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Had an outbreak lately with my dogs wheezing n I know it's not heart worms but they are hacking and snot coming out there nose anyone know of a good way to kill the infection penicillin isn't doin much for them

I have had the same problem recently and would also like to hear any suggestions

 i had the same thing with my plott pup. i put her in a paticular kennel i lost my fm pit several months before and when i i moved her to the other kennel, she was wheezing with long stringy sticky slobber. after a couple days she was good. i listened to her lungs and could hear sever conjestion, but nothing several days later.

I have had the same thing i looked it up and talked to the vet there is no way to cure kennel cough he said let it run its course can take up to 2-3 weeks onlything you treat is the secondary infection with penn but thats after couple weeks

your best act of treatment for kennel cough is time , but to ensure it goes no futher and turns into a pheumonia is to get you some
              SMZ/TMP  from your vet it is a sulfa drug used for upper resporitory infections in humans and canines

I just had the same problem when my pup came home from the vet all my dogs got kennel cough. My pops called the vet & he said give them Robitussin cough medicine!! He said if they weren't better within 12 days to bring them in. But I'd say within 5 days they were all better.

Or Doxycycline

that doxycylcine works wonders

Wat is doxycycline n where do u get it does it only treat respritory infections or for everything

Works best for respiratory/bronchitis/kennel cough problems, and tick diseases in the blood.  As far as i know only thru a vet, but if youre in good with your vet maybe they could order you a bottle or something.  Its not a real good all-around antibiotic, more specific than say penicillin

someone told me to use the generic dayquil with no tylenol. it clearded up within a week at the most

Doxycycline or Clavamox. If it gets sever enough it can turn into Pnuemonia and you don't want that to happen. For the future, you can give your dogs the intranasal Bordetella vaccine to help prevent kennel cough in the future. It's worth it.

Ok thanks Wat are the odds it will develop to somethin worse

Eh, in the veterinary setting, I'd see maybe 2 pnuemonia cases for every 5 symptomatic kennel cough/URI case. If they're hackin and real snotty, or have green eye discharge, it's a real good idea to get them meds in 'em. It will run it's course from time to time but if they're showing the clinical symptoms that bad then they really should have the meds. 14 days is usually the regimen for oral antibiotics. Some older school vets carry Tylan powder which works well also for when you have multiple dogs.

Ok I appreciate it if only I could find vets as cooperative as the ones yal talk about