Laryngeal Paralysis
A weakening of the muscles that open the voice box, most often in older large-breed dogs, causing a changed bark, noisy breathing on the in-breath and difficulty in heat or on exercise. Often the first sign of the wider nerve condition GOLPP. A hot or over-exerted dog can tip into a breathing crisis, which is an emergency.
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GOLPP: Why Laryngeal Paralysis Is a Whole-Body Condition
If your older dog has just been diagnosed with laryngeal paralysis, you've probably been told it's a problem with the voice box, that the breathing can be helped, and that there's an operation for it. That's all true. But it's only the first chapter of a longer story, and I'd rather you heard the whole...
Laryngeal Paralysis Explained: Reading the First Signs in an Older Dog
It usually creeps in so gently that you only see it looking back. The bark sounds a bit different first, hoarser or oddly quiet, as though your dog has a cold that never quite clears. Walks that used to be easy now end with heavier panting than they should, and on a warm day there...
Living With Laryngeal Paralysis: The Everyday Routine
The diagnosis is behind you now. You know the bark has changed, you've heard that raspy in-breath on a warm walk, and a vet has put a name to it: laryngeal paralysis, very probably the first sign of the wider nerve condition we call GOLPP. What you're after now isn't the science again. It's the...
Heat and Exercise Safety With Laryngeal Paralysis
Here's the thing that catches owners out about laryngeal paralysis. Your dog can seem completely fine. He's lying in the kitchen, breathing easily, maybe snoring a little, and you'd never guess anything was wrong. Then the doorbell goes, or a squirrel breaks cover on a warm walk, or it's just one of those close, humid...
Laryngeal Paralysis and the Aspiration Pneumonia Risk: Feeding, Water and the Lifelong Watch
If your older dog has been diagnosed with laryngeal paralysis, or has just had the tie-back operation, someone has probably said the words "aspiration pneumonia" to you, and quite seriously. It's an unsettling phrase to be handed, especially when the surgery was meant to be the thing that made your dog better. So let me...
Tie-Back Surgery for Laryngeal Paralysis: How to Decide
Someone has said the word surgery, and now you're trying to work out whether you're about to do the right thing or the wrong thing by your dog. It's an older dog, probably a Labrador or another big breed, the breathing has got noisy and laboured, and maybe there's already been a frightening episode in...
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