Morning, my 4 month old pup has kennel cough after he was in close contact with a dog at training who showed symptoms the next day. The last time I had a dog with kennel cough children’s benelyn existed but it has been taken off the market and all I could remember at the chemist was that the active ingredient started with a D. The chemist advised it was dextromethorphan and that rob it’s in dry cough medicine has the same active ingredient. The benelyn adult ones had different active ingredients so we are going to give it a go. Has any one had success with this?

It was a week between my pups exposure and his first cough so it is likely that my other dog will get it next week. Are there any preventative measures that can be used to stop her getting it - apart from the vaccine as it might be a different strain than the vaccine covers and I don’t want her getting the vaccine if her immune system may already be compromised with the kc virus. We are meant to be going on holiday with the dogs next week and I can’t take a dog with kennel cough.

With kennel .cough u are only treating the symptoms as its much like a cold in us but with a little one in particular watch carefully for secondary infection which will need vet input.  Symptom wise honey is helpful as is olive leaf extract .I have used olive leaf when I thought mine had kc and it certainly didn't develop further so might be worth a try as is Echinacea

Where do you get olive leaf extract from? What dosage etc?  Thanks

amazon or Holland and Barrett. The one I have is comvita if you can get a organic one even better. It needs mixing with food as it tastes disgusting . I use around half a teaspoon per day but it is a safe product with few side effects according to all the reading I have seen. perhaps start with a bit less especially for pup depending on breed . mine are 25kg and 40 kg when they were having it It is an antiviral and antifungal among other things and can  be used daily in food if you want to not just for KC
I would definitely prefer using that than otc meds but that's me of of course

Thanks for that. I will keep the pup on the meds but will look into it for my adult dog which might prevent it developing. 45kg so similar size to yours for dosage. Thanks.

Infectious tracheobronchitis to give kennel cough it's posh name has an incubation period of between 3 & 10 days & can literally be caught anywhere an infected dog has been. Being a multi causal condition it is difficult to actually discover the source of a dog's infection.

Honey can ease the symptoms as can other natural treatments. Echinacea Angustifolia can be used to improve immune systems to prevent or lessen future infections by boosting the body's immunity. Useful for human cold & flu conditiond

if pup is already on vet meds you can still use olive leave or echinacea and honey sooths the cough

He only really plays with other dogs at training and one of them had it last week so I am pretty sure that’s where he got it from. I’ll get some honey today for both of them and hopefully keep it as short as possible.

As already said, you can really only treat the symptoms if it's the viral KC.    I have in the past, used Benelyn, small dose, rather than childs Beneyln?   The good news is that although this is like human flu, and mutates, usually dogs who have been vaccinated shake it off fast.  It will affect puppies and the elderly most however, so if your pup is 4 months, it may be best to involve your vet.   Vets prescribe a/bs to help prevent it going to pneumonia, which obviously, is more serious.   Whether your other dog goes down with this would depend on his immune system - I don't know of anything other than vaccination/boosters to stop this being passed on, unfortunately.

Too bad about your holiday - but please don't bring them to a holiday location even for a week after the symptoms have gone - I live in a N.Cornwall coastal town and right now, it's FULL UP with people and their dogs.   I tend not to take mine anywhere near the crowded town during the holiday season - who knows what's being brought in!!

If you have to get to a vet - again PLEASE don't walk the dog into the waiting room.   I have seen this happen, and never seen an area empty as fast!   Keep him outside (in the car).

Your pup is very young to be fighting this virus. Although I am not one to run to the Vets on a whim, I would want my vet to check such a young puppy over just to be sure.

Mama as they are on house arrest just now and won’t be going to the vet either. If it is required I will do what I have done whenever any of my dogs have had anything contagious- last appointment of the day and car boot consultation.

ABs cannot prevent pneumonia developing

"Vets prescribe a/bs to help prevent it going to pneumonia, which obviously, is more serious."

Note, to help .....!    So I'm wrong again eh

https://petairapy.com/canine-cough-kennel-cough-in-dogs/

Please scroll down to How is KC Treated .....................

no you arnt wrong vets do prescribe abs for kc almost when first seeing the dog. but if its not bacterial infection that develops it wont help.Docs and vets do prescribe antibiotics in some cases as prevention especially if its a vulnerable dog or pup. I wonder if now we have a problem with abs they will be less lilkley too

I always used cough medicines with the active ingredient Guiphenesin, found in the chesty cough benylin, Morrison etc own brand always had one with it in.

https://www.benylin.co.uk/products?field_product_symptom_tid%5b%5d=36

> I wonder if now we have a problem with abs they will be less lilkley too

I think this may be the case .... If I've ever had to involve my vet re KC, they knew I was worried (by just being there!) and so probably would prescribe a/bs.   To do that automatically never happened with mine, but again, unless the hound was having a hard time, was young or elderly, I'd not bother with a vet.  NOT I might add, that we've had more than a couple of occasions of KC in our kennel in all the years we've kept them.

That is strange busydoggs as the pharmacist told me there was a licensing issue a few years ago and it was all taken off the shelves.

Bizarre, I have bought some recently, its just hard now to know which one to buy as there are now multiple paediatric Benelyns

I wouldn't risk it as they change the ingredients  and it's hard to know what is dog friendly