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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.
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.
Stenotic Nares (pinched nares) are part of the flat face (brachycephalic) syndrome. The nasal airflow restricted by the atrophied collapsed nasal cartilage increases the negative intra-airway pressure.
Bulldogs and Fr. Bulldogs with pinched nose exhibit snoring, hacking & retching, and breathing difficulty. Severe chronic stenotic nares can lead to cyanosis and potential life-threatening cardio, circulatory and respiratory collapse.
Everted Laryngeal Saccules are a secondary outcome to the better-known primary bulldog obstructive airway syndrome conditions (BOAS). When the saccules evert, they appear as bulging tissue at the two sides of the larynx.
Noisy respiration and intolerance to any excitement, exercise, and activities. Hacking retching and regurgitation are common.
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.
The condition is most noticeable during excitement and activity by the harsh, loud breathing sound (stridor), snorting, and often cyanosis, retching, hyperthermia, and collapse.
Allergic Rhinitis is an inflammatory condition of the nasal sinuses (Sinusitis), due to allergen exposure.
Nasal discharge, sneezing, snoring, open mouth breathing, bloody nose at times, and/or labored breathing.
Sinusitis is an inflammation of the sinuses and nasal cavity mucosal lining. It can be caused by viral, bacterial, allergies, fungal, dental disease, and foreign body.
Your bulldog will typically sneeze and have either clear, mucoid, bloody, or purulent nasal discharge.
Long-lasting BOAS (Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome) will lead to fatigue of the laryngeal cartilage, cartilage atrophy, and irreversible end-stage laryngeal collapse.
Severe noisy respiration exasperated by any excitement or/and activity. Debilitating and life-threatening, cyanosis, retching, and often secondary aspiration pneumonia.