Bulldog Cough / Stridor Issues
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.
Category: Cough / Stridor
Pulmonary Stenosis
What is that?
Bulldog and French bulldog Pulmonary stenosis is a hereditary congenital heart disease that is rare in most breeds but common in bulldog puppies. It is a narrowing at the pulmonary heart valve.
Symptoms
Murmur on a physical exam, coughing, exercise intolerance, arrhythmia, fainting, heart failure.
Treatment
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Lymphoma Cancer
What is that?
Lymphoma comes in various forms, peripheral or multicenter. The location of cancer can be found in locations such as intestinal, mediastinal, dermal, or other lymphatic and node locations.
Symptoms
Enlarged swollen lymph node (peripheral or internal). The presentation may vary depending on location, and sickness is likely without treatment. Consider adding the V4B Immune Booster Therapeutic Supplement.
Treatment
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Elongated Soft Palate
What is that?
Elongated soft palate in bulldogs and French bulldogs elongated soft palate is an abnormality that can cause increased airway resistance, as well as an increase in negative intra-airway pressure, laryngeal fatigue, and irreversible laryngeal atrophy.
Symptoms
The condition is exasperated by excitement or/and activity and manifested by a loud breathing sound (stridor). It often progresses to retching, hyperthermia, and life-threatening cardio, circulatory and respiratory collapse.
Treatment
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Aspiration Pneumonia
What is that?
Aspiration (or inhalation) pneumonia is a condition in which your bulldog inhaled gastric material such as ingesta or acid. The foreign toxic material leads to your bulldog lungs becoming inflamed, reactive, and infected.
Symptoms
Pneumonia bulldogs typically present with a cough, fever, anorexia, and hacking and retching. Difficult Breathing, cyanosis, and potential life-threatening cardio, circulatory and respiratory collapse.
Treatment
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Sleep Apnea
What is that?
Sleep apnea in bulldogs is mostly associated with BOAS (brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome), as well as laryngeal obstruction, oropharyngeal narrowing, and swollen nasal turbinate's.
Symptoms
Loud snoring and chocking sounds; frequent gasps with breathing pauses Restless sleeping with sudden waking Irritable, depressed, fatigued, and stressed prone to respiratory, heart, and hypertension diseases
Treatment
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Brachycephalic Syndrome
What is that?
Brachycephalic Syndrome or Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BCS, BOAS) is also called the “Flat Face Dog Syndrome, which includes the elongated soft palate, pinched nose, saccules, and hypoplastic trachea.
Symptoms
The condition is most noticeable during excitement and activity by the harsh, loud breathing sound (stridor), snorting, and often cyanosis, retching, hyperthermia, and collapse.
Treatment
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Kennel Cough
What is that?
Kennel Cough (also known as bulldog infectious tracheobronchitis) is a highly contagious respiratory disease. Bulldogs often contract it when stressed and in contact with other dogs in public areas like daycare, dog shows, and boarding facilities.
Symptoms
the cough is typically nonproductive, with a “hairball-like honking sound. Severe cases can present with a fever and if retching ensues it could progress to aspiration pneumonia.
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