any help on cough or bronchitis?????
 

just would like to ask if theres anyone here whose dog has suffered with trachea probs ? my yorkie has had a cough on/off since we had him every winter its worse but this winter as been worse than ever for him hes visited the vets, in fact i have taken him to see 4 different vets each time getting different answers.
the first time i was told its an allergy 2nd time its trachea problems the third time i was told it bronchitis and last time its the central heating in my house ?? so as you can see i feel a bit angry the one vet said they would not do an xray as he his about 14 even though hes fit in all other ways and the last vet said they would like to xray to see what the problem was.
sometimes when he first gets up of a morning after being asleep he coughs when he gets exceited he coughs but when hes out walking he will never cough.
the vets put him on steroids and water tablets and a bronchilater tablet which i gave him for a while and they helped but i do not want him on steroids all the time so i took him off them and some days he hardly coughs at all some days he coughs quite a bit, it does not bother him in anyway and his gums never go blue at all as if hes fighting for breath or anything, i have done lots of research on the net and also rang yorkie rescue and it seems to come back to trachea as its a dry cough and sometimes sounds like the goose honk.
can anyone relate to the problems i am having at all????
i would be very very gratefull if someone can help me with this any advice is very much appreciated....

thanx for nothing.....
i presume no one wants to answer me i have noticed that the smae sort of questions get answered but for some reason my question has not had any replies?????

No one is ignoring your post. Sometimes they get buried down due to the turn over on posts.

Not sure what to recommend for your baby. Just do a search on coughs and see what has been recommended and what has worked for others.

Good luck.

Sorry your post got buried but I see it now.
You said you had central heating, is that electric?
1. If so electric can be very dry causing a human to cough, I know because
that's what I have. You can get a humidifier to add moisture to the air.

2. I am sorry your getting the run around by the vet's but don't you
have one that you use all the time? It's difficult when you go from one
to the other. If the medicine is not working I would go back to the vet
who gave you the meds and tell him that.

3. If you think it allergy related take him off his current food and start
with something that is a very high quality. No corn or fillers or animal
by products. Human grade only. Start with only one protien in the food.
Such as fish, chicken or lamb. If he still coughs I would think your vet
is your best bet. Wish I could be of more help but I use my vet for these
things.
Hope your baby is better real soon. Poor thing.