swollen glands

Question
Hi i have a 3 yr old mini schnauzer called Mia.

Every time Mia gets clipped/groomed her saliva glands become swollen and she tends to vomit.
I have had to take her off dog biscuits as this irritates her throat too.
She's now on a freeze dried raw diet 'k9' product.
Shes had heaps of antibiotics over the last 3 years and also medicines to treat allergies to see if that would help her in anyway, which it didn't.
She had a saliva gland biopsy and it came back as  infected salvia gland.
It just seems weird that it flares up after using the clippers around her neck/throat area.
I don't know what to do or where to go from here .. have you ever heard of this before in other dogs?
Can you help?

Answer
No I haven't heard of clippers irritating salivary glands. There is no direct connection to this but I would suspect that the dog gets very upset being groomed which leads to the vomiting.

I would have the salivary gland removed if it was infected. What is the point of keeping it in there if it's causing these issues. They can lose one and not be affected by it.

Raw diets will have no affect on this either. They do, however, affect their overall health status for the worse. Raw diets are NOT recommended by vets for very good reason. Dogs do not get the nutrition they need from them. They are no longer raw if they are freeze dried freezing is like cooking them.

Could be a tonsil issue causing the infection to leak down into the glands. She could have a tonsillectomy and see if that will help.

Tonsil infections are more common in dogs than people realize, but salivary gland infections are much more rare.

Get another opinion from a vet and mention tonsils.

I hope you find the cause.