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hi...
this is about my pet coker spaniel of 13 months...

i have got  cbc done and his leukocyte count are 35.34 and neutrophil are 31.09

 shown a doc and he says he is carrying sum blood bacterial infection.... though now fever is not there ..doctor has given following treatment
rl -500, momocef anti biotic ---1 he has given 250 and 2day 350 and from 2days 500 thru interavenus.with painkiller and multi vitamin  
what he maid me understood that he has developed a tounsils kind situation with lots of wounds inside the throat... from where the bacteris has travelled in blood and has atacked his  bones of legs...   and on this treatment he is responding even like he culd walk now ... eat on his own etc..

. hope he is geting right treatment and would recover? and what are the things which i have to take care off...."
how much time he would take to recover...even during this time he gets litle drowsy and with less energetic in mornings...

regards anu

Answer
As long as he is getting the proper antibiotics and is showing improvement he should recover completely.

I have never heard of a dog getting tonsillitis so bad that he had wounds in his throat. He must have gotten septicemia from the infection- blood poisoning- to have it attack his legs.  

He will be tired in the mornings and in general while fighting off this infection. Some medications can make them drowsy too. Just continue what your vet told you to do.

There is now way to know how long it will take him to recover. When he has energy and is eating and playing then you will know he is better.

I hope he recovers completely.  

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