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Chronic Bronchitis?

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Abi_nurse said:
Sorry to hear all this is going on, the gasping is worrying to me. Please consider getting your little ones heart scanned to double check for any heart disease as this is far more common than realised. I think he probably does have a respiratory infection b the gasping makes me concerned about heart disease.

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The emergency vet suggested heart disease last night however said it looked normal on the X-ray. She said everything looked normal. How do you diagnose and treat heart disease?
 
I have heart pigs and they are on Benazapril twice a day which is an ACE inhibitor. Some vets also use Vetmedin in addition to Benazapril. On an x-ray the heart can look enlarged and there is fluid around it. I am not sure about a scan so will let Abi answer that.
 
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helen105281 said:
I have heart pigs and they are on Benazapril twice a day which is an ACE inhibitor. Some vets also use Vetmedin in addition to Benazapril. On an x-ray the heart can look enlarged and there is fluid around it. I am not sure about a scan so will let Abi answer that.
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the vet said on his x ray the heart was a lot smaller than she thought it was going to be and it looked healthy and there was no fluid anywhere
 
OK. See what Abi says maybe it works the other way too. I don't know much of the scientific stuff.
 
He just did what I can only describe as a mini sneezing fit which seemed to get lots of mucous out of his left nostril
 
helen105281 said:
I have heart pigs and they are on Benazapril twice a day which is an ACE inhibitor. Some vets also use Vetmedin in addition to Benazapril. On an x-ray the heart can look enlarged and there is fluid around it. I am not sure about a scan so will let Abi answer that.
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Piggiemum7 said:
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the vet said on his x ray the heart was a lot smaller than she thought it was going to be and it looked healthy and there was no fluid anywhere
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X-rays are very vague when it comes to diagnosing heart problems. A smaller heart can mean anything from dehydration or underweight. The only real way to tell heart disease for sure is to do an ultrasound scan of the heart to look at the sizes of the chambers and if there is any fluid anywhere near it.

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