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My dog's tracheal collapse cough won't stop. What treatments work?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Cardigan Welsh Corgi | Male | neutered | 16 years and 4 months old | 15 lbs

my dog is coughing a lot from tracheal collapse. Regular cough suppresant is not working and antibiotics seem to make it worse, any suggestions what I can give him

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Answered By Jenny, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on March 26th, 2018

There is. Itching over the counter but different things work for different people. You can talk to your vet about off label use of cerenia that helps and can be given every 2-3 days once controlled. They make several types of cough suppressants. I do. It know which one you are in but different ones can be caked cough tabs, hycodan syrup or butorphanol tablets. You can look into adding these to help. Steroids can be given but may or may not help based on each individual dog

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