Some vets just shouldn't be, seriously

[justjumpit621]

So someone is trying to convince me that their dog's hairloss was found to be caused by lyme disease =P AHAHA! well if the dog had a bacterial infection and just happened to test positive for lyme (which is very common) hte treatment for lyme is antibiotics so the bacterial infection would have cleared up with the lyme treatment and presto! The hairloss was caused by lyme disease!... HAHAHAHAHA

 

[jojackson]

The disease is named after the village of Lyme, Connecticut, USA, where a number of cases were identified in 1975.
There is no such organism or bacteria known as 'lyme' that can be tested for. Its a tick born disease.
Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by Gram negative spirochetal bacteria from the genus Borrelia, which has at least 37 known species, 12 of which are Lyme related, and an unknown number of genomic strains. Borrelia species known to cause Lyme disease are collectively known as Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato.
As to weather it can cause hair loss I dont know, though apparently It can in cats.

 

[Olimpia]

I completely agree though. My first puppy was one I adopted at only 1 month of age, and when I took her to the vet complaining about her runny poop and horrible breath (mind you she was only formula, she's not eating anything else) which is an obvious sign of a digestive problem, and she tells me it's "normal for a puppy." Normal to smell like a garbage dump when she's eating only formula? One week later she was dead from complications caused by an gastrointestinal disease.

Thankfully, she was fired a short time later from that office because ontop of being stupid she was a really rude person. But it's people like that that shouldn't have become vets if they weren't going to be good at it.

 

[Chris Anderson]

So someone is trying to convince me that their dog's hairloss was found to be caused by lyme disease =P AHAHA! well if the dog had a bacterial infection and just happened to test positive for lyme (which is very common) hte treatment for lyme is antibiotics so the bacterial infection would have cleared up with the lyme treatment and presto! The hairloss was caused by lyme disease!... HAHAHAHAHA

Uhh...Lyme Disease is a type of bacterial infection and one of the possible symptoms is unexplained hair loss...

Chris

 

[chambabysitter1]

Sweet thread is sweet.

 

[justjumpit621]

I have never heard of hair loss as a symptom to lyme disease in dogs. But I do know that it is a bacterial infection, hence the dog probably had some other bacterial skin infection as well as lyme and when it was treated for lyme the skin infection also cleared up. I could not find any cases of hair loss from lyme in dogs reported on the internet either.

 

[BocaJan]

Uhh...Lyme Disease is a type of bacterial infection and one of the possible symptoms is unexplained hair loss...

Chris

Thanks Chris