Harvey
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Does anyone know much about this disorder, whether there is any treatments or if they grow out of it???
Harvey has seemed from day one to have one problem or another - his on going diarrhea problems and he has had a cough for weeks which every time i have mentioned it to the vet they have just said its nothing.
Harvey had tests on his stools and they all came up clear and when my cats then started coughing too i knew something wasnt right.
I pushed for them to do something about Harvey's cough telling them that the cats now had it too - they said that it wasnt possible for the cats to have caught something from Harvey and that bugs were not passed from dogs to cats.
Anyway they sent off his tests last week and i just received a call from the vets tonight.
It turns out that poor harvey has a very bad case of Bronchitis and that the cats probably have it too.
She went on to say that in having a discussion with a collegue they think with all the diarrhea etc its possible that Harvey has IGA!!!
They want to take a blood sample from Harvey and send it off to America to be tested for IGA and in the mean time give Harvey and the cats tablets to help the chest infection.
I have just tried to do some research on the net and have not come up with much......
Has anyone else come accross this disorder????
Harvey has seemed from day one to have one problem or another - his on going diarrhea problems and he has had a cough for weeks which every time i have mentioned it to the vet they have just said its nothing.
Harvey had tests on his stools and they all came up clear and when my cats then started coughing too i knew something wasnt right.
I pushed for them to do something about Harvey's cough telling them that the cats now had it too - they said that it wasnt possible for the cats to have caught something from Harvey and that bugs were not passed from dogs to cats.
Anyway they sent off his tests last week and i just received a call from the vets tonight.
It turns out that poor harvey has a very bad case of Bronchitis and that the cats probably have it too.
She went on to say that in having a discussion with a collegue they think with all the diarrhea etc its possible that Harvey has IGA!!!
They want to take a blood sample from Harvey and send it off to America to be tested for IGA and in the mean time give Harvey and the cats tablets to help the chest infection.
I have just tried to do some research on the net and have not come up with much......
Has anyone else come accross this disorder????