Hello.

First of all, I am not a vet doctor. However I have owned and bred dogs for over 15 years.

Some month back my female boerboel littered. 10 puppies. I sold one to a client. This was after 3 dosages of the DHLPP Vaccine and a consistent deworming. regimen. I received a call like 2 weeks later that the puppy was lethargic vomiting and stooling. I wrote off the parvovirus idea because I had supervised the vaccination. On examining the dog it showed the classic signt of a bloody diarohhea, nasal discharge lethargy loss of appetite etc. I called a vet who tested the dog. It returned positive for the virus.

The same vet refused to take the dog because puppies rarely survive the disease so I knew I was on my own. I started the dog on flagyl to combat the bloody diarrhoea. And amoxillin for any secondary infection. I also gave multivitamins. Initially, the dog refused to eat, so I force fed it. Milk eggs and chicken. Also an ors solution morning and night for a week plus. By the grace of God the dog is alive today.

The lessons I learned from this event are. 1 some vets are completely unreliable
2 the Dhlpp vaccine isn't a complete defence against the virus
3 you can treat your dog with the proper know how and dedication.


Lest I forget, I used latex gloves when having contact with this puppy and thoroughly washed myself in bleach after contact . It's dangerous to do otherwise

Nice one OP, vet doctrs are different from vet. Doctors, I want you to get that fact, am still a baby on this section and to dogs in general, I only steal little idea from prodeegee and co. In this section.

I guess the vet. Doctor you went to is not registered, because if he or she is the dog would always be attended to. And for the DHLPP you talked about, they have their functions, so it is quite different from the vaccines that kills of parvo.

But nice job you have done.

younglawya pls what do you think is the cause of still birth..it has happened to my dog 3 times...iv treated and treated ...I changed the male and the only diff was the puppies were born alive but they didn't last more than a week..kindly tell me what you think is the problem and solution cos the dog is on heat

younglawya:
The same vet refused to take the dog because puppies rarely survive the disease so I knew I was on my own. I started the dog on flagyl to combat the bloody diarrhoea. And amoxillin for any secondary infection. I also gave multivitamins. Initially, the dog refused to eat, so I force fed it. Milk eggs and chicken. Also an ors solution morning and night for a week plus. By the grace of God the dog is alive today.

i like it wen i see people who take charge of their pets welfare after being let down by vets! Some vets are really disgusting! had a similar experience the stupid vet saw me 5months later and was asking after my dog! dog that i called him to treat severally and he dint show up!

@ kunle, still births may happen wen the mother doesn't have the adequate vitamins when pregnant. Or as a result of prolonged labour. The solution to the first is starting the dam on pregacare when pregnant. As to the other one, I give a shot of oxytocin to the mum. It helps delivery and boosts milk production

Parvo virus is deadly but your dog can beat it with proper care.
*During the infection, diarrhea causes fluid and electrolyte loss, this can me managed by periodic re hydration with a fortified glucose solution (containing vitamin D, calcium). The famous 'glucose D' is good. Otherwise your dog needs a subcutaneous or intravenous supply of a glucuse solution ranging from 5% dextrose to 50% depending on the condition of the dog.Glucose is used because your dog's enzymes are messed up, the ability of the dog to digest food is tampered with by little functioning digestive process.

*The DHLPP vaccine is efficient (except in cases where a new strain surges). In Nigeria, most careless vaccine handlers break the freeze cycle. This is not supposed to be so. A break in freeze cycle renders the vaccine null. In essence, what your dog gets is not the attenuated virus but a piece of dead mass. Importers, sellers and vets are guilty of this. One cannot determine if the freeze cycle of a vaccine has been broken. The best bet is a serum analysis after vaccination. *Story! Facilities are unavailable for humans, not to talk of dogs.

*Antibiotics for secondary infection is a very good choice. The chances of the dog surviving is higher than those treated without the use of vaccines.

In all, I have learnt that early discovery and treatment of a diseased dog increases its survival chances.
The most potent drug I know of is LOVE.
LOVE keeps your dog fighting, willing to survive and puts it back on its feet.
Most vets don't have this drug, many dogs die under their watch.

wstinga:

*Antibiotics for secondary infection is a very good choice. The chances of the dog surviving is higher than those treated without the use of vaccines.

Antibiotics I mean...

Sure bro! LOVE goes a long way even for humans.
My first dog sickness was epistaxis and I didn't know what to do cos it happened at the early hours of the day but as I was managing it, she looked @ me like "boss! I can't make it o" cos she has lost a lot of blood, mehn u need to see how emotional I got and with some petting and gingering words, she started fighting for her life.
Our bond grew stronger afterwards

Apitch:
Sure bro! LOVE goes a long way even for humans.
My first dog sickness was epistaxis and I didn't know what to do cos it happened at the early hours of the day but as I was managing it, she looked @ me like "boss! I can't make it o" cos she has lost a lot of blood, mehn u need to see how emotional I got and with some petting and gingering words, she started fighting for her life.
Our bond grew stronger afterwards

Cool

Apitch:
Sure bro! LOVE goes a long way even for humans.
My first dog sickness was epistaxis and I didn't know what to do cos it happened at the early hours of the day but as I was managing it, she looked @ me like "boss! I can't make it o" cos she has lost a lot of blood, mehn u need to see how emotional I got and with some petting and gingering words, she started fighting for her life.
Our bond grew stronger afterwards

Your story is gonno make make me cry for Kim; my late alsatian dog. 'Love' is the word my brother.

Nice one OP, good for you. Some vets are actually unreliable due to one reason or the other, but don't be so jugdemental and hence decide to handle cases by yourself. You could cause more harm than good since you weren't trained for that.




...from a concerned veterinarian.

I love this,its very encouraging.I have learnt from this sometime some vets re just as* hole.money conscious and have no idea what they re doing.

Brought my new rott puppy(11wks) home on Sunday, Wednesday /Thursday she stopped eating. I google the symptoms and read some posts on nairaland, went to the vet and showed poop pictures. He said is parvo, and the treatment is 14k. I brought the dog, she could barely breathe at this point. He gave her 3 injections (both hind and one fore), she screamed in pain. He said no food till treatment is over, I bought oral rehydration drug for children and diastop (1 cap, 3 times a day) . I just used my brain to add glucose. Went home, gave her the solution, she drank. I could barely sleep. The next day, we went back to the vet, 2 more injections on my poor girl, she was looking a little better. On reaching home she broke down again, could barely stand. I kept giving diastop and ORS (30cl of water to 1/3 of the ORS sachet). 3rd day of treatment, she was looking a little better and eager for food. I gave her 2 hard Boiled egg yolk for energy. Went to the vet in the evening, gave her another 3 injection, this time she peeped out of fear and pain. Took her home, kept rehydrating her. Today, Sunday, she playing and lively. Eating and drinking, still plan to give her ORS and diastop till they finishes. Some vets are good. One told me 4k, but he has a lot of puppy blood on his hands. This my current vet is good but u use him for emergency only. He's charges are high (4k per distemper shot, 4k for anti rabies). So thanks to all those who wrote stuff on parvo on nairaland, God bless you all.
Parvo pic

Parvo poop. Luckily started treatment before she started vomiting and pooping watery poop. Your animals poop says alot about their health. Observe, sometimes (ones a week at least). Sometimes you may fine blood or worms or too watery or too hard.

I believe I've found cure for Parvo virus...just read this and judge.

So 3 days ago I came home to one of my 7 weeks old American Eskimo puppy lying on the floor looking cold and more dead than alive. It was looking weak when I was leaving for work that morning but I was in a hurry and couldn't attend to it. So at this time, his condition was hopeless. I was kinda reluctant to touch it with my hands, I used my leg to nudge it to confirm if it was still alive...was that bad. After that, I took a towel and used it to be able to touch it and pick it up (it looked infectious and dead, and scaring.)

It was lying in a pool of clear liquid which had come out from his mouth. I picked it up and took it into the parlor. Immediately after cleaning him up with cold water and toweling him, the next thing that popped into my head was egg and cod liver oil. Why?
In 2018 during my Youth Service in Maiduguri, we had a local family house dog at the Nccf. Being a big dog lover I adopted those dogs and even helped the females deliver their puppies. One time when I returned from a month long travel I was told all the puppies I had delivered were poisoned to death by our Muslim neighbor and that only one was still alive and battling for his life. I dropped my bags there and then and went straight to the backyard to pick him from where he had been isolated. He was all ribs literally, no exaggeration. His skin was gummed to his ribs. His teeth was tightly shut and he was smelling really bad. The vet graduate corpers in the family house had put him on drip and all sorts of drugs, I took him from there and brought him out into the compound. It was then that I first bought a syringe, one egg, and packet of codliver oil.

I broke the egg into a plate, mixed it with the tip of the syringe, drew it with the syringe (no needles), and injected it into the mouth of the dog towards the back of his throat so he was forced to swallow. Next I bit off the tip of the cod lover oil and emptied it into his mouth. I also mixed milk in water and injected it into his mouth. And did same with water, a few syringes. After this, I left him with the new set of puppies that came after his set (bad idea now that I know it was Parvo and is infectious, but they were all fine).

By the next morning, no jokes, this puppy went to eat with the other house dogs. He was two - three months old at the time this happened. And in two weeks, he regained his weight fully. By one months time, he was fat like a big plumb dog.

So for some reason, three days ago, I carried one egg again, with one capsule of 1000gm cod liver oil, and water. I gave the egg first, about 2-3 syringes, poured the cod liver oil in his mouth, then syringes of water. And seriously guys, no jokes, in about one hour this dog regained his strength. His crippled feet that was as fable as when he was born became strong again. It was like a joke. Then I poured the remaining egg in water proof and boiled it, and he actually ate plenty of it (can't remember if he actually finished it cos I was panicking at the time).

I dropped him in the parlor and went outside to change out of my work clothes only to see that his sister was lying paralyzed on the same spot I had picked him from. I knew what had happened and called my brother to take the other 3 into isolation and mop the floor of that whole area. I took this new one, her own was worse than her brother's. I ran out to buy egg as I was out of egg. Then I did all the things I did for the brother. She was not responding, her strength was still gone, she was struggling really bad. Her brother was walking all around the place, a little weak and running temperature, but at least he was walking. That was how I slept with these two puppies until midnight when the sister started getting back to herself. I dropped them there and went to bed.

By morning I was rushing to come and see if it's two dead puppies I was going to bury or one. But to my surprise, two of them were still alive. I was ready to go to the vet, but I needed to attend to the sister once more as she had not yet started to walk. I gave her 4 syringes of water and in few minutes (MINUTES!), she was walking and the both of them were running after me in no time.

The vet was useless, won't bother talking about my experience going to the vet. But I came back home to finish what I had started.
That night, after isolating the healthy three, I gave them syringes of egg and a capsule of cod liver oil each. And in the morning before going to the vet I gave all 5 another round of egg, cod liver oil and water.

I did this round of shots again in the evening before going for my night shift. Long story shot, on Christmas yesterday I released the two previously sick puppies to the healthy ones and you couldn't tell the difference. I made their mother suckle them after they came out and then gave them food with the rest.

I was feeding them eggs. I didn't give them milk this time because of what happened to my kitten in 2021, long story for another time.


BUT GUYS, THREE PUPPIES AT DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT BREEDS....it has to be something. Try it for your dog. IT'S INSTANT CURE!!!

Please, I am not a doctor or anything. I am just a big dog person since my first puppy in 2018. Still check with your vet.