https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/25532/pomeranian-with-tracheobronchial-malacia My sister lives in the USA and her old pom has a chronic cough. I suspect Tracheaobronchial collapse given the signalment and nature of the cough. His resting resp rate is 16/min. He does also have mitral valve disease but Not in heart failureen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/176018?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:06:30 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:69c85571-6299-43a1-aee6-ecff3cceb9dacathal rafferty<p>I listened to a very good bsava congress podcast on this by phil padrid only last week. He said his first priority is to stop the cough as it is self perpetuating. He uses very high doses of codiene, enough to make the dog quite sleepy. Steroids are ok but only for a few days. There will often be mucosal kissing lesions when the collapse is severe. Weight control and avoidance is cigarette smoke very important. Last point was he felt there&#39;s no role for bronchodilators, as there is no smooth muscle spasm. It is a cartilage disease</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/176002?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:51:38 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:41be1139-f674-42e0-b06c-5d0f4c5ea60cRobin Grimmer<p>Thanks for that! Here&#39;s the link:</p> <p>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsap.12436/full</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/175991?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:57:08 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:f80602c4-aa89-402c-8ad9-6fc557d756f5Jenny Harris<p>I think there was a good JSAP article on management of canine traheal collapse which I read a while ago- if you can find it! Think it was 2016</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>