Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)

OntarioSheltie said:
Sadie has a bladder infection.

She was acting very agitated the other night, had peed in her crate while we were at work (which she NEVER does) and had another accident 20 minutes after bringing her out. I automatically collected a urine sample in the morning (nothing like getting up at 6 am, in the dark and having your hand peed) but realized soon afterward that she'd gone back to acting normal.

I brought the pee sample to the vet anyhow and they told me that she has a bladder infection and that we'd caught it early. By the next night Sadie was feeling much better and was practically bouncing off walls.

The funny thing too is that she LOVES the antibiotic, she acts like its candy and will offer behaviors when she realizes its time to have it.

I can't remember what it's called, but it starts with a C. Sadie like the taste of things that are bitter but she doesn't usually go this crazy. I wonder if the pills are flavored. Has anyone heard of this?
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If anyone is interested, the drug she's on that she loves so much is Clavaseptin 250mg. It contains amoxicillin and clavulanic acid and its chewable.
 
Another UTI

Well, its 11 months later and Sadie has a UTI again.

Friday we came home from work and she was SICK. She showed absolutely no signs of being sick till it was BAD.

She'd peed on the floor some time during the day and she was so quiet. My husband was horrified when he took her out to pee and she was peeing blood, and not just a little bit. Poor girl, she strained and strained, she was obviously in pain.

Luckily our vet is open Saturday mornings so I was able to bring in a pee sample and get her an antibiotic pretty quickly. She's on the same chewable one as before, Clavaseptin 250mg. I hope its strong enough, the last time they did a second pee sample and it still showed bacteria, so she was on another antibiotic for an additonal two weeks. She's now acting like her old self again.

Does anyone know what causes persistent UTI's in dogs? Poor Sadie, it seems if its not one thing its another.

I'm going to start giving her plain yogurt with her meals and cranberry extract tablets when her antibiotic is finished, as some other forum members mentioned on other UTI threads.

For how long should I give her the cranberry tablets? Are there any other other suggestions for preventatives that I might try?
 
Have you had blood work done and ultra sounds of her bladder and female parts done to make sure nothing underlying is causing the UTI's?

I'm sure you mentioned all that before on older threads, but I didn't look first :uhoh:
 
Poor Sadie. I'm worried Bailey might have another UTI too. She asked to go outside a lot yesterday. I went out with her a few times to see if she actually went to the bathroom and I didn't see her do anything.

One time I ignored her and she peed on the floor.

I hope she was just going outside a lot because she likes the rain and wind.

She hasn't had an accident in months...ugh I hope is not a UTI.
 
OntarioSheltie said:
Well, its 11 months later and Sadie has a UTI again.

Friday we came home from work and she was SICK. She showed absolutely no signs of being sick till it was BAD.

She'd peed on the floor some time during the day and she was so quiet. My husband was horrified when he took her out to pee and she was peeing blood, and not just a little bit. Poor girl, she strained and strained, she was obviously in pain.

Luckily our vet is open Saturday mornings so I was able to bring in a pee sample and get her an antibiotic pretty quickly. She's on the same chewable one as before, Clavaseptin 250mg. I hope its strong enough, the last time they did a second pee sample and it still showed bacteria, so she was on another antibiotic for an additonal two weeks. She's now acting like her old self again.

Does anyone know what causes persistent UTI's in dogs? Poor Sadie, it seems if its not one thing its another.

I'm going to start giving her plain yogurt with her meals and cranberry extract tablets when her antibiotic is finished, as some other forum members mentioned on other UTI threads.

For how long should I give her the cranberry tablets? Are there any other other suggestions for preventatives that I might try?
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Has she been on Clavamox also? Could you give her the plain yogurt now for the probiotics in it? Also, somestimes they need a harder hitting antibiotic than Clavamox or others like Baytril. Our beloved Golden was diagnosed with prostate cancer and one of the side effects was chronic UTI's. We had to use Clavamox at a therapeutic doasge and when that didnt work we had to use Baytril..:sadsmile:
 
Megansmom said:
Has she been on Clavamox also? Could you give her the plain yogurt now for the probiotics in it? Also, somestimes they need a harder hitting antibiotic than Clavamox or others like Baytril. Our beloved Golden was diagnosed with prostate cancer and one of the side effects was chronic UTI's. We had to use Clavamox at a therapeutic doasge and when that didnt work we had to use Baytril..:sadsmile:
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Sorry, I keep forgetting things...I looked up Clavaseptin and it doesnt mention it's use for UTI's or even bladder infections :confused2:. So I was curious what the reasoning is behind your Vet prescribing that particulare one?!
 
This is something that we are dealing with as well. Brighid has an infection too frequently for our Vet's comfort. It's about every 6 months. With the last one, we did an x-ray looking for stones or anything else and the x-ray didn't reveal any problems. The vet said that the next step was an Ultrasound which doesn't make me that happy since they will have to shave her. One thing that he did notice and did suggest was a potential case was her vulva where there is a 'flap' that is down lower than normal. This has the potential to catch bacteria and then cause the infection. If it turns out that this is the cause, they are able to do a procedure and modify that area to raise the skin flap.

Based on advice from an earlier UTI, we keep any areas clipped that might get stained and we clip her behind. She has had infections where the signs were very very clear (frequent urination and straining). However, the last one the symptoms were very subtle and yet a culture revealed a very progressed infection. As a matter of fact, I'm presently suspecting an infection now. since there is snow on the ground, it makes it easy to see and I know that there is no blood in it, but I just have that feeling again that something is not quite right. That would make it only about 4 months since her last one.

The antibiotic that we use is administered by a shot and it is effective (I don't recall what it is called). Brighid does not like taking pills and having to give them to her really causes a lot of stress so I really like the option of a single shot - and she doesn't mind needles at all.
 
She had a ton of blood work done a little over a year due to digestive problems, in addition to the UTI but everything came back normal or inconclusive. Since getting the digestive issues under control approx. a year ago, she's been in perfect health, until now that is.
 
Brighid's Mom said:
This is something that we are dealing with as well. Brighid has an infection too frequently for our Vet's comfort. It's about every 6 months. With the last one, we did an x-ray looking for stones or anything else and the x-ray didn't reveal any problems. The vet said that the next step was an Ultrasound which doesn't make me that happy since they will have to shave her. One thing that he did notice and did suggest was a potential case was her vulva where there is a 'flap' that is down lower than normal. This has the potential to catch bacteria and then cause the infection. If it turns out that this is the cause, they are able to do a procedure and modify that area to raise the skin flap.

Based on advice from an earlier UTI, we keep any areas clipped that might get stained and we clip her behind. She has had infections where the signs were very very clear (frequent urination and straining). However, the last one the symptoms were very subtle and yet a culture revealed a very progressed infection. As a matter of fact, I'm presently suspecting an infection now. since there is snow on the ground, it makes it easy to see and I know that there is no blood in it, but I just have that feeling again that something is not quite right. That would make it only about 4 months since her last one.

The antibiotic that we use is administered by a shot and it is effective (I don't recall what it is called). Brighid does not like taking pills and having to give them to her really causes a lot of stress so I really like the option of a single shot - and she doesn't mind needles at all.
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The vet didn't really say much, I guess since this is her second one. Its been almost a year so maybe she doesn't consider this that frequent. It makes me wonder though.

I wonder if dogs are like humans with UTI's, some are just prone to them. I'd like to do some preventatives if possible though.

Sadie has no problems with taking pills, especially these ones. If they're not chewable I give it to her with a small piece of cheese.

Since we've been potty training a puppy we've been keeping a close eye on both of our girls potty habits. Until she started peeing blood, she was happy, healthy, active and showing no signs of pain or blood. I don't know if it was a really fast growing infection or if it had been there for a long time. I just wish it hadn't gotten that bad for her.
 
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