 Pixie is wheezing, sneezing, coughing. what to do for allergies?
had to take little pixie in to see her dr last night. poor little baby has been wheezing on and off for about 2 days, sneezing during the day and coughing in the middle of the night while she's sleeping. her dr believes it is allergies.
she had the same thing going on last year at the exact same time shortly after i adopted her, but it was more severe with a lot more coughing. she was on antibiotics and cough tabs and it cleared up within a week or so. last year, they did a series of radiographs of her trachea and said that it looked "absolutely perfect." her dr looked back at those again last night and said the same thing, no narrowing in size, etc. i was very thankful to have that news, especially since she is such a tiny weighing barely 4 pounds and was a puppy mill rescue. also great news that her heart sounds wonderful too.
my dear little nika had terrible skin allergies, but i have never dealt with this kind of allergy. i'm guessing many of you have though, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. she is on 0.5cc of clavamox every 12 hours with a tiny amount of prednisone mixed in for anti inflammitory for 10 days. we started her meds last night when we got her back home.
is there anything else i could do to get her through this and make her more comfortable? should i pretty much expect this to happen every year around this time? i have a humidifier running in our bedroom very close to where pixie and i sleep so hopefully that does help her.
thanks for listening, i know you guys all understand the terrible feeling when one of your babies is not 100% well!!! |