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Post by Carlin on Mar 13, 2020 15:49:30 GMT
Buddy was coughing and gagging something awful earlier so I actually gave him half of an antihistamine tablet to help clear out his throat. It did a great job but now he is a very tired pup. I view it as all good since rest is the most important medicine for a cold or kennel cough! He has no fever since last night, thankfully.
Side note about the medicine I gave him: way back in the day I wanted to be a veterinarian and I worked caring for puppies and kittens and volunteered in a shelter. The medication (diphenhydramine) was sometimes used for dogs with allergies so I knew what I was doing giving it to him. These days it is mostly used as a sleeping aid in the UK.
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Post by gtrmacs on Mar 13, 2020 15:54:32 GMT
T'n'me've discovered BloJo's secret anti-coronavirus strategy  !! Please don't share - it's top secret ... |
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Post by caryll on Mar 13, 2020 16:02:30 GMT
Hilarious.... but a bit too close to the truth!
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Post by gtrmacs on Mar 13, 2020 16:10:37 GMT
Anyone know what they were originally referring to??
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Post by goodie on Mar 13, 2020 16:41:18 GMT
No idea, it is obviously one of the comedy shows that I do not watch, like "Yes minister" or something like that, I do watch comedy shows, but not those. What was it? And yes, peanut butter, who needs it? Tasha does, obviously. Hope you can find some somewhere...
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Post by goodie on Mar 13, 2020 16:48:25 GMT
Buddy was coughing and gagging something awful earlier so I actually gave him half of an antihistamine tablet to help clear out his throat. It did a great job but now he is a very tired pup. I view it as all good since rest is the most important medicine for a cold or kennel cough! He has no fever since last night, thankfully. Side note about the medicine I gave him: way back in the day I wanted to be a veterinarian and I worked caring for puppies and kittens and volunteered in a shelter. The medication (diphenhydramine) was sometimes used for dogs with allergies so I knew what I was doing giving it to him. These days it is mostly used as a sleeping aid in the UK. How is Buddy now? Good that the fever's gone down, hope he will continue to improve!
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Post by goodie on Mar 13, 2020 17:12:27 GMT
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Post by Carlin on Mar 13, 2020 17:50:23 GMT
How is Buddy now? Good that the fever's gone down, hope he will continue to improve! He is sleeping which is to be expected. I woke him up to eat his dinner and have some water and he was coughing some then but now he is just resting. So long as he has no fever and the cough is not too bad I will let him just sleep the virus off and not do anything more than let him snuggle my pillows. At present he has a wool blanket that he is sleeping on in my bed and that's fine with me. He is not his usual self but I'm hoping a few days of rnr will fix that. The fever he had last night has not come back which I take as a plus!
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Post by cloud on Mar 13, 2020 20:48:08 GMT
Hope Buddy is better soon.
Shelves in supermarkets are getting more and more bare here, it started with hand soap, then toilet rolls, tea, pasta, rice, beans, now tinned fish, and hp sauce.
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Post by Carlin on Mar 15, 2020 14:47:28 GMT
Buddy is much improved. The antihistamine and forced rest did a lot for him. He still coughs when straining or trying to bark loudly but it's nothing like it was Thursday night and Friday. Last night and this morning he kept tossing balls at me and then purposely rolling them under furniture to get me to play and rough house with him. He will be in quarantine until Friday/Saturday though.
I haven't told my sitter that one of the viruses that can cause kennel cough is a Corona virus variant. People are running around wearing plastic gloves and facemasks here.... but then they still spit all over the place! I'll never get it.
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Post by cloud on Mar 15, 2020 21:26:59 GMT
Good to hear Buddy is improving.
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Post by gtrmacs on Mar 15, 2020 23:01:17 GMT
Lovely to hear he's improving - give him another hug from T'n'me  |
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Post by cockneychris on Mar 16, 2020 7:41:12 GMT
Glad to hear hr is getting over it, your nursing skills are legendary.
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Post by Carlin on Mar 16, 2020 19:36:43 GMT
Glad to hear hr is getting over it, your nursing skills are legendary. Haha thanks! He thinks I am a Legend of Boring!  I had a friend who burned his foot a while back and then called and said, 6 weeks after he burned it, "I can't put my shoe on, can you walk my dog?" and I reacted with a bit of a "What? How? After 6 weeks??!"
Then I saw his foot and the burn and it was GREEN! We shall not discuss what his interpretation of what a bandage was. I told him he was a foolish man and went back to my flat for my pharmacopia and cleaned him up and bandaged him and gave him strict, naggy instructions as to care plus special types of bandages and creams, with follow up nagging and reminders. After 2 weeks he had a healed wound and now it's only a pink spot on his foot.
I used to work in hospitals and trained to become a nurse but that isn't actually the career for me. The skills and practice of a decade+ in health/mental healthcare never leave a person.
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Post by caryll on Mar 16, 2020 20:13:04 GMT
Well done you!
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!! Please don't share - it's top secret ...
