kennel cough

[lilpip1234 62]

anyone had experience with this one of my lurchers has caught it got all the antibiotics and stuff from vets but they never said how long it'll take to clear wondering if anyone whos had experience of this could help

[TOPPER 1,809]

foget the vet mate just get some benylin cough med and give the dog a couple of spoonfuls everyday morning and night couple of days it will be gone

[sandymere 8,263]

Please note I'm not a vet and so the advice is from a laymans prospective and anyone not familiar with Kennel cough should seek a vets advice at the earliest opportunity, there are a number of problems that have a similar presentation but more serious outcomes.

 

Kennel cough (tracheobronchitis).

 

Kennel cough is a term used to describe a broad spectrum of infections of the upper airways of dogs much as a common cold is in humans. In the majority of cases in a healthy adult dog these easily caught and spread infections will settle in their own time. A warm bed, good food and rest are the best treatment with perhaps the addition of a simple linctus type cough medicine. Not every dog coming into contact with an infected animal will become symptomatic but infection risk is increased if an animal is stressed i.e. in boarding kennels etc in a similar way to a human catching a cold when theyre a little run down.

 

Dogs may become infected but not obviously symptomatic in that they do not get a cough but may have inflamed airways and so need recovery time also will they will be infectious to others, so if one dog becomes infected its worth treating your others as having it and give all appropriate rest and recuperation etc. The infection can be passed for up to a couple of months after a case but is at its most infectious whilst an animal is actively coughing. The commonest symptoms are the presence a hacking cough culminating in retching that may produce a little foam, fluid and is often exacerbated with exercise and may present anywhere from a couple of days to weeks after exposure. In the cases of some of causative bacteria they may last for some time in the environment, especially in damp conditions, ready to case infection to any dog coming into contact.

 

There are inoculations, nasal or injection, against this but they are not full proof as they do not give resistance to all of the viruses, bacteria that can cause it and may reduce symptoms rather than stop infection. Antibiotics may be prescribed if things dont settle but in the majority of cases of simple Kennel cough they should not be required but rather used if secondary more serious infection follows leading to pneumonia. In most cases symptoms settle in a week or two but if the cough is getting worse rather than better then see a vet.

Regards sandymere.

Edited July 1, 2011 by sandymere

[paulus 26]

as said benylin works

[Moll. 1,793]

Kennel cough as Sandy quoted can come in all different forms and all dogs will react differently. TBH the vet has probably just prescribed AB's to give you piece of mind, the cough is usually viral so AB's wont make any difference.

Got it here when a terrier came in from a pound, did not hit all of the dogs, the ones it did they had the cough for about a week if memory serves, i treated with a child's soothing cough medicine. The older lurcher bitch it did hit hard and she ended up in the vets with severe pneumonia it was touch and go.

[lilpip1234 62]

cheers for the advice folks much appreciated took him to the vets as i thought it was a lodged bone or something vet jabbed him and gave the bios will try the benylin as well got him separate from the others dogs too

[Bootsha 1,306]

A mate of mine owned and hunted his own pack of hounds. They got it somehow, and he was told about the Benylin. He went to the local chemist and bought every bottle off the shelves and dosed every hound with it day and night. It stopped the kennel cough, no rhyme nor reason, but it stopped the kennel cough, so Benylin does work, as proven from practical experience.

 

ATB

[mudd dog 128]

benylin does work well though some antibi's don't go astray along with it just to clear it up.

[lilpip1234 62]

cheers for the help folks using benylin along with anti bios vast improvement already much appreciated

[stabba 10,745]

Do be prepared for it to go through your kennels like shit through a goose though