New One On Me

[laurie]

I swear, that's what he said.

 

Rhemus had a dental Tuesday (only had to have 1 tooth pulled!), and they sent a fecal to the lab, too, while he was there. It came back positive for nasal worm eggs.

 

What the--!!!!!!

 

Panacur to the rescue

[Burpdog]

OK - I cannot let this go. What is a nasal worm doing in a fecal? He had his nose up his butt?

 

Carol Macherey DVM posted on the list last month about seeing several cases in a month, so I emailed Dr. Bill and here is what he said:

 

I've not diagnosed it myself... but I can't say if I've never seen it. The eggs are only intermittently shed and nasal swabs are not reliable. A nasal "wash" is diagnostic but requires anesthesia so isn't very practical. If you get lucky and the dog swallows some mucous with eggs you can catch it in a fecal but it is a hit or miss thing.

 

He posted it to the vet list and someone at a track had seen several cases.

 

All I can say is yuk--right up there with nose mites.

[Guest snowberry]

Ewww - I'd heard of nose mites, but not worms - but tongue worms can apparently live in dog's noses:

 

http://publications.royalcanin.com/renvoie...;session=978561

 

Er, don't look at the pictures if you're wormophobic!

[dbullwinkel]

Garry has constant dripping from his nose..not like his nose is wet..the drops hit the floor. No other symptoms though. I never heard of nasal worms (yuck) and was wondering if drippy nose was related or anything to worry about.

[Burpdog]

Could be. There are also nose mites. Makes you want to grab their nose and kiss right? :lol

[Guest Hannah]

eeuuuuuugh!

 

I think nose worms beats my A level biology teacher talking to us about eyelash mites. my eyelashes itched for days afterwards.

 

Hannah - off to find some other area of Holly's anatomy to cover in kisses until she forgets about nose worms and mites.

[Guest ArtysPeople]

Garry has constant dripping from his nose..not like his nose is wet..the drops hit the floor. No other symptoms though. I never heard of nasal worms (yuck) and was wondering if drippy nose was related or anything to worry about.

 

Arty's nose will do this if he's excited. It's often accompanied by chattering. It happens a lot in the car, for example. We were told it's normal for greys.

[laurie]

Rhem doesn't have any symptoms, and I've never seen any worms.

 

And, I'm NOT gonna stop kissing his cute little nose!!

 

(Maybe I'll need some Panacur, too )

 

[dbullwinkel]

Garry has constant dripping from his nose..not like his nose is wet..the drops hit the floor. No other symptoms though. I never heard of nasal worms (yuck) and was wondering if drippy nose was related or anything to worry about.

 

Arty's nose will do this if he's excited. It's often accompanied by chattering. It happens a lot in the car, for example. We were told it's normal for greys.

 

Thanks! he does chatter also and I guess he is always excited since he is always drippy

[lovinggreysslp]

Oh gosh, while I appreciate learning yet something else new and exciting....... yuck! I'll file this info for potential future use (or not).

[Guest houndlover]

YUCK! I have never heard of nasal worms only nasal mites and I hope that my dogs never get either!

[Guest LindsaySF]

That. Is. Awesome.

 

 

 

~Lindsay~

 

..... worm girl .....