Carol N
Hello Dr Will... I'm a member of your Pack and am learning so much from you. I have been anti-animal vaccines for years and after a lot of research, am anti-human vaccines as well. It is a deep, dark rabbit hole filled with cognitive dissonance! :(
But I have a quick question pls. A friend of mine has 8 doggos. One just recently joined the pack from living on the street. A couple of months later her tiny teacup Chihuahua was diagnosed with distemper. I've been helping her with treatment... using high dose Vitamin A and Vitamin C, andrographis... and just recently we found a local homeopath (we are in MX) who mixed up a homeopathic nerve remedy for the tiny guy.
So far he is responding well... he has some leg twitches and we are hoping the homeopathic treatment will help with that.
My question... the little street guy and the chihuahua are good buddies... the puppy is now about 6 months old and we are going to find him a home in the states. So of course vaccinations come up... only rabies is required to enter the US thank goodness. However, new families want to know the puppies are vaccinated.
My question is... since this puppy has undoubtedly been exposed to the distemper virus (no symptoms at all tho), would giving him a vaccination FOR distemper cause him problems? It's so hard to get individual vaccinations these days.
I have not been able to find any info re vaccinating if a pup has previously been exposed. Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get his titers tested locally, but kind of doubt that. Perhaps will need to order a kit online.
Can you please let me know if vaccination following exposure can cause some problems? Thank you so much.