Reverse sneezing
Have you had an experience that your dogs became frozen up and made something similar to gagging sound, and appeared to have breathing problems?
Very first time our stumpy dog "Palette" had such incident, it was very alarming to me and,I felt helpless because I had no idea how to help her to stop them. Also, I did not know what it was.
Asking fellow dog lovers around as to what this is, and how to help the awful situation to stop, one lady has told me that it is called "Reverse sneezing" and it helps them stop if you cover the nose hole to help her breath through mouth,rather than through nose, and rub the neck.
It helped, but it lasted longer than I wish I could stop it. Later on, I noticed that if I sit next to her right hand side and, cover her nose hole with my left hand; my thumb over one hole, second finger on other nose hole and support her chin with my palm and hold her chin with up angle (So, Palette will be looking up with my palm support under her chin), and with my right hand, slowly,gently rub her neck up and down and to calm her down, I talk to her gently "You will be all right." and after a few seconds, the awful gagging goes away.
It seemed a little quicker for the gagging goes away. For our dog "Palette", it does not happen all the time, rather once in about 6 months or so. However, it is one scary moment when it happened for the first time before. Now, I can be calm, and help her calm and stop it for a few seconds. I see that if we human were nervous, dogs could see the emotion in you and, you would like to be calm to let them be calm.
A few weeks ago, this "reverse sneezing" happened to Palette again. It happened right after she has inhaled the fish body oil capsules she gets sometimes along with her meal.
I quickly went to her side,and helped her reverse sneezing to stop. It stopped after a few seconds as usual, but it got me thinking what really cause this horrible reverse sneezing.
What is reverse sneezing?
According to vetinfo.com website, it is a spasm that occur when soft palate or throat becomes irritate. This "reverse sneezing" is also called "pharyngeal gag reflex" because when this condition occur, it seems dogs rapidly pulling air into their nose, while regular sneeze, air gets pushed out when dogs sneeze.
They also explains that when "reverse sneezing" occur, dogs will freeze up, and extend their head/neck,and they will make loud snorting sound.
To read more on reverse sneezing at vetinfo.com, please click here.
For those who are not familiar with "reverse sneezing", bellow is the reverse sneezing youtube video.
Reverse sneezing dogs
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from Facebook,please click here to watch video.
What cause dogs to have "reverse sneezing" episode?
According to peteducation.com website, they point out a few causes.
** Irritation of soft palate,which cause spasm. When spasm occur, dogs have hard time to breath normally.
** excitement
** rapid eating/drinking,exercise
** physical irritation in the throat
** allergy
** irritation by chemical such as perfume,household cleaner
To read the full article at peteducation.com website,please click here.
Considering the situation when Palette had an episode of reverse sneezing, it is most likely be after inhaling something just like recent episode when she inhaled fish body oil capsules or when we went for walk and she was sniffing on the ground and she suddenly froze up and started reverse sneezing,which I can see it could be something got into her nose when she was sniffing the ground on our walk.
If your dogs have reverse sneeze episode very frequently, it maybe good idea to take them to the vet.
I saw youtube comments under another reverse sneezing videos that read to leave the dogs alone and the reverse sneezing will go away on its own eventually. However, when we can help the reverse sneezing episode go away much quicker than let them be and suffer for 1 minutes,2 minutes, would you choose not to help them stop the reverse sneezing?
I would choose to help Palette to stop reverse sneezing. Not being able to breath normally even for a minutes is painful.
Have your dogs had "reverse sneezing" episode?
If so, what situation it occurred?
Very first time our stumpy dog "Palette" had such incident, it was very alarming to me and,I felt helpless because I had no idea how to help her to stop them. Also, I did not know what it was.
Asking fellow dog lovers around as to what this is, and how to help the awful situation to stop, one lady has told me that it is called "Reverse sneezing" and it helps them stop if you cover the nose hole to help her breath through mouth,rather than through nose, and rub the neck.
It helped, but it lasted longer than I wish I could stop it. Later on, I noticed that if I sit next to her right hand side and, cover her nose hole with my left hand; my thumb over one hole, second finger on other nose hole and support her chin with my palm and hold her chin with up angle (So, Palette will be looking up with my palm support under her chin), and with my right hand, slowly,gently rub her neck up and down and to calm her down, I talk to her gently "You will be all right." and after a few seconds, the awful gagging goes away.
It seemed a little quicker for the gagging goes away. For our dog "Palette", it does not happen all the time, rather once in about 6 months or so. However, it is one scary moment when it happened for the first time before. Now, I can be calm, and help her calm and stop it for a few seconds. I see that if we human were nervous, dogs could see the emotion in you and, you would like to be calm to let them be calm.
A few weeks ago, this "reverse sneezing" happened to Palette again. It happened right after she has inhaled the fish body oil capsules she gets sometimes along with her meal.
I quickly went to her side,and helped her reverse sneezing to stop. It stopped after a few seconds as usual, but it got me thinking what really cause this horrible reverse sneezing.
What is reverse sneezing?
According to vetinfo.com website, it is a spasm that occur when soft palate or throat becomes irritate. This "reverse sneezing" is also called "pharyngeal gag reflex" because when this condition occur, it seems dogs rapidly pulling air into their nose, while regular sneeze, air gets pushed out when dogs sneeze.
They also explains that when "reverse sneezing" occur, dogs will freeze up, and extend their head/neck,and they will make loud snorting sound.
To read more on reverse sneezing at vetinfo.com, please click here.
For those who are not familiar with "reverse sneezing", bellow is the reverse sneezing youtube video.
Reverse sneezing dogs
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from Facebook,please click here to watch video.
What cause dogs to have "reverse sneezing" episode?
According to peteducation.com website, they point out a few causes.
** Irritation of soft palate,which cause spasm. When spasm occur, dogs have hard time to breath normally.
** excitement
** rapid eating/drinking,exercise
** physical irritation in the throat
** allergy
** irritation by chemical such as perfume,household cleaner
To read the full article at peteducation.com website,please click here.
Considering the situation when Palette had an episode of reverse sneezing, it is most likely be after inhaling something just like recent episode when she inhaled fish body oil capsules or when we went for walk and she was sniffing on the ground and she suddenly froze up and started reverse sneezing,which I can see it could be something got into her nose when she was sniffing the ground on our walk.
If your dogs have reverse sneeze episode very frequently, it maybe good idea to take them to the vet.
I saw youtube comments under another reverse sneezing videos that read to leave the dogs alone and the reverse sneezing will go away on its own eventually. However, when we can help the reverse sneezing episode go away much quicker than let them be and suffer for 1 minutes,2 minutes, would you choose not to help them stop the reverse sneezing?
I would choose to help Palette to stop reverse sneezing. Not being able to breath normally even for a minutes is painful.
Have your dogs had "reverse sneezing" episode?
If so, what situation it occurred?
All of our dogs have experienced this at one time or another... some more than others. I had heard about covering their nose so they would breathe through their mouths, but not about tipping their heads and rubbing their throats. I will definitely try that the next time it happens. Thanks for the info!
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