Delicious dogs are born with a feeding attribute, and gluttony is a common feature of dogs. Due to the dog's aggrieved eyes, many shoveling officials will feed the dog too much or feed the food that is not suitable for the dog to eat, and enteritis will follow.
How much do you know about enteritis?
Enteritis is one of the common digestive system diseases in dogs. There are many reasons for dog enteritis, which are mainly divided into primary and secondary.
Onset symptoms
At the beginning of the disease, the dog will have the symptoms of lack of energy, no appetite, indigestion, accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea, and mucus in the stool.
If it is not treated in time, it will aggravate the disease. In the later stage of the disease, the dog may have symptoms of unstable walking, foul-smelling bloody stools, elevated body temperature, and even drooling, foaming and spasm. Finally, the dog will be severely dehydrated and even life-threatening!
How to diagnose?
1 blood routine examination, may find the dog white blood cell elevation, hematocrit increased. This indicates that the dog may be infected and dehydrated.
2 film examination, through the pet hospital professional equipment, perspective to observe whether the dog's intestinal tract has foreign body, flatulence. Or use a contrast agent to observe whether the dog's intestines are blocked.
Treatment methods
cause enteritis of different causes, treatment methods are also different, the doctor will be based on the dog's situation to determine the specific treatment plan, the following methods are for reference only.
1 treatment of primary disease, such as foreign body caused by enteritis first remove foreign body, infectious disease caused by enteritis first treatment of infectious diseases and so on.
2 Intravenous infusion to supplement the body fluids that the dog has reduced due to vomiting or drinking water, replenish energy, and maintain the dog's basic nutritional needs.
3 by way of injection or medication, relieve the dog vomiting diarrhea.
4 symptomatic treatment, if the dog has other manifestations, should be treated according to the dog's symptoms.
Preventive measures
If you want to prevent enteritis, you have to start with good eating habits. The following are the enteritis preventive measures specially compiled by Dr. E. Please take notes by shoveling officials:
1 regular quantitative feeding, to avoid the dog due to uneven hunger and satiety or overeating and indigestion, causing enteritis disease.
2 on time deworming, regular vaccine, do not let the secondary enteritis organic can take advantage.
3 Do not abuse antibiotics, too much antibiotics easily lead to intestinal flora imbalance, easy to cause double infection, and secondary enteritis.
4-day regular care can be supplemented with appropriate amounts of probiotics to promote dog gastrointestinal digestion, improve dog gastrointestinal function, and reduce the incidence of enteritis.
5 pay attention to food hygiene, avoid the dog from eating unclean food and suffer from enteritis.