My Yorkie Bichon Mix » reverse sneeze http://www.myyorkiebichon.com Jack Magoo Costello at his best Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:28:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What is a Reverse Sneeze? http://www.myyorkiebichon.com/what-is-a-reverse-sneeze/ http://www.myyorkiebichon.com/what-is-a-reverse-sneeze/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:59:19 +0000 admin http://www.myyorkiebichon.com/?p=52 Over the two years we’ve had Jack, he will occasionally start having these episodes where it sounds like he is having trouble breathing.  His body gets stiff, back arches and he makes this weird sound.  After doing a little pokeing around on the internet it turns out that some dogs have this reflex called Reverse Sneezing.  It isn’t bread specific and at least, in Jack, doesn’t happen too often.  I’d say that he’ll probably have an episode once every few months, but it’ll happen a few times over an hour or so.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O7hfVNqdMc

Jack will stop after a few minutes, but to help your dog stop reverse sneezing a little quicker you have to get them to swallow.  An easy trick for doing this is to cover their nose and that’ll make your pup swallow.  I’ve tested this out on Jack and it works very well.  He will swallow and the reverse sneezing will usually come to an end.  I don’t believe there is a cure for it, but we are going to show the video to our vet when Jack goes in for his yearly checkup next month.

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