Lordy, you have got to have a vet that can titrate the very tiny amount you would need to infuse, to keep the baby lightly sedated enough to do a dental, without over sedating her...and you need to have intubation on standby, because respiratory rate will be the first to go if they give too much, to quickly.... The beauty with Propofol is , when you quit infusing it, the patient begins to wake up....so unlike unreversed gas anesthesia, they dont lay unconscious or sleeping for any length of time....after a minute or two, they begin to come up from it. But if the vet is not careful, very attentive, or up on his calculations/titrations, it can be very dangerous....just ask Michael Jackson what unsupervised infusion of Propofol can do to you. |
07-09-2012, 10:09 AM | #3 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Marble Hill, MO USA
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