*Lolapalooza* Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 (edited) My 3 year old usually healthy girl had a MASSIVE nose bleed at 4 am this morning. My house looked like there had been a murder and she managed to get it in every room even the shower! I had heard her snuffing and licking but thought one of the dogs was licking their feet. After a bit I got up and saw my poor love covered in blood. I tried to stop it with pressure and ice, it would clot then she would snuff out the clot and it would go again, I rang my vet after 30 mins and said I cant stop it. Soooooo at 5.15 this morning he had to give her a General Anaesthetic to look up her nostril (only one bleeding, not a clotting disorder as vWD Clear and clotted fine, Packed Cells ok on Blood test was 44), we initially had it stopped at the vet but as soon as I put her back in the car to go home she snotted it out again so GA it was. The vet saw no foreign body, no wound and had to tightly stuff a big ribbon gauze in her nose which needs to stay for 3 days. It appeared to be bleeding from higher up than he could see. I called her breeder (a vet nurse in Vic) who alled her boss who thinks it might have been a leech (apparently they bleed like stuck pigs when the leech detatches) Do we even have leeches in SA? Yesterday about 3 pm she had a tiny trickle of blood from her nose (same side) but it stopped spontaneously. SHe had just been playing with a piece of dry leafy stick that my feral puppy had pulled off a tree so I assumed was a poke in the nose. She hasnt hit her head or played rough with anyone lately. This is freaking me out any ideas? Edited April 19, 2009 by *Lolapalooza* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puggy_puggy Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Oh how worrying. Did the vet quarterize it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lolapalooza* Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 No he couldnt find the exact spot. He said if he had to operate to find it they would go thru the roof of her mouth or her muzzle. Its shit, I hope it just stops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassie Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Ohhhh Is this Sugar? Poor girl Hope it works out ok and surgery is not needed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lolapalooza* Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 Yeeees poor Sugs. Shes been the perfect child until now She sneezed her packing out about half an hour ago by the time I got to the crate it was half out ....says a lot for giant strawberry noses and the force of their sneezes.... so far ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Bit of a worry Leech? has she been swimming, or in swampy areas?? Sounds doubtful. All I can think of is a burst blood vessel from sneezing??? Hope she is ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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