Birker2020
Well-Known Member
Our dog has been labelled as suffering from 'allergic rhinitis' which is a large label and means she could be allergic to 100 different things.
She kept doing a bad reverse sneeze and we went to a vetinary referral centre where they performed a head xray, an endoscopy, and a CT scan. All in all her treatment is well over £2K as she wasn't insured. She's been on every kind of steroid imaginable, and stuff mixed in her food. She has a humidifier on most of the time which does help with her breathing. She still eats, plays and goes for walks. She has 220 acres to roam in (lives on site at local riding club) and often takes herself of for a couple of hours rummaging around.
She is an 11 year old beagle bitch.
She is typical of the 'type' of dog that suffers from aspergillosis. I read that dogs can pick this up from wood chip as it is a fungus that grows readily in tree bark. It was around the time we laid the wood chip down for our hens run that she started the symptoms.
When she had the endoscopy (not called endoscopy but very similar in dogs) they found that she had dead and decaying nasal cartilage. Again another symptom of aspergillosis.
She has strange 'fatty' lumps all over her body, again another sign of aspergillosis in its latter stages.
She has white nasal discharge which is almost constant. She does this severe 'reverse sneezing' which isn't remedied by holding shut her nostrils as is the case with normal reverse sneezing (to free up the palate which sticks and partially blocks the airway).
She is often asleep during the day, again another symptom.
Anyone any ideas/suggestions.
Thinking of taking her for a 2nd opinion and getting a culture done to get a definitive answer as our current vet says she hasn't got this and I am sure she has.
She kept doing a bad reverse sneeze and we went to a vetinary referral centre where they performed a head xray, an endoscopy, and a CT scan. All in all her treatment is well over £2K as she wasn't insured. She's been on every kind of steroid imaginable, and stuff mixed in her food. She has a humidifier on most of the time which does help with her breathing. She still eats, plays and goes for walks. She has 220 acres to roam in (lives on site at local riding club) and often takes herself of for a couple of hours rummaging around.
She is an 11 year old beagle bitch.
She is typical of the 'type' of dog that suffers from aspergillosis. I read that dogs can pick this up from wood chip as it is a fungus that grows readily in tree bark. It was around the time we laid the wood chip down for our hens run that she started the symptoms.
When she had the endoscopy (not called endoscopy but very similar in dogs) they found that she had dead and decaying nasal cartilage. Again another symptom of aspergillosis.
She has strange 'fatty' lumps all over her body, again another sign of aspergillosis in its latter stages.
She has white nasal discharge which is almost constant. She does this severe 'reverse sneezing' which isn't remedied by holding shut her nostrils as is the case with normal reverse sneezing (to free up the palate which sticks and partially blocks the airway).
She is often asleep during the day, again another symptom.
Anyone any ideas/suggestions.
Thinking of taking her for a 2nd opinion and getting a culture done to get a definitive answer as our current vet says she hasn't got this and I am sure she has.
