Re: Need prayers and advice for Ginger

[Lernermichelle]

Thank you! I put it on my list to ask the internist tomorrow! Michelle   In a message dated 5/8/05 3:19:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:   I'm behind, and I hope this message finds Ginger feeling better.  I wanted to mention something about Ginger's mouth.  I wrote a while back about 2 of my negatives who were having mouth problems.  They had dentals, and within a month their breath was just awful again.   When I took them to the vet they had infected gums.  The vet said she wanted to test them for bartonella (not hemobartonella).  They tested positive and she put them on 21 days of azithromycin.  Now their gums have healed up and are not inflamed or infected....  I can absolutely not even smell their breath at all!   The doctor said that they are finding more and more that chronic mouth problems are helped by this.  The test took about a week.  I don't know where they had to send it.  From what I understand it's kind of like hemobart in that the antibiotic doesn't completely rid their bodies of the bartonella, but decreases the amount present.   She mentioned other infections that have reacted well to this, but I really didn't pay attention as we were not dealing with anything else.    Just an idea.