Bulldogs & French Bulldogs
PREVENT & TREAT
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs are prone to a wide range of painful and debilitating breed-related medical conditions. Most can be prevented and safely treated at your home, at a minimal cost.
Heartworms are transmitted by a mosquito bite, they clog the heart vessels and heart chambers, and are potentially life-threatening.
Heartworm preventives can be given annually by injection or monthly via the oral or topical route.
Same-day stem cell therapy treatment or recalled cryobanked stem cells can help prevent and treat a wide range of medical problems. It requires little to no anesthesia and is relatively painless.
Stem cells can be extracted and treatment provided on the same day, in addition, multiple treatments can be cryobanked at a young age for future needs.
Cherry eye is a casual name for a prolapsed gland of the third eyelid (nictitans membrane) a condition common to bulldog puppies. When inflamed and exposed it looks like a "cherry".
Unilateral or bilateral red, rosy "cherry" like tissue at the inner corner of the eye. The pet might rub causing it to swell, ulcerate and bleed.
The bulldog cornea is the outer layer of the eyeball. When injured/scratched a painful wound is created. In bulldogs, it often happens due to an eyelid problem, abnormal eyelashes, and/or dry eye.
Corneal ulcers are usually painful, your bulldog will squint, tear, blink, and paw at his eye. The cornea can appear red, vasculature, or punctured. Eye swelling, shut, and red and fluorescent stain under UV light (photo)
Bulldog dry eye, or KCS (Keratoconjunctivitis sicca), is usually due to an autoimmune disease that affects tear production. Other underlining reasons could be sulfa drugs, hypothyroidism, and facial nerve injuries. Over-the-counter lubricants and irrigating eye drops can be used in addition to prescription treatments but should not replace them.
The transparent clear cornea becomes vascularized, cloudy, red, and thick. Discharge is often purulent. Corneal ulcers and vision loss are expected.
Entropion, an inward rotation of the eyelids, is common in bulldogs due to their flat heads and excessive skinfolds. The rolling eyelid with its eyelash meets the eyeball (cornea), causing pain and injury.
Noticeably painful spasmatic squinting and blinking eyelid that is rolled inward; the eye might be shut and the eyelid puffed. Conjunctivitis, and often a noticeable corneal ulcer due to eyelid rub.
Bulldog tearstains are due to a red blood cell (RBC) by-product called “porphyrin" which is excreted in tears and saliva and activated when exposed to light. Also, tear overproduction or drainage issues will cause excessive tearing.
Unsightly, wet, reddish, tear stains are discoloration of skin areas that are in contact with tears and saliva, such as face and paws/legs.
