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Pretty sure my 7.5 month old has collapsing tranchea.. George is 7.5 months now and has been have the odd "goose honking" cough now and then for the past 4 days and making choking noises and now he always has a white discharge from his eyes. Allergies? He is eating fine and his energy level is normal. I'll bring him to the vet this week... Any advice? :confused: |
If his eyes are gunky too it could be just allergies. I have 2 that do the backwards sneezing pretty bad in the spring & fall & 1 gets gunky eyes & the other gets watery eyes & with both it's simply seasonal allergies. They also do it when there are wildfires near us & the air is full of smoke. Ask your vet to prescribe some allergy med for the times of yr when you notice it's bad. |
Video tape the sessions for the vet and good luck. It may not be that. When Tibbe has been chewing rawhide toys and such or when he has esophageal irritation from too much stomach acid, upset tummy and the one time he had pneumonia, he has reverse sneezing and using Pepcid, dosage tittered to his size, for a while calms it right down. And in the case of the pneumonia, antibiotics. Of course, he no longer gets rawhide chews etc. now that I know that they seem to cause this throat irritation. I pray it's really not the CT but something lesser. Keep us posted. |
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My boy has a damaged trachea, but at one time also had kennel cough. We treated the kennel cough and now just have his regular coughing. It may be worth treating for kennel cough? My vet checked for the damaged trachea by just pressing it. they are able to tell you quickly whether it is the problem. |
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" If it makes these sounds when excited or after eating or drinking, or turns her elbows outward and extends its neck and gasps inward with a rhythmic snork! snork! snork!, this is reverse sneezing. If it breathes through the mouth sometimes, or breathes with a raspy sound, or coughs reflexively when you simply rub its throat, it could have a collapsing trachea. If the cough is one or two expulsive outward bursts (forcing air through the trachea to open it), typically with a gag or empty retch at the end, she could have a collapsing trachea.The most common clinical sign of collapsing trachea is a chronic cough. It is often described as dry and harsh and can become quite pronounced. The term "goose honk" is often used to describe it. Coughing is often worse in the daytime and much less at night. The cough may also begin due to excitement, pressure on the trachea (from a leash), or from drinking water or eating." ~ VetMed It was my understanding you could tell a collapsing trachea from reverse sneezing, simply by gently rubbing the throat....with a collapsing trachea, this will illicite the cough reflex... |
Sounds like reversed sneezing from what you are describing... totally harmless. But I'd ask the vet. :) |
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