Another dog question

[brooklyngirl]

Hey guys,
So our puppy has a UTI, and the vet gave her antibiotics. She started acting kinda wacky about 24 hours after starting the antibiotics, very restless, whiny and peeing every 5 minutes all over the place only a few drops at a time. We facetimed with my friend, who's a vet tech, and he walked us through a few things to see if it was a real emergency that needed to be checked out at a 24 hour emergency vet and it doesn't seem so. I guess I'm Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this kinda thing and knows anything we can do to ease her discomfort until I bring her in tomorrow.
TIA!

 

[RockDoc]

Got to say - that's how I behave with a UTI. Sounds on target to me!

 

[brooklyngirl]

Got to say - that's how I behave with a UTI. Sounds on target to me!

Lol, me too! It broke my heart and made me crazy nervous though, stayed up pretty much all night. She's doing better and the vet said to give it another 24 hours as long as she's eating and drinking because it's probably a reaction to the antibiotics kicking in and/or the vaccines (which, in hindsight, I don't think they should've given her. I mean they won't give humans a vaccine even if we have so much as a cold, nevertheless an infection, but I digress).

 

[JackieOnLine]

oh, I feel for you - my dog Bunny once had a UTI so badly she was miserable and peeing blood.
we have struggled for years to figure out what needs to happen to keep her from getting more (she has had a lot since then but without any symptoms, just know from labs) - her urine Ph tends to go up and be too high no matter what we do and then she forms crystals.

also, I work in geriatrics and a lot of elderly women end up having them frequently or even always. :085:

 

[brooklyngirl]

oh, I feel for you - my dog Bunny once had a UTI so badly she was miserable and peeing blood.
we have struggled for years to figure out what needs to happen to keep her from getting more (she has had a lot since then but without any symptoms, just know from labs) - her urine Ph tends to go up and be too high no matter what we do and then she forms crystals.

also, I work in geriatrics and a lot of elderly women end up having them frequently or even always. :085:

That's how my grandmother is for over 10 years, hers is from a prolapsed bladder, but no matter what it's from they're misery!

 

[Munchkin]

Vitamin C! And a few drops of lemon or vinegar in their water.

 

[brooklyngirl]

Thanks @Munchkin ! She's much better than she was when I wrote this in a little bit of a panic, but she still seems uncomfortable. The vet said to call them if she didn't seem 100% in a week, almost there. When you say vitamin c, do you mean a dog version or just a low mg human one?

 

[Munchkin]

Low dose human is fine. The idea is to make her urine more acid. Cranberry pills work too!

 

[brooklyngirl]

Awesome, thanks!

 

[JackieOnLine]

Low dose human is fine. The idea is to make her urine more acid. Cranberry pills work too!

I think I've read a little tomato juice is OK for this, too

 

[Munchkin]

Anything that will add acid is good. Another thing you can check is the ph of the pups food.

 

[brooklyngirl]

Such good info, thanks guys