Melissa Thom Webboard User Reg: 12-04-2007
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I'm not sure how complicated diagnosis is but isn't the treatment for lepto a simple course of antibiotics? It's not quite the same as oh say rabies or brucellosis where we have no real treatment options that work AND it can spread to people.
I attended a seminar through SoCalBARF last year and Christie Keith was the speaker. I remembered her talking about the Lepto vaccination. I just googled and this looks like a pretty good write up:
People should decide for themselves about vaccinating.
As far as treating it goes --cattle, I gave IV oxytet 3days --- a goat I treated had a pen/strep antibiotic injection everyday for 10 days --- we probably don't know how much of it we treat in dogs because we assume they are all vaccinated. Sick dog with bloody urine gets antibiotics. Sick dog with hepatitis gets antibiotics. Maybe we treat it a bunch and don't routinely check for it, I don't know the answer to that.
I know my cow who lost her calf and had to go in the chute for 3 days for a scary and painful IV would have rather had a lepto shot 6 mos before she drank the icky pond water that made her sick. Now I vaccinate my cows twice a year for lepto, even though they hate it, and sometimes I get a vaccine reaction. Some dairy farms vaccinate 4x a year around here (Minnesota-Wisconsin)
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: Cathi Kemp
I attended a seminar through SoCalBARF last year and Christie Keith was the speaker. I remembered her talking about the Lepto vaccination. I just googled and this looks like a pretty good write up:
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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QUOTE Brendon.."ET-Ask, after that last round Anne, you don't do anoter set ever?"
Brendon.... No,I don't revaccinate. I titer every couple of years or so & have always had high titer numbers for imunity & therefore never revaccinted. This has been the case with 3 dogs up to the age of 6 1/2.
I believe, if I recall correctly, Dodd's protocal is for 3 parvo/ distemper vacinations & then one at a year. With each subsiquent vacination you wipe the slate clean as far as imunity is concerned & the body has to rearem itself. So I don't really feel that revacinations is generally the best course at all. Since there is again a period that the dogs imunity level is VERY low at the time of the reintroduction of the vaccine. I actually redo the Parvo /Distemper vaccines @ the 16-18 wk just to insure immunization with the pup. I guess that you could actually titer after the first & if high enough not revacinate at all. I just do it to insure that one of the vacinations took. Then titer at a year & then periodically after that.
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