It was Hunter's 3rd ProHeart6 injection thatcaused his AIHA. I would have never suspected it if not for my vet saying, after we went over everything in the previous 2 months and ProHeart ws he only thing different, "When it comes time for his next ProHeart injection, we are going back onto the pills." In my research AFTER his death I found most had reactions after the lst injection, but many after 2ed, or 3rd, and in one case, it was the 4th.
Seven year old Bandit, a border collie in wisconsin went into seizure 10 hours after his 4th injection. He had never had a seizure in his life. They could not reach their vet, so had to take him to the ER. The seizure would not stop, even with the drugs. The only way it was stopped was to completel put him under, but it started back up as soon as he started to come around. Thirtty six hours after the ProHeart6 injection, 26 hours after THE seizure started, Bandit was dead. The vet said it WAS the ProHeart6 that ddi it. Sue told her story here but I do not know how to go about locating it. I do know it would have been late 2003 or early 2004. Bandit died Oct 16, 2003, the same day my Hunter died and Sue and I are still in contact and every year on Oct. 16, we e-mail each other about our boys being at the bridge together, both killed by ProHeart6, both died the same day, both were young (Hunter 4, Bandit 7) and both were "mutilated" in way. I had a necropsy done on Hunter and the ER vet "had" to send in Bandit's head to check for rabies since he had never had a seizure before. We feel they just have to be together.
he other dogs that I knw of in our little town, aGreatDane collapsed before it even got out of the vet's. A chihuahua belonging to our insurance mans receptionist got a huge lump at injection site and was sick for over a week, needing to see the vet a couple of times. A standard poodle belinging to one of the ladies that sits behind me in church, and lives a couple of streets over, developed a gastric problem with her firt injection and Amber was on antibiotics the rest of her life (4 years) because if she stopped, she started bleeding. Was on other drugs also. andthe other is anAustralian Shepherd that got really sick after first injection, but they did not think it was the ProHeart. However, it was so bad after 2ed injectio--dog almost died--there was no doubt. The guy signed a release with Fort Dodge and could not go public about it, but did tell me. I was wearing my anti=PorHeart6 with Hunter and Bandit's pictures when I happened to meet him in Walmart over in next town...but I had heart the story from one of the techs at my vet's WHO WOULD NOT USE PROHEART6. This dog will be on drugs the rest of it's life--autoimmun disorder.
And how right Callie is about a dog suddenly develope a reaction. My KayCee had not roblem with her puppy vax, nor her first annual vax, but in 30 minutes of getting her 2ed set of annual vax, she had huge hives, eyes swollen almost shut, each ear must have covered by an entire hibve as each ear was very thick, the under side red. Her tummy was as red as a fire engine. She had lumps on her muzzle that looked like pencil derasers under the skin. Most frightening, her temp was 106.9. We had been the last ones in that Good Friday and had planned to go to services that night, but wee running late and decided not to go. THANK GOD as KayCee could have died. I gave her benadryl, called my vet's answering service and we wrapped her in wet towel and was pouring cool (not cold) water over the towel while waiting for call from vet. His wife called called (he had been in church when paged, called her and told her he was on the way to hospital, call us) We are only a mile from hospital and got her right there and he was waiting with injections.
We stayed til her temp dropped below either 102 or 103, I don't remember which, and he told me to continue takingher temp every 30 minutes, or sooner if she started acting strange again. But all was fine. He wrote on the cover of her chart in huge letters RABIES ONLY even tho he suspected it was the lepto. Also, our state says rabies every 3 years, but allows eachcounty and city to make their own law, with city overriding county, county over rding state. Both our county and ou little town sa rabies every year. But he bucked that and ever after gave her rabies every 3rd year. I lost this girl last May 25 to cancer at 8 yrs 9 months and 1 week of age. I am posting a picture of her laying out by the boungavilia bush where Hunter is buried. She over laid there and we said she was visiting her brother's grave---they were littermates--and i took pictures of her there at different times. Her ashes are buried there beside Hunter. The ashes of our golden we lost ot heart attack May 15, 2007 (1 year 10 days before we lost KayCee) is there also.
but since these things all happened not with the first vx or injection, but later ones, I think this shows that the more often our dgos get these things, the more likly a reaction is to happen. Happened o my aunt with penecillin. She had taken it for years, developed such a reaction to it a single injection could have killed her. My vet does the 3 year vax schedule now..except for law required yearly rabies, and he buck that when he thinks it is necesary for the safety of the dog.
