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02-25-2009, 09:19 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Dallas, Tx, United States
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| Riley has Giardia!!! So I took her to the vet and her girardia test came back positive. I don't know how fatal this is or what. She's on some medication, but she interacts with all of my other animals and everyone who sees her just has to play with her. I'm going crazy! I'm really praying that we don't have an outbreak of girardia here as well as ringworm! Has anyone else's puppy had girardia? How did that turn out? |
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02-25-2009, 09:31 AM | #2 |
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| She should be fine now that she's on the medication. Just in case, you should be on the lookout for any signs from the other dogs who have been playing with her and you may want to keep her separated from them until she's finished her meds and has been rechecked. Also Giardia can also be passed to humans, so just make sure you wash your hands after handling her.
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02-25-2009, 09:59 AM | #5 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Marcel had it twice as a pup and was very sick from it. You should try to clean everything you can w/ bleach water as a dog will shed giardia cysts, even while on meds. So, reinfection is very possible unless you really clean as much as you can. With the meds, she should be fine.
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02-25-2009, 10:05 AM | #6 |
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| You can also ask you vet about a vaccination for it. It might be a good thing if you have multiple dogs. |
02-25-2009, 10:30 AM | #7 |
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| Both my babies had it when we first got them. . .they didn't have the diarrea, but they were pooping several times a day . . you can tell by the color, smell and greasiness of the poop. The poop was very dark, greasy looking and OMG stunk to high heaven. For Brody it took a couple different meds to clear it. For Rhianna it was just that one medication that completely wiped it out altogether. Since Rhianna was the one who brought it back into the house, Brody also had to have another round of the meds . . .But, they have both been clear of it since December 31st. While I don't believe it to be fatal, it is catchy . . you would most definitely have to clean every thing in your home, carpets, tile, etc . . .Another thing I do is wash their food dishes/water dishes out daily with very warm soapy water . . .and also keep your hands washed and disinfected. You should find that after the week of meds, when they re-test in 3 weeks, it should of cleared, just make sure you get all the meds into your puppy and finish out the medication . . . . .did they give you a liquid or pill? The liquid was better for mine.
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02-25-2009, 02:29 PM | #8 |
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| Giardia is far from fatal if you take care of it properly. The meds do work, though sometimes if your dog has it badly enough it can take a couple rounds of meds to clear it up. Also, if your dog (or any of your other dogs) eat ANY poop from the infected dog, they will likely also catch giardia. This includes if the infected dog licks his butt clean and there's a tiny bit of poop on the hairs around his bum, or if anyone tracks in a little poop and it's licked off of a paw or the floor. My pup had giardia, and to get rid of it we washed his bum with baby shampoo after every poop and picked up his poops right after he did his business, then poured a 20% bleach solution on the spot where the poop was. It only took a couple rounds of meds for us to get rid of the giardia, but it was a lot of work on our parts to keep everything clean so that he would not reinfect himself. Also, giardia is super small and hard to see under a microscope and may or may not show up in every stool, so it is possible to get a false negative test back from your vet. And like someone else said, this is a parasite that humans can get from their dogs. So wash your hands often, and after every time you clean up poop or clean off your dog's bum. Good luck, and I'm sure you'll get rid of it if you're dilligent enough about keeping the poo cleaned up and your dogs from ingesting any poo. I'm sure it would be more difficult with multiple dogs, so you may want to separate the infected one until he is no longer pooping infected poops. Lauren & Nikko |
03-13-2009, 04:07 AM | #9 |
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| update!!! So we just moved and haven't had the internet in about a week. I'm terribly sorry. Anyways, Riley was given all of her medicine and taken back to the vet. I told them that she wasn't having any diarrhea and there wasn't any blood in her stool that we know of. So she was given some vaccines (including her 2nd parvo shot and a giardia vaccine), and up until tonight she's been a happy and healthy puppy. We have however seen some blood in her stool. There wasn't any diarrhea, but there was still a bit of blood. I don't know if that was because of the vaccine or if she still has it. I'm not sure. Anyways, monday she is going to the vet and hopefully everything will get sorted out. Thanks to everyone who has been concerned about my little angel |
03-13-2009, 04:11 AM | #10 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Sorry to hear about your baby. I am glad she is going back to the vet to check on the blood again. My Cali just got over HGE with bloody diahrea and now is back to diahrea so I need to get her back to the vet too.
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