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Bladder infection/Urinary tract infection in female dogs

Anyone have any home remedy's for this?

Vet wants an arm and a leg to treat.

urinary tract/bladder infection

Are you talking about treating an existing infection or preventing a future one?

One thing to consider with bladder and kidney infections is that the dog's blood is filtered through the kidneys. If the kidneys have an infection, the infection "can" spread to the entire body, creating a condition called sepsis if left untreated or improperly treated. This can be fatal, as it is with humans too. Trying home remedies may also be dangerous if a urine culture was not done as no one knows which antibiotic the bacteria is sensitive to without this step. In this day and age of drug-resistant antibiotics, it is sometimes necesary to use very expensive drugs to eliminate the infection once it has occurred.

To prevent bladder infections in the future, many people give their female dogs cranberry extract tablets. This will help to acidify the urinary tract and prevent the growth of bacteria in the first place. A 50 to 75 pound dog usually gets about 500 mg. per day. You can find cranberry extract with vitamins in most stores.

I'm talking about an existing or new "infection".

If I could afford the vet bill I wouldn't be on here asking now would I.

$28 just to walk in the door
$25 to keep her for 3 hours
$35 for ONE xray to check for stones ~ I think this is not necessary personally
$?? for the test
$?? for meds

Now I'm not in the financial position to fork out over $100 at the moment so some old fashioned home remedies would be great.

urinary tract infection

You can try fish antibiotics - FishFlex or FishFlex Forte would work and they are sold without a veterinarian's prescription. Cephalexin is good for urinary tract infections.

Here is an example:

http://www.lambertvetsupply.com/Fis...pr--001TLFLE100

I hope this information helps.

I had to take mine to the vet. Diagnosis was struvite crystals or stones in the bladder. The quack gave me some Science Diet s/d in the can to feed for a month, then do an x-ray and urinalisis, then put him on prescription bag feed to prevent reoccurence. What the s/d does is maintain an urine ph level of 6.2-6.4, and possibly dissolve the crystals.The bag feed is low in minerals; calcium, magnesium, sodium, phosphoros. So far, no other feed company makes a feed with lower mineral content of those four minerals. I have called a few of the feed companies and talked to their vet/nutritionist. One said he attended a seminar recently and some have thought that UTI's should be treated up to 2 years. One said 2 tablets daily of ammonium chloride in the feed or water, I can't remember, would help with lowering the urine PH. One said to give half of a Vitamin C tablet and cranberry juice. There was no signs of infection in the urinalisis and blood tests, so no antibiotics were prescribed. I had given him a shot of 1 cc of Agricillen (cattle penicillen or antibiotics), 5 days prior to the trip to the vet. This dog drinks very little water, so I suspect this might be part of the problem. If you have a druggist that will, get some amoxicillien or ampicillen and give 250 mg twice a day for a month. If you see blood in the urine, it may be stones. If they keep growing they may block her up and may kill her.

I've gone out with her each time and have seen no blood. Vet said I can give her cranberry pills to see if it clears up. One 500mg softgel a day plus it has Vitamin C in it and that should help also. I plan to keep giving them to her and have started to give them to my other dog too.

Only reason I knew something was wrong is cuz she kept beggin' to go out all the time and when she'd go it was only a small amount.

That prescription diet food is way over priced. Science Diet is a dog killer anyway. Stuff if garbage.

urinary tract infections

The Science Diet dog food sold over the counter in pet and feed stores is garbage in terms of quality. That I agree with. However, the prescription diets like s/d, z/d, i/d, k/d, etc. can be life savers as they are specific diets for specific diseases or conditions. These are sold by vets and are not usually available to the general public.

Purina also makes veterinary diets for specific diseases and medical conditions in dogs. My vet sells the Purina and Science Diet prescription diets for dogs and cats.