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Originally Posted by Kaytlynsmom  Ok, I took my sweet happy healthy baby to the vet on April 27th to get her bordetella because the July long weekend she will be going to a kennel while I'm on holidays. On May 3rd at bedtime when we cuddled up for the night she starting "coughing up a furball" as my husband put it. Nothing ever came out and she eventually calmed down while I lightly rubbed her neck. Two nights later she started coughing again, this time until a glob of a yukky egg white texture clear goo came up. Needless to say, I researched it and it sounds just like kennel cough. She just had another episode now.
My question is..... can the vaccine give the symptons? Can she get if she's had the vaccine? What is done for Kennel cough? I called her vet and they told me to bring her in tommorrow morning, but I just shelled out big bucks last week for all her shots and heart worm and the bordetella and if its not neccessary to go back, I'd like to save a trip. (of course I WILL take her if neccessary) |
Yes they can get it from the vaccination and often in Yorkies that's what happens. Yes they can also get a different strain that might go around than the one covered by the bordetella. It is a virus and just as in human flus you can get a different type even if you had your flu shot.
Yes, it can sometimes be dangerous if a secondary infection happens.
Treatment for kennel cough, I usually just do vicks vaporub steams three times a day. A little cough medicine BEnelyn, will help too.
Your Vet should perhaps listen to the chest and lungs to be sure it isn't going into pneumonia.
Unfortunately boarding kennels require this. Too bad you don't know someone that can take your Yorkie when you are away instead of a boarding kennel.
Also, from what you said of what you all had done, that was a little too much at once for a little yorkie. It would have been better if you could do the other vacc's a few weeks before, do heartworm a week or so later, then bordetella. Doing everything at once is pretty hard on the immune system in one go, I don't recommend doing that if possible.