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emerald212 wrote:
I’m so glad she’s feeling better! Yay! Karly! Oh, sorry. She’s sleeping. Yay! Karly!
😛 That was cute!
oooh wow poor you! well, i have had lots of experience with this kind of thing!! my dogs, papillons, have some real allergy issues and the have reacted in a similar manner. two are allergic to their vaccinations( rabies and 5 in 1 booster) and they react anywhere from immediately after to 8 hours later with skin redness facial swelling, fever, glassy eyes ,etc. i now have to get them cortisone shots and benedryl before vaccinating and afterwards to keeps the reaction from getting dangerous. another pap of mine can handle her shots, but she is allergic to some bug bites, she had instant face swelling when bitten on the lip by a bug.
it is a horrifying thing as it looks horrible and your pet CAN die from it if you don’t act quickly… their throats will swell shut and the will suffocate. what saved me? benedryl! it is a must to have in the house when you have dogs, just in case something odd like that happens. in most cases a good dose of benedryl as soon as you notice swelling will either totally stop or hold off he reaction til you can race to the vet. it was a true lifesaver for me having it in the house, for sure my dogs would have died from their vaccines if i didn’t have it. the first time it happened it was midnight on a sunday and the 24 hour vet is an hour+ away… they started to choke and gasp and have labored breathing 7 minutes after i first noticed they started to swell! they never would have made it even half way to the vet. i recommend using the liquid benedryl as that is easier to get down a swelling throat than the pill type, especially if you have to cut the pill to give the right dose! a large dog you could give a pill to though so the don’t need syringes full of liquid! the magic doseage i believe is 1 mg of diphenhydramine ( benedryls active ingredient) to 1 pound of dog. so, a 12.5 mg dose ( the standard one teaspoon) would do about 12 pound dog. hope that helps and you are not alone! definitely keep some benedryl around the house in case it happens again unless your vet recommends otherwise. 🙂 i hope she is all back to normal soon! she should be!Glad to hear that your puppy is doing well. I haven’t had to much of a problem with my dogs. My one dog had a bladder infection once and it cost around $100 to take her to the vet.
You know what? Now my other dog (an american bulldog) has swelled up eyes and hives all along her body! Her name is Keely. She is fine in the fact that she wants to play and eat. I haven’t taken her to the vet yet. I decided to give her some Benadryl (1 mg per pound) and it has helped a little bit with the hives. I wonder if there is a bug lurking around here somewhere. I told KC that we should do something to get rid of the bugs. We do live by a lake, so we get a lot of them.
eaglefeather831 wrote:Awww…Thanks everybody!
PT-I did find a dead black bug on her thigh which seemed to be the cause of it since it was latched on to her pretty well. I pulled it off which hurt her, but she seemed grateful. Thanks for the prayers! It’s quite intriguing how you prayed for her! It must have worked because her swelling is down. It’s almost back to normal!
I will keep the baby benadryl in mind for if this happens again!
Karly says thanks for the support and advice! 😉
Ok, well I say thank you! Karly is just sleeping. zzzz….
Im glad that you found a little culprit and took care of it. And Im glad the Benadryl has helped take care of the swelling and that she is well on her way to recovery! Keep us further posted for when she is 100% again.Let’s see, my dog Holly was a walking accident. On our first wedding anniversary she climbed the fence, and got herself over it, but one back leg went through the chain link, so when her body went over, it snapped the thighbone clean in half. $600 vet bill and 3 months in a cast. She was 2 years old.
Then when she was about 6 years old, she ate the husks off of several walnuts, to get the walnuts of course, and managed to poison herself. Walnut husks when they are mildewing tend to produce a strichnine-like substance, so she was pretty sick. $250 vet bill.
When she was about 8 years old or so, she tangled with something venomous, a bee or something, face swelled up just like your Karly, cheaper vet bill, just got her some Benadryl and waited to see if it helped, it did.
When she was 11 years old she got really ill and the vet couldn’t diagnose the problem, but since it was causing her to be unable to eat or drink, we opted to send her to the Rainbow Bridge. She was a great dog, and she is still greatly missed.
Of all the dogs we’ve had over the years, Holly was the most prone to injury.
Though my dog Bear tangled with a recluse spider and she ended up with a huge hole in her throat where it bit her. Man did it ever smell bad when the tissue got all necrotic from the venom, eww it was yucky.
Most vet bills and adventures have involved either my horses or my cats. Overall I would have to say that my dogs usually are the least expensive when it comes to vet care due to injury or illness.
Kyrin
Kyrin wrote:Let’s see, my dog Holly was a walking accident. On our first wedding anniversary she climbed the fence, and got herself over it, but one back leg went through the chain link, so when her body went over, it snapped the thighbone clean in half. $600 vet bill and 3 months in a cast. She was 2 years old.
Then when she was about 6 years old, she ate the husks off of several walnuts, to get the walnuts of course, and managed to poison herself. Walnut husks when they are mildewing tend to produce a strichnine-like substance, so she was pretty sick. $250 vet bill.
When she was about 8 years old or so, she tangled with something venomous, a bee or something, face swelled up just like your Karly, cheaper vet bill, just got her some Benadryl and waited to see if it helped, it did.
When she was 11 years old she got really ill and the vet couldn’t diagnose the problem, but since it was causing her to be unable to eat or drink, we opted to send her to the Rainbow Bridge. She was a great dog, and she is still greatly missed.
Of all the dogs we’ve had over the years, Holly was the most prone to injury.
Though my dog Bear tangled with a recluse spider and she ended up with a huge hole in her throat where it bit her. Man did it ever smell bad when the tissue got all necrotic from the venom, eww it was yucky.
Most vet bills and adventures have involved either my horses or my cats. Overall I would have to say that my dogs usually are the least expensive when it comes to vet care due to injury or illness.
Kyrin
Wow! Holly loved to get into trouble, huh? I am glad that she lived a relatively long life-11 yrs. I hope my dogs won’t get into that much trouble!
Any idea what sort of bugs are causing all the trouble for the pooches?? All I read was black bug???
I was thinking it might have been some kind of lyme tick or other blood sucker that was capable of injecting venom or poison as well. Thats why I suggested she really go over her pooch with a fine tooth come, so to speak (thank goodness she’s a short hair dog). That big black bug might have been smaller during the initial once over, and easily missed. As it drank more blood, it may have expanded- and literally OD’ed itself the little bugger! 🙄 poor pun
And it was in such a horrible spot too; not a place the pup could scratch at either. And if she went after it with her mouth, perhaps some of whatever the bug was and secretes got into her mouth causing it to swell too. Like DM, would be interested in knowing what bug it was… if you kept it you should put it in a jar and have the vet look at it.
Glad shes on the mend though!
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