Lyme's Disease
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| Hoe do they get Lyme's disease? Is that the rats in water one? Living in the country surrounded by fields etc our vet said about changing outside drinking water in case a rat has been in it-they wee as drink apparantly,everytime your dog goes to drink to be on the safe side.x |
| Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness. Typically it's carried by the deer tick. It was named after the town in Connecticut, where it was first discovered in the 1970s (I believe). A tick has to find it's way on your dog (or you), bite, attach itself, and then feed for awhile in order for the disease to pass from tick to host. Ticks live in trees, long weeds, long grass, wooded areas. They either drop off a tree when a host walks under or attaches when a host brushes thru long grass or weeds. They don't attach right away, only after a little bit of time. That's why they tell people to check their pets and themselves if they've been in a weedy or wooded area. If you find the tick before it attaches, no big deal. Just collect it and flush it down the toilet. It's a little trickier if it's attached. You have to use a tweezer to pull the critter straight off. Otherwise, you'll leave the mouth parts behind and the disease can still enter the host. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection. If you or your pet are diagnosed with it, they'll give an antibiotic; typically doxycycline. One tell tale sign of the infection in a human is the large bulls eye rash. The sooner you treat Lyme's disease, the better the outcome. If left undiscovered for years, it can do some permanent damage. |
| What are they treating him with? Normally Doxycycline but that is getting so hard to find and expensive! Kensie needs it for her heartworm but no way the pharmacy could come up with the needed amount and the cost would have been over $800 not counting the other stuff she will be getting. Had to go with a replacement and hoping it is working. |
| His is getting Doxycycline. He came home from the Vet: had 3 weeks worth, plus anti-inflammatory and pain medication. His lab test was $140.00 our total bill was only $303. I thought that was pretty good. We do have to go back and get another weeks worth of doxycycline. But they did not think that would be a problem. I am also wondering about Frontline. Since we have always used it, is there something better - more protective. I guess I will have to ask Vet when we pick up other medicine. He was actually prancing last night while we were playing catch. So good to see him responding so quickly. Some of the human patients I have seen, respond much slower. |
| I'm glad Kirby is feeling better. Chewie came up positive summer before last - and me as a nurse too, felt bad. He rarely gets a tick, so it must have been one fast and sneaky one! And none of the other 5 dogs (who have so much less hair and would be easier for a tick to get to) have been positive. We did the doxy too - and he's still active and competing with zest! |
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