The disease in dogs is called Piroplasmosis ( check Google) and can be treated with a product called CARBESIA .
This is a different condition, my friend. Your information only muddies the water. Lyme disease is treated with very commonly available antibiotics that every pharmacy and almost every vet will have in stock.
I might be wrong here, but I was under the impression that Lymes was a notifiable disease in Scotland?
You are correct.
Is it possible to inocculate ur dogs aggainst lymes (any vets?)
There is no vaccine available in this country. They are available elsewhere but only reduce the risk and are associated with high number of vaccine reactions. The rules here are very strict as far as licensing medicines go and I suspect it's not a good enough or safe enough vaccine to get a UK licence.
The problem is that really the only way to test for lyme disease is a blood test and the test will only tell you that the dog has created an antibody. Unfortunately this does not tell you that the dog has a current infection, it may have had an infection in the past.
You are half right! What you say would be true of an antibody test, but we now have test that look for fragments of DNA (called PCR tests) that look for the pathogen itself. If it come back as positive the dog is carrying the disease. It's very sensitive and can detect dogs before they have made an antibody response. The PCR would likely be the test of choice.
I am convinced that one of my Jack Russels passed away due to the end result of Lyme's, I remember taking a tick off his ear flap, the site was easily found by the lump that was left, he got progressively worse & as he was very old, it did not occur to me that Lyme's could be the cause.
Very unlikely. It tends to prefer young dogs. Your dog was probably old, the tick a coincidence.
She was back a few days from France. Vet does a blood test, Piroplasmosis, and there seems to be no cure ready available in Belgium. Delivery time 2/3 days, mortal in 48 hours. She drives with the dog about 2 hours into France to a vet which has the treatment readily available. The dog died on the way back home.
Still a different disease...........
Please remember it's rare in dogs. They did a study back in 2005 where they did the PCR test on 120 dogs and cats and only 7 came back as positive. They were in the following areas:
Cat B burgdorferi Enniskillen, Fermanagh Chronic recurrent fever, renal disease
Cat B burgdorferi Swindon, Wiltshire Chronic recurrent fever, weight loss
Cat A phagocytophilum Scarborough, North Yorkshire Acute fever, weakness, lethargy
Dog A phagocytophilum Frome, Somerset Bleeding from surgical site, splenomegaly
Dog B burgdorferi Edinburgh, Lothian Chronic recurrent fever, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly
Dog B burgdorferi Biggin Hill, Kent Uveitis, ocular disease
Dog B burgdorferi Broadway, Gloucestershire Chronic recurrent fever, lethargy
Dog B burgdorferi Swindon, Wiltshire Acute fever, lethargy, weakness
Dog B burgdorferi Scarborough, North Yorkshire Acute fever, lethargy, weakness