This post is more of a rant than anything, so I apologise if it’s kind of all over the place.
My puppy (6 m/o Cocker Spaniel) has been undergoing treatment for Giardia for the last couple of months with no success. We’ve done a full round of febendazole, followed by three rounds of metronidazole, to no avail. He’ll stabilise throughout the course of his medication, but once he’s off it, he’ll slowly revert back to having bouts of diarrhoea and will continue to test positive. The last round was so bad (vomiting and completely liquid stool) that I was genuinely scared for him.
Right now, he’s on a 10-day course of metronidazole, along with esomeprazole and a slew of probiotics and B12 (plus a short course of Protexin). I’m not confident he’ll test negative this time either, and I’m at a loss.
I don’t understand what I’ve been doing wrong. I’ve been disinfecting everything, cleaning all his bedding and toys, poop scooping religiously, and wiping him after every trip outside. I’m low-key hoping for a miracle cure, but I know that’s not possible, lol. Has anyone been through something similar? What did you try that did (or didn’t) work?
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