Maxwell was diagnosed with asthma, tentatively, a few years ago after going through rounds of coughing and wheezing. Turns out, he had chronic pneumonia for several years, which was masked by the steroids he was taking for IBD. In september, he went on massive antibiotics for a month and cleared it up. A month ago, we were at the emergency vet for a severe asthma attack requiring oxygen tent and albuterol. It was awful for about two weeks, having to give him albuterol puff from my own inhaler several times a day. It's really scary when they cough. My point is to make sure that you stay on top of things and communicate with your vet with any changes in symptoms. I keep wondering if we'd caught the pneumonia sooner, whether he'd have developed the asthma.
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