Collapsing Trachea
A weakening of the windpipe cartilage, common in small and toy breeds, causing a dry, honking cough that worsens with excitement, heat or pressure on the throat. Usually managed well with weight control, a harness instead of a collar, and medication.
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Stent or Medication? How to Think About the Tracheal Collapse Decision
If you've landed here, the diagnosis is probably already made. Your small dog has a collapsing windpipe, the honking cough has a name, and someone, a vet, a forum, a worried part of your own head at two in the morning, has used the word stent. Now you're trying to work out whether you carry...
Collapsing Trachea Explained: The Goose-Honk Cough
It is usually the sound that brings people here. A small dog, often a little older, suddenly produces a cough so dry and harsh it genuinely sounds like a goose honking, and it tends to land at the worst moments: when the doorbell goes, when they get over-excited, when they pull on the lead, or...
Living With a Long-Term Cough: The Honest Long View
You've had the diagnosis now. The cough that nagged at you for weeks has a name, collapsing trachea, or chronic bronchitis, or perhaps a bit of both, and your vet has started a plan. The acute fright is over. What's left is the question nobody quite answers in the consult room, the one you're probably...
Cough Flare-Up: How to Settle It, and When to Act
You already know the cough. Your dog has lived with it for a while now, that dry, honking note you've come to recognise and, mostly, to manage. But tonight it's different. The bouts are coming closer together, they sound harsher, and the smallest thing sets them off. You're half-reassured because you've seen coughing before, half-frightened...
Canine Chronic Bronchitis: The Other Long-Term Cough
If you've landed here, the odds are you've got a small, greying dog who coughs. Not a one-off, not a kennel-cough fortnight that came and went, but a cough that's become part of the furniture: most mornings, after a nap, the moment they get up to greet you at the door. Someone has said the...
Calming a Chronic Cough at Home: The Daily Things That Genuinely Help
If your dog has a collapsing windpipe, or a long-term cough of some other airway kind, you've probably had the diagnosis explained and come away with some medication. And yet here you are, that familiar honking cough still punctuating the evening, wondering what else you can actually do. That's the right question, and it's the...
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