Sentences with phrase «grass awns»

Other causes include foreign material in the ear (such as grass awns) or parasites (such as ear mites).

Unfortunately, there's very little that a dog owner can do to protect their pets from the affect of grass awns.

Carefully examining your dog after walks and time spent outside is the best first line of defense against grass awns.

Like many other issues, the real danger to dogs suffering from grass awns is a lack of action on the part of the owner.

For dogs, the vet is likely to try and rule out conditions like grass awn inhalation, collapsing trachea, kennel cough, and respiratory infections.

Occasionally grass, and particularly grass awns, can become lodged in the back of your dog's throat or between his teeth.

Sometimes this duct can be blocked with debris such as grass awns, rhinitis or sinusitis, which results in soft tissue swelling around the duct leading to occlusion.

«Eventually, a board - certified veterinary surgeon was able to locate the grass awn and remove it, and a lot of infected and damaged muscle.

Inspect canal and remove any foreign bodies such as grass awns, ticks, etc..

Foreign bodies, such as grass awns, are also a painful and common source of infection for the feet.

Foreign objects that lodge inside the ears, such as foxtails and grass awns, are other common causes of ear irritation, inflammation and infection.

Lesions caused by a foreign body, eg, a grass awn, are usually solitary and often occur on a front foot; recurrence is not common in these cases.

Solitary lesions may require surgical exploration to find and remove foreign bodies such as grass awns.

The classic interloper in a dog's ear canal is a grass awn.

Common foreign bodies are seeds and grass awns.

If your pet's itching is focused on an isolated area, investigate the area for foreign objects such as splinters or foxtails (grass awns).

To diagnose this problem a veterinarian looks into the ear canal with an otoscope, and then removes the grass awn.

Allergic skin disease affecting the ears is the most common cause for recurring increased ear wax production / ear infection; other causes of ear infections include ear mites, and foreign bodies in the ear (such as grass awns or foxtails), or hair growth deep in the canal (common in poodles and schnauzers especially).

Common causes of dog ear infection are water trapped in the ear, foreign material (grass awns), yeast, atopy (inhaled seasonal allergy), hypersensitivity to foods, bacteria, immune mediated or autoimmune diseases (pemphigus foliaceus) or mites (Otodectes and Demodex).

Another common cause of nasal bleeding can be a foreign body, such as a grass awn (seed), lodged in the nasal passageway.

Anything other than tears — grass awns, grit, eye lashes — that slides under the eyelids can scratch the cornea.

Foxtail is the common name for a grass awn, a piece of wild grass containing a seed and several long bristles.

Carefully remove vegetative matter such as grass awns, seed casings, or thorny twigs with fingers or comb.

The most common foreign bodies in the ears are foxtails or grass awns.

Many veterinarians, particularly those east of the Mississippi that do not have exposure to foxtail infections on a regular basis, or who do not have a lot of working dog clients, will not have a grass awn infection high up on their diagnostic radar.

Your dog surviving a grass awn infection may well depend on you being an observant and informed owner, and you may need to educate your veterinarian.

First, be aware that the symptoms of a grass awn infection can be very vague and nonspecific.

Here are the points that I would stress to anyone who thinks their dog might be affected by a grass awn.