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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  Coccidia is in the dirt and most dogs actually have this in their intestines....the immune systems in older/adult dogs usually keep this from flaring up. Stress is a great precipitator and will cause a dog or puppy to "break" with coccidia....usually, anytime you have a pup for a week and you start to see diarrhea with blood tinged mucus in it, that pup is "breaking" with coccidia from the stress it is experiencing with new home, new people, gone siblings and no momma, etc.......usual treatment is Albon along with Amoxicillin and Flagyl. Cody is a rescue, so he more than likely picked this up long before you ever got him and it is dormant in his intestine. I do NOT think it is transmitted to humans...I do not remember anything in any literature I have about coccidia, that humans can get it. |
Everything Yorkiemom1 said. The only other thing I would add is, that to my knowledge, coccidia can't be seen with the naked eye (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) so I'm not sure what the white things were that you seen. I'm a vet assistant so I see a lot of poop every day.
Looking at fecal floats and smears under the microscope is part of my job and I've never seen coccidia by just looking at the sample, I've only ever seen it under the microscope.