"More recent research is suggesting, however, that this approach may not be the best, and I now do believe in treating a titer (as long as it's from the new C6 test that can distinguish between infection and vaccination antibody, if the dog has ever been vaccinated for Lyme).
In a 2005 study of 62 beagles who were infected with Lyme, 39 of the 62 dogs showed some symptoms of Lyme disease. 23 did not. This is substantially more than the 5 percent shown in an earlier study, also with beagles.
On necropsy, almost all the dogs had some signs of Lyme disease in the form of synovitis (inflammation of the joint lining) - including the asymptomatic dogs.
14 of the 62 dogs had very severe signs of Lyme infection, including inflammation of the blood vessels and nerve sheaths. Some dogs had lesions resembling those found in human Lyme disease. (Histopathological Studies of Experimental Lyme Disease in the Dog, J Comp Pathol. 2005 July, Summers BA, Straubinger AF, Jacobson RH, Chang YF, Appel MJ, Straubinger RK., Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-6401, USA.)
Although this is just one study, and I have some questions about how they controlled for the possibility of co-infection with other tick diseases those ticks might have been carrying, and how the asymptomatic dogs' necropsies compare to the necropsies of dogs not exposed to Lyme, I still think this tips the scales in the direction of treating exposed dogs even if they are asymptomatic."
I know they are calling for a heavy tick season in certain parts of the country so I thought I would throw this out. If caught early treating it can be very inexpensive, I think it's 30 days of antibiotics.
I'll be bringing Cori to my vet soon for her "is she preggers" appointment and I'm going to bring this study with me and try to find the one cited. My vet's pretty much on top of stuff and if he isn't he gets on the phone real quick.
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We are super high Lyme here, both my dogs had it. first one was sympotomatic, Amber showed no signs of it and was positive and treated. It destroyed Koddies back. Amber stretches alot and I think she may have some pain in her back. I plan to have her retested and this time we'll use Baytril. Alot of dogs die here from asympotomatic lyme-they go into kidney failure. Its a nasty, nasty, disease.
My animals are not "like" family, they ARE family.
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