Nose Polyp

[Amymay Again]

Morning all.

Has anyone had a dog that developed a polyp in the nose?

If so what was the treatment and recovery?

Thanks

 

[misst]

Nonetheless come across this but bumping. Hope it's not serious

 

[Amymay Again]

Nonetheless come across this but bumping. Hope it's not serious

Many thanks x

 

[Supercalifragilistic]

Not a dog but we have a cat with a nose polyp. I can’t recall exactly when it first appeared, probably around 8 years ago. She has had it removed twice, once under GA and once in a battle with some kind of rodent that bit her nose! Each time it has come back, albeit not quickly. She is now too old to safely manage a GA, and I am reluctant to try a third time if it will just come back again, so we manage her with steroids and occasional antibiotic courses.

She now also has an ear polyp, which may or may not be related (it’s the opposite side to her nose polyp). This was removed around a year ago and the steroids seem to be keeping re-growth to a minimum.

I hope your dog is ok.

 

[Amymay Again]

Thanks @Supercalifragilistic.

 

[PurBee]

We had a cat with a nasal growth /issue - but with hindsight the vet we used should have scanned her head first off to just get an idea of what it really was. They assumed just an infection, despite symptoms and visual suggesting growth/inflammation. She was 10. It was a long ‘trial and error’ road of treatments with no definite logical plan of treatment (with hindsight).
I actually now strongly suspect her moving here to rural wilderness conditions, she had a tiny tick that are plentiful here, that crawled up her nose and attached and died, causing cells to grow around it like a wound healing type of effort. Back then i suspected inhaled sharp grass seed that had perhaps lodged in her nose and became a ‘lump’.
Her nasal breathing became a ‘honking’ sound. Followed by Nasal discharge. Infection, which then spread to her eyes. It just got worse, despite the meds and vet flushing treatments, who all the time said it was an infection.
Hindsight again - we needed stronger anti-b’s, scans, more flushing of infections and changing anti-b’s if no improvement. The treatment needed to be more aggressive.
We no longer use that vet, he didnt listen to us, and we were unsure of true cause then, so followed the protocol thinking he’d seen and treated it before, that failed.
We lost her to it. Infection spread to the brain/nerves/body motor issues.
Her case made me be more direct and questioning with vets. It’s why my next case with my dog was a success.

My dog, moreso confirmed my suspicions of my late cat being affected by a tick up her nose. My dog had a teeny weeny tick attach to her upper eyelid. Theyre so tiny tick pincers wont remove them and you risk just squashing the tick causing it to vomit into the attached point on the animal and transmitting Lyme. Years later i got Lyme here while making hay, requiring 2yrs treatment. Many counties in Ireland were confirmed in a university study to have ticks with Lyme.

I’ve never risked removing ticks until they’re swollen and a safe size to remove whole and safely.
This tick on my dogs upper eyelid remained small, but then i noticed it had gone. They swell and drop off quickly most of the time. The teeny black small ticks can take a mere few hours to swell and drop off. Theyre very difficult to see amidst fur.

Anyway, my dog then rapidly developed a small growth exactly where the tick was. Hindsight again - suggested that she had more likely rubbed her eye due to the tick being itchy and it hadn’t been rubbed-off whole - it likely had its head and teeth remaining in the skin. This can easily happen with ‘failed’ tick removals with tick pincers of the very small black type of ticks. Theyre so small they fit easily on the head of a biro pen tip. (We’ve got all sizes of ticks here!)
This partial embedded tick head goes on to cause a very localised type of infection which then goes on to cause a lump of cells.
The vet called her eye lump a polyp, and it was removed easily, no issues, full recovery. It was excised back to healthy skin.
It was a simpler case than my cat as the growth was external rather than buried within the nose largely unseen and difficult to monitor.

Dogs can get nasal mites which may go on to cause nasal issues and growths/irritations.

I’m sharing my 2 experiences with polyp type growths so that you can consider if may well be a ‘foreign object’ lodged, thats become a cellular lump. If its a foreign object, infection can be silently present and may need aggressive treatment.

 

[Amymay Again]

Many thanks @PurBee xx