Buster has collapsing trachea as well, there is surgery available...not sure if there are vets that specialize with this surgery in your area since its quite complicated but they essentially replace the cartilage rings that are weak and have collapsed with new artificial rings.
Also, my vet gave me some pills to give Buster for severe coughing attacks. Its called Vanectyl-P and 1/2 a tablet every 12 hours or as needed.
But otherwise, if the coughing isnt too bad my vet said its ok to give baby cough syrup to my yorkie. He advised me to find cough syrup for a newborn baby age 0-...pretty much find cough syrup that has the smallest age recommendation on it. I bought 2 one was a shoppers drug mart brand in grape flavor and the other was a homeopathic syrup and my vet approved both. The grape flavored one he told me to give 1ml(1cc) every 6 hours or as needed and the homeopathic one 1/2ml(1/2cc) every 4 hours or as needed. I was using those as directed every 4-6 hours for about 4-5 days and his coughing went away and got significantly better.
He does still cough when excited or if his throat is rubbed on something etc but much better than he was. I only have to use the cough syrup on rare occasion and usually at night.
Try and keep your yorkie calm..i know its sad but its best to have them coughing at little as possible because the coughing is very irritating to the throat and in the long run can worsen the collapsing trachea.
Good luck stay strong! |