Canine flu outbreak in the SF Bay Area - Lola has it
Hi All,
It’s been a long time since I visited the Lab forum.
Lola is now 5 1/2 years old, and has grown into a beautiful, healthy, and active girl.
Over the past couple of weeks, the K9 flu started to quickly spread throughout the SF Bay Area.
Vets, pet owners alarmed by spread of 'dog flu' in South Bay - SFGate
On Thursday of last week, the doggie day care center that we go to notified customers that they were going to be temporarirly closed due to the flu outbreak. I had also taken to Lola to the beach a day before doggie daycare. Between the beach and doggie daycare, Lola came down with the flu.
On Friday, we started to see symptoms of the flu in Lola. The symptoms started to accelerate on Saturday. The two vets that we go to (our regular vet and the 24 hour emergency vet) had just heard about the flu outbreak. Our vet came out to our car, as they didn’t want to risk spreading the flu to other dogs.
On Saturday, our vet prescribed an antibiotic, and Tramadol for the cough. We went back to the vet yesterday, because Lola’s cough was worse on Saturday night. The vet prescribed Lomotil, and told us to put the Tramadol on hold for now.
At this point, Lola is having coughing fits about ever hour, and continues to cough up clear phlegm. She normally sleeps in her crate, but we brought her in our room last night. It’s been a tough couple of days watching her struggle with this. She seems a little better this morning.
Thank goodness she continues to eat a little and drink water.