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01-16-2006, 10:18 AM | #61 | |
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We were complete nervous wrecks but finally all was well.It took many vet visits,tests and different types of meds, but finally she recovered and is cough free ever since...... So try not to worry to much and keep up the treatments. Seems the nature of Kennel cough is to be so stubborn since so many of us here are/had the same problems clearing it up. Good luck.....
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01-20-2006, 07:48 AM | #62 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Maine
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| We have had our little girl for already a month. She just turned 4 months old. When we first got her, within 5 days she began this awful croup like cough. I called the breeder and they said it was just kennel cough and to give her Robitussin cough DM give or take .20 - .25 cc's. I gave her the drops and made chicken broth and a little rice. She was still very playful and nothing aside from her cough showed anything was wrong with her. She would not like the robitussin and it was a battle trying to give it to her. She was not getting any better so I took her to the vet and she said it was kennel cough and it was specific to the upper respiratory tract. Also she said that Spookie can be catching a cold. They gave me Doxycycline 30mL and I was told to give her .30 cc of that. It felt like for ever for her cough to go away before the antibiotic and the robitussin did anything. 12 days passed before her cough and cold related symptoms were gone. I would not only give her the medications, but I would give her chicken broth with her regular food, just so she could have something warm as her meals. I would do vapor baths or steam baths for her and keep her there for 15 - 20 minutes. I would put a sweater on afterwards and bring her right to bed and apply a very small amount of vaporub on her chest. Eventually all the hard work and TLC payed off. Amazingly enough all this happened in sunny Florida, and 2 weeks after that ordeal we had to move up to Maine and "knock on wood" she is doing well so far, but just in case I keep a warm sweater, chicken broth, the robitussin dm handy with me and the vaporub for any immedaite action that may be necessary. Bottome line is that weather its kennel cough or just a cold I am starting to realize that these little ones seem to catch the cough for quite sometime, but with great care it definitly will resolve nicely!!!! |
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