Anyone have experience with canine papilloma virus (warts)? (how much, clean, vet)
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Codie has these in her mouth and lips. She's young (1ish, maybe a little older). She finished a 10-day course of Azithromycin yesterday, but they remain and, if anything, they are bigger than they were originally when I spotten them on July 27/28. I assume she was infected by the virus at doggie daycare.
Has anyone else had experience with these? Supposedly they will go away on their own over time, but how much time? Is there anything I should be doing?
She's on a food trial testing for allergies so I can't give her any food. I read a few things on blogs about L-lysine, but not from official vet sources. I don't think my vet really knows much about this condition.
Codie has these in her mouth and lips. She's young (1ish, maybe a little older).
I have no insight, except to say that my dog had this and had them in his mouth (inside lower lip, side of tongue, under tongue). I noticed them around the time I was sending him in for a dental cleaning, so the vet just surgically removed them when he was under anesthesia. That was about 6 years ago, and they never reappeared.
I first noticed the "things" on Codie's lip on July 23. They are warts.
It's now September 9 and they are almost gone. We did 14 days of azithromycin and that did nothing.
Then on August 25, I gave her 1 Thuja occidentalis pellet (30cc, and available at Whole Foods.) The warts started to get smaller.
Three of them were almost gone, but one was still significantly large. So on September 5, I gave her one more pellet of thuja. Last night she was scratching her lip with her paw and hit the wart site. It bled (a lot) but now the wart is really small compared to what it was (~3mm).
My conclusion is that the Thuja occidentalis probably did work. I read online that the dosage should be one 30cc pellet, and then after 2 weeks, one more pellet if the first round didn't work.Knowing what I know now, I would not spend the $ on azithromycin again. I would try the Thuja occidentalis first (about $6).I sure will be glad when the warts are completely gone so I can resume her doggie daycare! I'm hoping that a week from now they will have vanished.
Both of my girls had them as older puppies (8-10 months). They both probably had about 10 in total, on and in their mouths, and the warts ran their course in about 6 weeks (from first appearance until totally gone). Quite common, per my vet, akin to chicken pox in human children, so seen primarily in animals that socialize quite frequently. No meds needed - they were ugly, but didn't bother the dog, and completely self-resolved.
hi just got rid of my dogs' warts. Once they start to go, they retreat FAST. Tried Azithromyacin, did not work. I read that if you can somehow make them bleed, it stimulates the immune system to get in. So I kept throwing his hard ball, which he caught with his mouth. The warts on his tongue and lip bled a little and I know it hurt him, but he loves to play so we kept at it. After about a week, I noticed the huge wart on his tongue was 90% gone. Then they just all went away in about 2 weeks, saw a daily improvement. He is only 18 months, so immature immune system.
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