PARVO!!!

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Nicola Smith — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:31:25 GMT

We use it for cases where the money is no object but some people won't pay and want PTS minute they know its parvo. We use it for 3 consecutive days. For very flat cases we have also used plasma - if they are looking flat do a haem blood on them and WBC will be through the floor - this is the only thing I have seen bring them back from that stage. Again cost is an issue though.

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:31:25 GMT

Thanks Fiona

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fiona eldridge — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:27:35 GMT

All the puppies we had with parvo were from pesky pet shops, so the stupid people that bought them for €900 don't mind paying another 3 or 400€ for the interferon. Just a shame if they have no puppy at the end of it. We hardly have any insured clients here!!!

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Emma Jarratt — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:47:57 GMT

I offer it but so far no insured positive cases, it is very expensive so uninsured tend not to go for it.

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fiona eldridge — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:20:20 GMT

We use the interferon for 3 consecutive days. Can´t remember the dose rate. We had a chihuahua recently that still died, but he was prob only about 6 wks old. But we used it in 2007 on 2 bulldog puppies that are to this day still going strong and have no intestinal problems or any problems relating to the parvo! If it works it works a treat!

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:27:40 GMT

out of interest Fiona, how long do you use the interferon for??

Cant say I have seen it used in parvo cases, but then where I come from there are very very few cases.

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fiona eldridge — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:06:03 GMT

Just a question. Do yo use Interferon for parvo cases in Uk? We get quite a few cases of parvo here as we have the lovely pet shops that sell dogs from puppy farms in the czech republic (brilliant I know) and they all come over in the same shipment at 4 weeks old fully vaccinated with pet passport (no really, they do!) then 2 days after they've been bought they usually come up positive for parvo (brilliant) but we seem to be quite successful with the interferon treatment out of prob 8 cases we had 6 survive with no problems to date. Now all we need to do is stop the bloomin English buying the bloomin puppies from the Spanish pet shops! aaaarrrrggghhh!!

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Katy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:15:57 GMT

Well little Bonnie died yesterday on route to the surgery.

RIP Bonnie xxx

She was very very ill.

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Emma Jarratt — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:07:36 GMT

Weird. Would definitely recommend that you inform the vaccine manufacturer.

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Katy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:49:07 GMT

Pretty sure they had all their vaccs up to now, except the last booster. So who knows what's gone on?

My boss is dealing with it primarily as it's his neighbours dogs. All he said was that they had a booster 18 months ago.

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Emma Jarratt — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:39:06 GMT

Yeah nobivac parvo should last 3y anyway.

Has it had primary course but missed the first year booster? In which case it might have not responded to the primary course due to persistent MDA (esp if 10 week finish).

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Katy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:31:41 GMT

It wasn't vacc'd at our place, but I think it was nobivac.

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Emma Jarratt — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:41:26 GMT

Most parvo vaccs last 3 years though - which brand do you use?

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Katy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:41:51 GMT

Well turns out they were last vaccinated 18 months ago.

IMHO it's just not worth the risk being late with the boosters is it? Bitch is still very poorly and was still having liquid faeces last night. Not that you could call it faeces. Poor poor dogs.

I've never done so much mopping in one day as I did yesterday. She was just leaking faeces The dog wasn't too bad but still pretty ill.

We're mail shotting all of our clients next week whose dogs are overdue, so we can warn them to get it sorted.

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Emma Jarratt — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:30:56 GMT

How old were they when last vaccinated?

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Katy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:25:22 GMT

Not got the best iso facilities here yet either. Useful!

We used a parvo snap test and came up positive twice. It stunk like parvo.

Poor doggies.

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Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:15:25 GMT

Ao Nao! We had a suspect one in yesterday. Not sure if he was or not will find out tonight. x