Ziekte van Lyme

Aangezien het nu ideaal weer voor Teken zijn heb ik een vraagje vanuit nieuwschierigheid.
Je hebt veel gemische middelen tegen teken voor de hond.
Maar als je je hond laat inenten tegen de ziekte van Lyme???
Zou dat geen beter alternatief zijn..maar dan natuurlijk alsnog blijven controleren op teken.

Vorig jaar heb ik Sasja ingeént tegen deze ziekte dmv een coctailprik bij de DA.

Dus..zou dit een goede alternatief zijn tegen de gemische middelen?

Ik heb eigenlijk geen idee, misschien werkt het idd wel beter.,
Wij hebben de honden vorige week weer behandeld met dat spul van Exil tegen teken en vlooien.
Ga het toch es navragen bij de DA

Ik wist niet dat er een inenting bestond voor lyme....

Die enting bestaat maar is goed voor 4 tot 6 weken.
Ga je naar het zuiden op vakantie moet je na 4 tot 6 weken weer enten,het is voor een korte tijd.
De teek kan een bacterie die hij bij zich draagt in de bloedbaan brengen en die is zo gevaarlijk.
Dat is nog gevaarlijker als de ziekte van lyme. Ondanks het enten blijven controleren.

Ik wist ook niet dat er entingen voor waren.

Op de site van www.7forSeven.nl staan ontwormingen en anti-teken/vlooien druppels zonder chemie.
Op natuurlijke basis. Onder de kop "supplementen".
Al die injecties en pipetjes zijn slecht en werken op de lever en de nieren.
Deze natuurlijke middelen niet.

Geen ziekte van Lyme vaccin in mijn honden, evenals geen chemische rotzooi.
Het vaccin zelf kent nogal wat bijwerkingen, dus dat is wel het laatste wat ik zou geven.

Cornell University’s School of Veterinary Medicine researchers suspect long-term side effects are associated with the Lyme disease vaccine for dogs, but nothing definitive has been documented or exhaustively studied, says Allen Schoen, a doctor of veterinary medicine in Sherman, Connecticut. “These side effects may vary from rheumatoid arthritis and all the major symptoms of Lyme disease to acute kidney failure." If you’ve recently vaccinated your dog against Lyme disease and it is exhibiting Lyme disease-like symptoms, it may be experiencing an adverse reaction to the vaccine. Consult your veterinarian for appropriate treatment. Treating presumptively with antibiotics is prudent, particularly if the dog shows side effects shortly after receiving the Lyme vaccine.

Painful Joints After Vaccination

Arthritis and painful joints typically are the first signs of possible Lyme infection.

While the majority of dogs infected with Borrelia borgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, shows no signs of disease, some dogs develop painful joints and stiffness weeks or months after vaccination, according to 2ndchance.info. “Simple arthritis is usually constant in the joints it affects,” states 2ndchance.info. “But lameness due to Lyme disease often shifts from leg to leg.”

Vaccine-Induced Lameness

Adverse reactions to the Lyme vaccine are more common in puppies and senior dogs.

Lameness differs from arthritis, which typically causes swelling in the joint or joints. Lameness usually affects one front leg or both following vaccination, and the lymph node in the affected leg may be enlarged, according to 2ndchance.info. Dogs may yelp in pain when walking and shuffle stiffly, indicating lameness, arthritis or a combination of both. Dogs may not want to walk at all. Sometimes a low-grade fever accompanies these side effects.

Kidney Failure

Veterinarians treat dogs with vaccine-acquired Lyme disease with antibiotics.

If side effects don’t occur right after vaccination, it doesn't mean your dog is completely safe. It can take months after vaccination for side effects to appear, giving the vaccine-induced infection a chance to quietly attack other organ systems. Destructive inflammation from vaccination can occur in the dog’s heart and nervous system, though this is extremely rare, says Mar Vista Animal Medical Center of Los Angeles, California. “The dog’s most serious long term potential regards 'glomerular disease.' This is a type of kidney damage that occurs when the immune system is stimulated over a very long time by a latent infectious organism,” MVAMC states. Dogs with vaccine-induced contamination might not display outward side effects, even though the infection is wreaking havoc internally.
Bron: http://www.ehow.com/list_6677032_lyme-vaccine-side-effects-dogs.html

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Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease is caused by an organism called Borrelia burgdorfieri, which is transmitted by a tick. Borrelia is a spirochete, a highly coiled bacterium.

Lyme Disease is very serious in humans, although scientific opinion generally holds that it is rarely serious in dogs. Most experts contend that it causes only brief acute illness in dogs, or no symptoms at all. Dogs in endemic areas will often test positive for Lyme and have no symptoms, or at least, no observable symptoms.

Many dog owners, and some veterinarians, don't agree with this view, and claim to have observed serious debilitating disease in their dogs as a result of infection with Borrelia.

There is also debate over how widespread Lyme disease really is. Some argue that since 90 percent of human Lyme cases occur in 100 counties in eight states, it's not widespread at all. Others point out that Lyme is grossly underreported and underdiagnosed, and epidemiology information on this disease is probably a few years behind, as well.

I don't know the truth of the situation. There are many tick borne diseases that we know, but more that we don't. Most ticks do have more than one of these, and if a dog has contracted Lyme, they probably also contracted one of the others. Perhaps both groups are correct, and one of the other tick diseases is actually responsible for the sick dogs' symptoms. Or perhaps current conventional thought is wrong, and Lyme really is serious and common in dogs.

Despite these controversies and despite the potential seriousness of the disease, the following points convince me that this vaccine is not a good one, even in endemic areas:

One, 19 of 27 veterinary colleges in North America do not give Lyme vaccination, and the other 8 only give it if the owner requests it.

Two, it can often cause inflammatory arthritis in dogs who get it, just like Borrelia itself can. However, unlike natural Borrelia infection, antibiotics have no effect on the vaccine-induced form of the disease.

Three, the human version of this vaccine was removed from the market.

Four, like all bacterial vaccines, immunity doesn't last long and thus the vaccine needs frequent repetition to be effective, which means you are exposing your dog to the risk again and again, unlike viral vaccines which provide years, probably a lifetime, of immunity.

Five, I question how useful this vaccine is:

"One study in an endemic region demonstrated that 89.6 percent of healthy dogs had positive Lyme titers. There is no apparent correlation between positive Lyme titers and the occurrence of clinical signs. Only 4.8 percent of naturally exposed seropositive dogs demonstrated a limb or joint disorder with lethargy, fever, or inappetence; however, 4.6 percent of seronegative dogs also demonstrated such disorders. Most dogs that are seropositive for Lyme disease have not exhibited clinical signs of the disease." (Why I Don't Use Lyme Disease Vaccines, Meryl P. Littman, VMD, ACVIM; Department of Clinical Studies School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Compendium on Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian, November 1997.)

Read more about Lyme disease in dogs here.
Bron: http://www.caberfeidh.com/Revax.htm


En nog een interessante link:
http://www.caberfeidh.com/Lyme.htm

Gelukkig maar dat het in Nederland (en in Amerika) niet als core en non-core vaccin geadviseerd wordt.
Misschien heb je iets aan deze info.