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I am in search of advice, here's my problem. I have a 15 month old female Walker. On Monday April 17th I noticed the dog hadn't eaten that day but acted like her normal energetic self. Tuesday she still hadn't eaten anything but once again still acted like herself. On Wednesday, she was out of her box, in what I thought was sunning herself and that's why she didn't get up to greet me but she still hadn't eaten anything. Made rice and chicken still wouldn't eat. Thursday she wouldn't come out of her box and still had not eaten. Later that day we went to check on her and she opened her eyes and they were completely blued over and she clearly couldn't see anything. First thing Friday morning she was at the vet. They did blood work to rule out Hepatitis Blue Eye, after all this they chucked it up to being some kind of allergic reaction to what they believe to be cedar chips. They gave eye drops, steroids, pain pills, and an antibiotic. Was back to vet yesterday and was better but today the left eye is back to blue and the right eye looks good but still can't see anything. Any help or advice would be great. Because our vet is at a loss with what it could be. Thanks in advance JK Kennels

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Is there a better vet around. Maybe someone else can run more test.

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If she isn't better Monday she goes back in but to a different vet. I am just wondering if some of the veteran houndsmen have every seen or heard of this before.

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Things I would check ... look for allergen in the eyes, has she been exposed to any pesticides maybe where hunted? Has she had recent heartworm treatment or wormer that involves ivomec, it can cause temp blindness in to high of a dose . Blastomycosis can cause blindness so make sure she is tested for it, blasto is a very serious fungal infection that can involve the eyes and can cause sudden blindness it is a very serious disease, treatment is long and involves antifungal medication. There are a couple of good threads on here on it.
If she were mine tomorrow I would put the water hose on very low pressure and flush each eye out thoroughly them I would squirt a little penicillin in each eye and over the counter allergy eye drops won't hurt and could be a simple sollution if it is caused by a foreign object, pollen etc or an infection of the eye. If no better get to the vet Monday and have them run full blood work and also check for blasto. Good luck with everything.
Jen

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I also would stop the steroid until blasto is ruled out. I am sure your vet have it to help in case it was caused by an allergen. A steroid would be the proper protocol to stop the bodies natural immune system response to anything allergy related, the problem is that if it is not allergy related is does no good and your dogs natural immune system has just been blocked and the condition can worsen.
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Thanks Jen, yes we flushed the eyes at the vet. She is on antibiotics, eye drops, steroids, anti-inflammatory meds. She hasn't been hunted recently due to her being in heat. She has been laid up for about 5 weeks. However, about 3 weeks prior to this "allergy" we turned a coon loose, she treed it and shot it out to her. That coon tore her up, when we got her off the coon her face was all bloody from the coon biting her on the face. I have told the vet about this as well as the cedar chip being used now it's warmer out. They didn't seem to concerned about it being the coon that did this... we don't use ivermicen... and blasto she doesn't have any other symptom's other than not eating..

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I also would stop the steroid until blasto is ruled out. I am sure your vet have it to help in case it was caused by an allergen. A steroid would be the proper protocol to stop the bodies natural immune system response to anything allergy related, the problem is that if it is not allergy related is does no good and your dogs natural immune system has just been blocked and the condition can worsen.
Jen

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Originally posted by JK_Kennels
Also have ruled out Hepatitis Blue Eye as well.. so just assumed they checked the blood for blasto as well.. the vet is really at a loss we have a second opinion Monday...

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I doubt they ran an antigen test for blasto and he most likely didn't run any kind of a tissue test. It is not very common so isn't the first thing most will look for.

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Just curious, what do you use in place of ivomec?

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Trifexus.. all in one pill

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Now if it's this blasto will the other dogs in my kennel be affected as well? [/B]

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