Also, make people take their shoes off at the door-it can be brought in on shoes. Make them wash their hands before handling bevo or bryleigh and especially after picking up any waste products. Your yard will need to be bleached as well, the dogs have gone to the bathroom there and since the virus lives in the feces, they can pick it up from feces on the ground as well as soil.
Talk to your vet about probiotics if/when they're giving antibiotics. Also see what his white blood cell count is. The higher the better for fighting off infections. If it gets too low, you might want to consider a transfusion. Dogs rarely die from the parvovirus itself, they die from the sepsis of the virus eating through their intestines and spilling waste into their body. The antibiotics will help fight this. If they don't have him on one, he needs it now...before it's worse. IV fluids are a must, as well as glucose, so his sugar doesn't drop. If he spikes a fever, his IV needs to be run through cold water to help lower it. Fever means infection and infection is bad!!
When it came time for Noah to start back on food, we got plain chicken baby food. Beechnut brand and spoon fed him. He wouldn't eat what they left in his bowl. I put him in a towel and put him in my shirt and talked to him and held him and did "skin to skin" contact. It does wonders for NICU babies. See if your vet will allow it. I can't say it works 100%, but it can't hurt.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. I'll give you my number and can talk. Denise can vouch for me that I'm not a crazy lunatic lol.
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