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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Apr 26, 2024 18:33:40 GMT -5
I've had dogs lick wounds my whole life and never really worried about it.
To me it seems like something they are trying to do to help you.
Does it help?? i don't know, but i do know it hasn't hurt.
My sons lab can find the tiniest little scratch and go to work on it.
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Post by johnnybandit on Apr 26, 2024 18:42:19 GMT -5
I've had dogs lick wounds my whole life and never really worried about it. To me it seems like something they are trying to do to help you. Does it help?? i don't know, but i do know it hasn't hurt. My sons lab can find the tiniest little scratch and go to work on it. |
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Post by johnnybandit on Apr 26, 2024 19:10:12 GMT -5
I've had dogs lick wounds my whole life and never really worried about it. To me it seems like something they are trying to do to help you. Does it help?? i don't know, but i do know it hasn't hurt. My sons lab can find the tiniest little scratch and go to work on it. Dogs do try to help.... When I got very sick a few weeks back, my ACD Pyro clung to me like glue.... When I would start coughing our Labrador Keely would bark at me in that alert "Timmy is stuck in the well" bark, then run to wherever my wife was in the house and stand there and bark at her until she came and checked on me..
And when I really went downhill and my wife called 911... I barely got down the hall from the bedroom to the family room to sit on the couch and wait for fire rescue, with my wife's help. She needed to get the dogs outside or in their crates, or locked in the garage, somewhere... Keely not so much of an issue but she would have gotten in the way.... Pyro was an issue, because he would see the fire rescue folks as intruders and no way he would let them work on me, much less haul me away... My wife was trying to tell the dogs to go in their crates (we call it, go in your house) They were ignoring her because they were not leaving my side.... It took every bit of what little strength and breath I had, to lean forward and in my "I am not fucking around voice" Tell them to get the fuck in their houses.... They did...
Things got fuzzy after that.... I remember an EMT Say to the others (they were getting vitals, etc) say okay we are going... Load him up now... And then I remember talking on a radio or phone and saying we are inbound and describing the patient and issues and using the term acute respiratory failure. I met her again the next day. She came by to check on me at the hospital... And to return my drivers license... They got me out of there so fast, they never gave it back to my wife. She was very nice. A lieutenant EMT with Hillsborough County Fire.... She is also an RN and works at Brandon Hospital.
Anyway a couple of days later as I was getting a little better.... It crossed my mind... That all my dogs were trying to do is care for me and protect me.. And the last thing I said to them was get the fuck in your houses in the most nasty serious voice I could manage... before they watched a bunch of people take me away.... I felt a little bad... But when I got home five days later... They did not give a shit.... I had to scold them a little then as well so they would not knock me down with excitement. They would hardly let me out of their sight for Days... Heck even Cheese the cat would not leave my side.....
I remember the first real shower I took after I got home... My wife had gone and got me one of those medical shower chairs because I got out of breath doing the smallest task.... We do not usually shut interior doors tight... No need. Just my wife and I.... And if a door is not shut tight, the dogs and cats can get in or out of a room if they want. So I was sitting in the shower chair, I pulled the shower curtain back and there was a Black Labrador, a Red Cattle Dog and an orange tabby cat sitting there staring at me in the shower.
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Apr 26, 2024 19:17:47 GMT -5
Cool story John.
Whoever said pets are people to was correct.
The instinct they have is crazy weird.
Hope you are doing better.
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Post by stc1993 on Apr 26, 2024 21:15:00 GMT -5
Dogs are a good way to get H. Pylori. The zoonotic risk of catching H. Pylori from an animal, while possible is almost nil.... And canines tend to have a strong resistance to most strains of H. Pylori. The most common strain of H Pylori that humans get, is largely non existent in dogs and most other small animals.
The most common way people get H. Pylori is direct saliva contact from another human. And there is really no way to know if the person you are swapping spit with has it. Because in a significant number of humans that have H Pylori there are no symptoms and it causes them no issues... Only a small percentage of humans that get H. Pylori get peptic ulcers or other gastric ailments.
Doctor told me you can get it from handling dogs and not washing your hands. |
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Post by johnnybandit on Apr 26, 2024 23:34:26 GMT -5
The zoonotic risk of catching H. Pylori from an animal, while possible is almost nil.... And canines tend to have a strong resistance to most strains of H. Pylori. The most common strain of H Pylori that humans get, is largely non existent in dogs and most other small animals.
The most common way people get H. Pylori is direct saliva contact from another human. And there is really no way to know if the person you are swapping spit with has it. Because in a significant number of humans that have H Pylori there are no symptoms and it causes them no issues... Only a small percentage of humans that get H. Pylori get peptic ulcers or other gastric ailments.
Doctor told me you can get it from handling dogs and not washing your hands.
Doctor who? A general practitioner in South Georgia? Or a board certified Hematologist or similar? Because I see a well respected Board Certified Hematologist almost weekly... Since 2016... Dr. Julio Lautersztain Look him up... I will give you the link... Call him.. Early in my auto immune disorder saga... People started telling me I was going to have to get rid of my dogs and our cats... He laughed at that... At the time there was discussion of a bone marrow transplant... I told him... If we were going to do extreme measures.... That included sending my dogs away for months or giving them away... We can stop now... Because it is not going to happen...
He laughed and said... We are a long way from anything like that... Where did you here that you might have to give up your dogs and cats... I said my sister... He said... Hmm does your sister have dogs or cats? I said yea... a dog and a cat.... He said do you like them... I said yea.. they are cool... He said.... Well tell your sister... We are a long way from anything extreme and it will probably not happen... But if it does.... Her dog and cat can visit you in person from day one.. but it could be up to a year before she can visit you in person...
I did not know shit about H. Pylori... Until you brought it up..... But I looked it up... on Google Scholar, Mayo Clinic etc.... I quickly learned.... That the only strain that affects dogs.... Does not like humans... And the main strain that humans get... does not affect dogs.... there is slightly more than zero percent chance that a human catches the disease from a dog and less than one percent chance from catching it from cats....
Most Transmission is from human to human and close to half the human population carries the disease.,.... the majority it does not affect.... But some it does... But it is not a stain that dogs or cats get in most cases...
Simple fact is... you have far more greater risk of contracting H Pylori from getting a kiss on the cheek from your Aunt Edna... Than you are from deep throat tongue kissing then thousand dogs in third world countries.
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Post by cadman on Apr 27, 2024 6:27:18 GMT -5
The zoonotic risk of catching H. Pylori from an animal, while possible is almost nil.... And canines tend to have a strong resistance to most strains of H. Pylori. The most common strain of H Pylori that humans get, is largely non existent in dogs and most other small animals.
The most common way people get H. Pylori is direct saliva contact from another human. And there is really no way to know if the person you are swapping spit with has it. Because in a significant number of humans that have H Pylori there are no symptoms and it causes them no issues... Only a small percentage of humans that get H. Pylori get peptic ulcers or other gastric ailments.
Doctor told me you can get it from handling dogs and not washing your hands. I never heard of it, but Google says something like 50% of people have the bacteria in their gut and never know it. It can cause peptic ulcers and that is the only time it is usually tested for and then treated with antibiotics. H. Pylori is the last thing I am going to worry about. |
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Post by gardawg on Apr 27, 2024 20:28:40 GMT -5
JB ... glad you are home and feeling better. good luck with those health challenges  |
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Post by gardawg on Apr 27, 2024 20:34:12 GMT -5
now back to having a dog licking a wound. this topic reminded me of a Carl Hiaasen book called "Double Whammy" set in Florida there was a drug addicted wheelchair thief who managed to get his arm bit by a pit bull who would not release even after the guy killed the dog. so he cut off the dogs' head and just left it clamped to his arm. As the wound got more and more infected the guy went crazier and crazier. Hiaasen at his best. Portraying Florida Man as only he can. that's all. |
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