kennel cough, how do you tell and when to go to the vets?

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friends puppy has kennel cough, he has some anti biotics. today cherry was coughing a bit earlier, but not anything I would have noticed if it hadnt been for knowing about friends dog, she is not doing it now. I havent taken her out yet and though I would give it a miss today just in case. Have booked an appointment for vet in morning with the thought that i will cancel if she is ok.
do I need to phone the people that run the class we were at last night or do i wait until the morning to see? does it always need vet treatment or should we wait and see if she becomes poorly? she is fine in herself at the moment.

I think you can treat with child cough medicine. Wait for someone in the know to answer that properly! We haven't had kennel cough for a very long time so I can't remember what you are supposed to do, apart from possibly treat with Tixylix. Hope Cherry feels better soon. Apparently it is very easy to get KC from municipal water bowls. So... Take your own water!

I was at the vet last week when a man brought his dog in with suspected kennel cough. He had to wait outside. It was kennel cough and it wouldn't have got better on its own. Vet asap and you need to tell them you think it might be KC.

My pup had kennel cough, he caught it from puppy classes as did 3 other pups.
I did take him to the vets as I am a neurotic dog owner (I have reason to be)
The vet gave us some antibiotics and advised us to keep him away from other dogs, no off lead walks and walk him early/late to avoid other dogs.
They also advised us to buy some kids benilyn cough medicine for him incase he caught kennel cough again.

He did happen to develop the same type of cough a couple of months later so I treated it with benilyn and we didn't need to go vets.

we are definatly going to the vets this morning, she is worse, coughing really badly and although she got up all waggy to great me she is now back in bed looking very sorry for herself.

We were told not to use Benylin as the dogs need to cough up the gunk, my 2 yr old girl had it really bad and got a severe chestiness from it, high temp, really unwell.
MY puppy had a light cough only and shook it off in 48 hrs.
We were told NOT to walk outside the house until the coughing had stopped as the bordatella virus can linger outside for months...

What happened at the vet?

sorry forgot to update she has a high temp and had started wheezing so she has got a week of antibiotics, was told not to excercise anywhere with other dogs until coughing stops and she is due her boosters next month so if she is totally recovered she can have the kennel cough vaccine then as well. she seems fine in herself just a bit less energetic than usual. dreading if she perks up too much befopre I can take her out though, I suppose like when the kids ar off school but have had calpol.

I hope she is soon better.

I expect her to stop coughing before the antibiotics are finished, but like humans, make sure you complete the course.

afaik, there are many strains of kennel cough and the vaccine which is a spray up the nose, doesn't cover all of them. That's what I was told, no idea if its true.

Did the vet recommend getting some benylin or something similar?
I was so worried when my dog got it as kennel cough can develop into pnuemonia