Mycotic Rhinitis

To share with all my friends especially all DVM......

Tassy is a lovely Greman Shepherd dog. Looks scary but freindly actually. Did not moaning when I try to sedate her with intramuscular injection. But she made some noise as we wanted to put a muzzle on her in which it will touches her nose. She can't afford to have anything touching her nose because she had an rhinitis!! With all the mucus drooling out like saliva. She has been scoped (rhinoscopy) and confirmed to have mycotic rhinitis (aspergillous) by testing the Asper. antibody titre. We were not able to swab the plague inside the nasal wall because contaminated liao lah..what else..only blood in the swab....So have to take some blood sample.

So she was arranged for an 'nose operation' we called.

Everyone in the clinic was very happy and excited to see the surgery as this is our first attempt to carry out this kind of surgery.

As everyone watching, the surgeon carefully drilled 2 holes on the frontal bone (in between both eye orbit), so that we can get access to the frontal sinus. And then, we run the fluid with some antifungal agent into the sinues for half an hour. Finally filled the sinus with antifungal cream. Can you imagine some creaam in your sinus????

After the surgery, Tassy was doing well except occasional drolling of the antifungal cream in the dog cages. The cream was so disgusting !!!

Tassy was sent home. She come back for a recheck after two days and the sneezing and drooling of mucus was gone...Amazing...