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Originally Posted by blykmyk44 We recently purchased a Yorkie puppy (three weeks ago) and after about 5 days with us he came down with a mild cough and we took him to the vet who said he had a very mild case of Kennel Cough and perscribed some Amoxicilin. After a week of the medicine we had realized that the cough was not really going away (however he was showing no other signs of illness at all) and so we took him to the vet again and the vet suggested that we give him a Tracheal Wash to see if he had some sort of virus. We agreed and took him to vet for the procedure.
Immediately after the procedure the he became seriously ill and could not breath on his own. He was then transferred to emergency care where they diagnossed that he had Pneumonia. That was 4 days ago and now the emergency care staff has said we need to make "the decision" on what we are going to do since he is showing little improvement.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so could it be something other than Pneumonia? I asked the people at the Emergency Center if the Tracheal Wash could have something to do with this completely immediate change in our dog but they don't really seem to think that is much of an option. To me (obviously not an expert) if a dog suddenly changes to the worse after a surgery the surgery would have had something to do with it.
Any help would be great (as soon as possible) since we are really at the breaking point and don't want to lose our little pupp =( |
Bella came down with kennel cough about a week after we got her, it got really bad and she was on antibiotics for 3 weeks (not amocicillan), she was on Clavamox......We also gave her cough syrup........After 3 weeks the vet did blood tests and said the infection was gone but she was still coughing. She said it can take up to a couple months AFTER the infection was gone before the cough would end.
About 1 1/2 months later Bella was fine. She had been healthy from the cough now for a few weeks, it seemed like it took forever but it did eventually go away!
Maybe they could try a different medicine? Bella never had the trachea wash