We lost a male Lab with parvo. We had Cheyanne and Dakota, both around 6 months old. They were raised in the same yard and both were on their shots. But Dakota still caught Parvo and we lost him at the vet's office. Chey quit eating and lost all her enthusiasm to play. We then looked and found another male so we brought in Cocomeaux. I treated the inside and out with bleach. After almost 2 weeks, Cocomeaux started showing signs of Parvo. But one thing that saved us this round, I did research on the net and found this stuff called Parvoguard.
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I am so sorry to hear about you losing your Lab puppy, hugs to you !!! I have worked for a Veterinarian for over 27 years and I must tell you that Parvo Virus stays in the environment for up to a year, so PLEASE be careful with your new puppy..Cleaning with bleach is the right thing to do but remember that Parvo can be tracked in to the house and other areas.
I have a 4 1/2 month old female lab puppy molly.. she was tested for parvo and has it. The vet gave her 3 shots at the office and i opted to treat it at home. I do not have the money to hospitalize her but shes my baby and i love her. I ordered parvoguard for her and this is her first day using it. Already she is eating and drinking a little, wanting to play. I dont know if its fom the shots or from the stuff i bought. I figured at least im trying something..doing nothing is much worse. I will keep you updated on her condition. She is on her 3rd day of parvo. I also have 2 other dogs. So if anyone knows the chances of them getting it please let me know. I bleached my backyard and have cleaned what i could with bleach, Its the only thing i can do besides move.. and i cant do that right now.
My dog has had parvo for 5 days and has been on parvo guard for two days - and she is not getting better, but dramatically worse. She is crying now in pain, a mixture of howl and whimper. Anyone have any idea if I have just poisoned my dog with Parvoguard? No offense if the Parvoguard is actually good stuff. I will also mention that she was on IV for the first 3 days. Vet basically gave up on her. She has had two blood transfusions.
Editor's Note: Because she was on an IV for the first 3 days, she is probably dehydrated by now. Make sure to keep feeding her water or pedialyte or Gatoraid using a baby bottle or dropper so you can keep pushing some liquids in her. Hoping the best for her.
My dog was recently diagnosed with parvo and it is gonna cost about 1000 dollars to treat him. I was looking at some sites about parvo and found parvoguard. The vets are about to give up on him and we dont really know what to do so were gonna try Parvoguard and ill tell you what happens. If any one has any advise please tell me.
I had a 1 year old dog who caught parvo!
We fed her white rice and plain chicken Brest right after IG treatments and she slowly but surely got better the vet did give her oral medication but she was really bad. Id say she was basically dying
Oct of 06 we had brought home a brittany spaniel who was great for 5 days. Very quickly we knew she wasn't feeling well. Took her to the vet. They just didn't know what was wrong they did a parvo test anyway and she came back neg. We went home knowing there was still a prob and she was getting worse took her back the next day only to discover she tested pos for parvo this time. I already knew!
I've seen parvo before and this time it was really bad. Did the IVs at home for a week only to watch her slowly start slipping away, got desperate and found parvoguard started her on it when I knew it was probably hopeless as now I was approaching 8 days, after the 1st dose she was on her way to a full recovery. Keep the faith and buy the parvoguard my house will never be without it!( )
I have had a total of 4 puppies to contract PARVO--the 1st came from our local pound & I knew nothing about this disease. Needless to say, he died 8 days after we adopted him. A few months later I picked up a puppy from an ad in the newspaper--then got his brother 3 days later. The puppy I picked up first came down with symptoms a couple of days later and yes, his brother was next. The local vets advised me that if the puppies had already been infected there was nothing I could do except bring them in, have them put on IV fluids & antibiotics, then hope for the best--this would have cost upwards of $800-1000 per puppie. I ordered Parvoguard & had it rushed shipped next day. My opinion--This product sucks!! It did NOTHING for the puppies--and by now the second had gotten symptoms as well. A friend that breeds pitbulls--something I also DO NOT agree with--advised me, "If you want these puppies to live, then you need to do what I tell you. Do it as soon as possible. Forget what the vet & anyone else tells you. If you dont do this--Then those puppies will be dead within 3 days." His advice to me was this--go to the local livestock feed store (we live in rural GA) and tell the clerk you need a couple of '5in1' or '7in1' puppie shots. Yes, he meant a vaccine. You can purchase these yourself and give the puppies the shots they need to prevent parvo. The vet had told me that if you give a puppy a shot that already had PARVO it would kill the puppy. The vet is WRONG!! Our local feed store was closed for a long weekend because it was a holiday--I was there the minute it opened on the following Mon. I went home and gave each puppy a shot.
There is some bad advice here. I am a veterinary microbiologist and my research focuses on canine parvovirus. One of the things I do is run clinical parvovirus trials on dogs testing potential new treatments. One important thing to consider is Parvaid has never been tested in a controlled, clinical study that I can find. All accounts of efficacy are anecdotal and not based on scientifically gathered data. This is dangerous.
Your doctors are correct in advising against vaccinating your puppy if it is already showing clinical signs. Their years of medical training and experience are scientifically validated and speaks louder than several anecdotal accounts that a vaccine is a cure for a clinical dog. If you understand the mechanism and immunology behind how vaccines work, you will realize why your vet is not wrong at all. The purpose of vaccines is to generate an antibody and cell mediated response to a pathogen by introducing an avirulent strain to the host. Canine parvovirus moves through the body hematogenously and this makes it very susceptible to antibody. This is why parvo vaccines can be so effective if they're used correctly. If the animal is already infected, it is already trying to mount an immune response to the pathogen. This is difficult because CPV infects the mesenteric lymph node. Lymph nodes are the sites where immune responses are created. Vaccinating a clinical animal is likely to not be beneficial, but in fact have an opposite effect by further stressing the immune system. Additionally, virus introduced through a vaccine may bind up what little antibody is available, preventing it from attacking the pathogenic virus. Finally, active immunity created by vaccines generally requires at least 10-14 days to mount a response. The fastest response I have seen in a vaccine was 5 days, and that was in healthy beagles and the response was still quite young.
Antibiotics are important in treating enteric viral infections. Secondary bacterial pathogens such as Salmonella, Clostridium perfringens and difficile, and E. coli will prosper because the normal gut flora is destroyed and this is thought to be one of the greatest confounders in canine parvoviral pathogenesis. Bacterial toxins further damage the intestinal epithelium, resulting in lack of the ability to absorb nutrients or maintain fluid homeostasis.
Suggesting to bypass a veterinarian and treat an animal with parvovirus yourself is irresponsible and negligent, especially to an animal's welfare.
I don't know if this is the same stuff we used years ago, but the stuff we had was labeled parvo gaurd. We saved both of ours on it. I did 4 ccs of pedalite and 2 ccs of parvo Gaurd every hour on the hour. I had to force their jaws open and shoot it down the back of their throats (as they didn't want to eat or drink) it worked. After about a week, they were back to normal. This was 12 years ago. My Puddin just passed from old age and my Nanna is about to turn 13. Stuff works if is what I think it is. Back then it was super black market stuff. Local vets spoke ill of it, but our roommates paid over $1200 and lost their puppy. Our neighborhood was really bad for parvo.
That is my experience as well, about 11 years ago. It was in a larger bottle, 2 bottles, money back guarantee for around 75$, when we bought it 1 of my 2 pups had about 4 days into the virus, we order parvo guard Saturday when the 2nd pup came down with it. Overnight shipping it got to our house Monday afternoon. The 1st pup did that morning, the 2nd one was throwing up and diarrhea, very sick. Like they advertised, he was improving with hours. Day 3 he was looking back to normal, he lived. The second dog was my sons friend, diagnosed at the vet with parvo. My son called and asked me about the stuff we gave our pup. I had the second bottle still in the refrigerator. He took it, used it, and the dog recovered as well. I wrote down the ingredients and still have it them. It was all natural. I'm a skeptic, so it's a good th ing my husband bought the parvo guard, I wouldn't have. He said "what do you have to lose, money back guarantee". This product is not the same, and yes it was probably ban. Why? Idk, maybe to good to be true.
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