Parvovirus

This new strain that is out now has been said to be really hard to cure. My vet now recommends that you give the Parvo vaccine every 6 months.

A friend of mine has a dog that is hopefully recovering from Parvo, but not out of the woods yet. He's a 7 month old boy and I was hoping someone would have some tips for helping him out, on top of what the vet is doing.
He goes in in the mornings for fluids and also gets a B-12 shot, Reglan and Penicillin. He has been three times to the vet and also goes in the morning. At home he gets 4 cc's of unflavored pedialyte every hour and Flagyl.

Any more suggestions of what she can do to help increase his energy and help him get over this stuff???

And yes, I know a shot would have prevented this, but it was her son's dog and he was irresponsible. Now she is dealing with it.

He was a little more perky this morning and we are hoping.




BTW. I have no idea why the Title came up like that. I just typed Parvovirus.


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There are products out there that can help a dog through Parvo. I had a fully vaccinated 8 month pup get parvo and this website really helped along with the fluid from the vet.

http://wolfcreekranch1.tripod.com/heal_parvo.html

 

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A parvo vaccine every 6 months makes no sense. It is better to do a tidier test than to over vaccinate. Over vaccination can cause more problems. If the tidier shows high in the dog a vaccine will not help prevent parvo but could led to to other problems.
There is not a vaccine yet for the new strain of parvo that is effecting older vaccinated dogs. So giving another Parvo vaccine will make no difference, The sad thing is many Vets talk out there ass, after all that is how they make most of their money is by yearly vaccines and check ups.

 

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That makes sense. He said there is no way of telling which strain a dog gets, but to vaccinate twice a year will guarantee no Parvo. He said he has for 25 years and hasn't had a dog get it yet.
Thank you for the link...

 

There is not a new "strain". It is a variant of the already canine Parvo 2. The new varaint is Canine Parvo 2c.

Here is a link to the lecture notes from the conference this past Jan. Alot of medical mumbo jumbo. But basically ther is no vaccine that specifically targets the varaint 2c. But there is cross protection from the vaccines with 2b in it. There has been controled studies on it. They vaccinated a group of pups with vaccines on the market and did not vaccinate another group. All the pups that were vaccinated did not get the new variant. So al the vaccines on the market should protect pups.

When I was at the conference I sat in on a session about parvo. There is a new variant CPV-2c. It is not a new "strain" but a variant of CPV. There is no vaccine out there for CPV-2c currently, however there is cross protection from regular CPV vaccines.

http://www.pitbull-chat.com/showthread.php?t=22754

CANINE PARVOVIRUS: AN EMERGING,RE-EMERGING, SIGNIFICANT PATHOGEN OFDOGS

Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab
Center for Veterinary Health Sciences
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Canine parvovirus (CPV) is the number one cause of death in puppies. It is a single-stranded DNA virus with 5000 bases. It has hair pins at the termini. The middle portion of the genome is highly mutable. The termini are relatively stable. CPV is non enveloped and is quite stable in the kennel environment. CPV multiplies in the rapidly dividing cells of intestinal crypts leading to diarrhea and dehydration. From February 2006 to July 2008, a total of 147 CPV samples have been genotyped at the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab (OADDL), of which 13 were CPV-2, 83 were CPV-2b, 67 were CPV- 2c, and one was mixed CPV-2b and CPV-2c. There are other reports of mixed CPV-2 infections Based on this survey, CPV-2c has been detected in 15 states (AL, AR, AZ, CA, DE, FL, GA, KS, MO, NH, NJ, OK, OR, SC, TX). CPV-2c has also been detected in many of the countries of the European Union, South America, North America, and Asia. Australia is free of CPV-2c. There are no recent reports of CPV-2 testing from Africa.

We have not evaluated the in-office tests but based on the histories provided by veterinarians several cases of CPV-2 were not detected by the field tests. There are several reasons for failure of field CPV-2 tests. Clinical signs of CPV-2c are similar to other CPV-2 viruses. However, many cases have yellow mucous diarrhea. Hemorrhagic enteritis is also commonly observed in cases of CPV-2c. All cases that are clinically suggestive of CPV-2 infection should be tested in the laboratory because some samples do not test positive in the in-office tests. Age distribution among the 147 cases genotyped at OADDL was follows. There were 12 dogs over 12 months or above age group. Out of these 7 were typed as CPV-2c, 4 were CPV-2b, and one was CPV-2. There are other reports of CPV-2c in adult dogs from Italy. Various breeds of dogs were affected by CPV-2c. There are several commercially available modified live virus vaccines in the US. These vaccines contain one of the genotypes: CPV-2, CPV-2a, or CPV-2b isolates of the parvovirus. These high titer vaccines have been recommended as core vaccines for dogs for the prevention of CPV enteritis. The most common recommended vaccination protocol includes the puppy shots at 8, 10, and 12 weeks of age. A booster is given at 1 year of age. There are some vaccines that can be given every 3 years and most are given annually. One of the vaccines is a recombinant canary pox vectored vaccine. All vaccines use the same virus repeatedly to booster the immunity. This practice of vaccination needs to be compared with vaccination strategy using shots containing different CPV-2 genotypes at the time of booster as proposed by us recently. There are various reasons the vaccination can fail. The most common reason is presence of high titers of maternal antibodies that will neutralize the incoming virus. However, there is very little possibility that modified live virus vaccines can cause the disease. Most of the infections in the field are due to wild type CPV viruses. Cross-species transmission of canine and feline parvoviruses is an important consideration for clinicians. There is no published report of detection of feline panleukopenia in dogs; however, in one of our recent cases of CPV vaccine failure, we detected FPLV in a dog sample. There are previous reports of detection of CPV-2 in cats. Moreover, the role of other free-living carnivores in the epidemiology of CPV-2 needs further investigation. Clinical signs of CPV-2 infection can be similar to other causes of puppy diarrhea. These include canine coronavirus, Clostridium toxin and other enteric pathogens.

 

I'm not sure of what I'm saying is correct but it worked for me, try giving the dog a good smelly food so it would eat. If it eats its a very good sign of it recovering. Is your dog eating anything?

I once had a dog that had parvo and I took him to the vet, the vet said that he had 80% chance of dying and I should put him to sleep. I said no and told them I would take the 20% chance for it to live. I took him home put him inside, bought some can food, first I had to use a surgen to force feed him, a couple of days later he ate and was fine. NOTE i was 15