Hi all took my girl to the vets to have her glands emptied but she had  an imfertion in one of them. she is due in season this month we are having her mated  the vet as put her on rilexine & onsior & says that the tablets will not do any harm when she is mated what do you all think.
We do have a waiting list,Nikki is 6 & this will be her last litter.She has been tested and all clear.Do you think the pups will be okay hopefully.

Well the AB's should  hopefully be finished before mating and so should not have any lasting effect on potentail pups, as she hasn't been mated yet.

Hopefully AB's will be all that is needed to deal with the Anal Gland issue.

I use Epsom salts for anal gland abscesses to great effect as I found the anti biotics did very little to help.

Question if a bitch has anal gland infection can it stop your girl from coming into season & delayed it. asked vet but he could not say.
What do you all think.

Sorry to jump in but how do you use Epsom salts for the anal gland abscess?

My girl had an abscess that took over a month of antibiotics to clear (2 different ones). It seemed to clear but came back so obviously was not 100% gone, more and longer course of antibiotics followed...

All is fine now and she has been off the antibiotics few weeks but I would like to know just in case it comes back, although she was fine on the antibiotics, it was a long time to get rid the abscess and have a dog on antibiotics.

Hiya, Epsom salt is used as a drawing agent, I mix a small amount with water and soak a cloth in it then apply to the bottom and hold on for a a short while,  I have found it's helped as my boy gets them alot and I don't want to keep giving antibiotics and if he does it definitely helps it heal a lot quicker.

Rilexine is an antibiotic in the cephalosporin family. I'm not at work so don't have the compendium of datasheets handy but would imagine that it probably contains the standard line "the safety and efficacy of (drug x) during pregnancy has not been established" Having said that, from a risk assessment point of view, I would rather expose unborn pups to cephalosporins or penicillins than the delightful bugs that might make their way from an anal gland abscess up the bitch's genital tract. Ditto NSAID use though you may be able to stop that before the bitch is mated (ask your vet).  I would think the pups should be OK.  I think the epsom salts idea is a good one.
I do not think an anal gland infection would stop/affect a bitch coming in season.
One more thought. CKCS are over-represented when it comes to anal gland problems, in fact I think they are the #1 breed we see with these problems. Of course any dog of any breed can be unlucky and get an AG infection but if this has been a recurrent problem with the bitch, you will probably be perpetuating the predisposition to this in the pups. However, as you know, there are a lot worse genetic problems CKCS can suffer from, and you say the bitch has been tested clear so you're already doing a lot better than the "average" breeder (in which I include BYB www.cheapopups.com puppy peddlers. The more of you and fewer of them the better).  I guess CKCS breeders can turn their attention to the anal gland problems when they've eradicated syringomyelia and early onset mitral valve disease, and reversed the unpleasant trend towards the ever more brachycephalic head shape of many CKCS. At 6yo, if the bitch's skin and ears were going to cause any problems they would have done so by now (the reason I ask is that some anal gland problems are linked to atopy/allergies). If she or any of her previous offspring have had recurrent skin or ear problems, don't breed her - we have enough atopic CKCS youngsters coming through as it is. I expect this is egg-sucking-teaching in your case as you sound like you know what you're talking about, but I thought I'd add it more for the benefit of any potential budding breeders lurking on the forum. All the best for your bitch and her pups.

Many thanks for the epsom salts tip.  My girl developed a huge abcess (about the size of a golf ball) right at the height of her season having never had any anal gland trouble before (I always wondered if it might have been hormonally mediated as she is raw fed).  I really didn't want to take her to the vet as I don't like him that much and I knew she would be very distressed at being messed about with as it was clearly really painful.

So I used hot compresses with salt water & a flannel held on whilst she was lying on the sofa on a towel.  I reckon it provided pain relief as well as clearing up the abcess in about 10 days.   I used really quite hot water & held the flannel in place as long as it was hot.  I reckon I did this about 5 times a day.  Bits of it burst and I was pretty convinced having searched the net that she would need surgery as I wasn't sure the compresses would open the duct which I thought had blocked.

But I was wrong - the abcess went completely with no other treatment & has never returned.  So as it turns out it was quite lucky that it was in the middle of her season as otherwise I would not have treated it conservatively.  In this case certainly that turned out to be just the right thing to do.

Thank you Boody, I'll remember this if we get re-occurrence.