Hard Cough

I took my my 4 year old pomeranian to the hospital with breathing distress – he was diagnosed with a collapsing trachea, I have always heard that these dogs cough a lot. I never heard my baby coughing. can someone help me. I am really scared I don’t want to loose him. The vet gave me a cough suppressant (she says that it helps with the breathing) and a pill that’s supposed to help calm him.
Thanks for your help.

If you don’t trust the vet’s diagnosis, then consult a second vet. Yes, coughing is the most frequent symptom, but it doesn’t mean that without coughing, there isn’t a trachea collapsing.

This problem, if it stands alone and isn’t like to CHF or injury, is often hereditary. Did you use a responsible APC breeder? If so, you need to contact them to let them know of the diagnosis.

Around 3 days ago I woke up with a sore throat. It hurts to swallow, my tongue is yellowish at the back nearer to my throat, when I cough I often produce phlegm. Although I do not have a headache, or a runny nose etc.

What could this be or is it just a sore throat?

There’s definitely a possibility you could have strep throat.

My son will turn 3 on December. He keeps coughing a lot. It is dry cough. I do not want to give him medicines.. Any home remedy please..???

-mother of 2

corn syrup. or call telehealth.

My friend took benadryl cough syrup more than 3 tea spoons now he fells a sleep for long time… what can we do to reduce the effect of medicine
what happens when some one drinks half bottle or full bottle… Is it poisonous?

3 teaspoons (1 Tablespoon) is not considered an overdose that would necessarily be lethal- are you sure this was allergy medicine? I was unaware that Benadryl made cough medicine. If they do, disregard my last statement and immediately contact emergency services- overdosing on cough medicine can be deadly.
In any case, it is always best to call poison control immediately, or get him to a hospital or doctor if he doesn’t respond to you when you try to wake him.
Hopefully you’ll just make him really angry by waking him up.
Best wishes.

I have bronchitis and my doctor prescribed me couch syrup to help with the cough but it is so disgusting. Everytime I take it I feel like I am going to throw up afterwards because of the taste. I always have a big glass of water and something to eat after but it still doesn’t help. Any ideas on what I can do to make it taste better? Thanks!

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Cough syrup brands differ in taste. Why is this the case if the problem and area they’re targetting is one and the same? Shouldn’t their chemical ingredients be the same as well?

By the way I’m factoring out the new ‘flavours’ chemists put in for kids to make it more pleasant tasting, so don’t comment on that part.

The flavor of cough syrups is just a marketing tool, not everyone likes cherry flavored cough syrup. The flavor is used to mask the taste of the active ingredients which taste really nasty and bitter, the rest of the syrup is made up of things like pectin that are used to soothe the throat. Not all cough syrups use the same active ingredients though dextromethorophan is one of the more common and effective drugs used in OTC cough preparations. You should also know that dextromethorophan is just as effective if you take it in pill form and it is easier to get down.

I am in a hospital overseas and am having difficulty getting good answers due to the language barrier.

sometimes, if the mucous is starting to break up. A cough is caused by irritation of the respiratory system, so if the mucous is starting to break up and dissolve, it can cause more irritation and more coughing. But it shows that the mucous and infection is starting to clear up.

My dog was exposed to kennel cough. I took him to the vet and he has been on meds. for 7 days. Still not eating or playing the way he did. I am concerned.

NOTHING does squat for viruses!!!
They’re self-limiting,

My puppy is five months and I have noticed when playing hard she coughs/gags, she also does this sometimes when she drinks to fast but mostly when she is playing hard and running around with my other dogs. She does not throw up and it does not last long. Should I take her to a vet for this ya think?

could be a reverse sneeze
could be nothing
could be something serious
i would talk to my vet

It just happened to my brother, he coughed or threw up a little bit of saliva it seemed, but he just randomly started coughing and choking extremely violently. He does have a pollen allergy, and it is spring, could this be it possibly?

In the back of your throat you have these tiny cells with hairs on them to not let any dust go down your throat. This is why we cough so the cells can get the dust that’s in your throat out. I probably just swallowed some dust or pollen and the cells were finding it hard to cough back up.

Another reason might be that it nearly went into his lungs. Like sometimes when you have a drink and you start choking because it went down the wrong way, its because it actually did go down the wrong way. There are two tubes that go down your throat one is for food and drink that goes directly down to the stomach, and there is a tube that connects off that tube which connects to the lungs. There is a flap of skin that closes the tube when you are drinking and it opens up for breathing. This means that when the water goes down you choke a lot to get it back up out of the tube. That maybe what happened to your brother but it was dust instead.