An important way to care for pets is to respect their nature, but also to avoid potential risks. We all know that dogs love to eat bones, but not what "bones" can be eaten casually.
It turns out that Sprite is only 4 months old and is at a naughty age. It is curious about everything and has a greedy mouth. It often can't help picking up things and turning over garbage. This time, Sprite saw that the owner had forgotten to tidy up the chicken bones on the tea table after eating the chicken. Sprite could not resist the "power of the wild" and immediately ate all the chicken bones.
Later, when the owner was playing with Sprite, he found that it had spit out chicken bones. Then Sprite vomited afflictively five times. Among the vomit were leftover chicken neck, chicken feet, etc., and the vomiting was accompanied by liquid several times later. The owner was worried about stealing chicken bones to bring more serious damage to Sprite, so he went to see a doctor.
Clinical examination and diagnosis of Sprite
Sprite came to the hospital before, immunization and deworming have done, normal stool, mental state is also good. The doctor performed auscultation on Sprite and found that the heart and lungs were normal. But when palpation, Sprite's abdomen obviously feels pain, ear canal, skin is not abnormal, visible mucous membrane pink.
After the DR examination of Sprite, the doctor found that Sprite's gastrointestinal tract has a large number of bones, and intestinal gas is more serious.
Blood routine examination also reality Sprite elevated lymphocytes.
After the results of the comprehensive examination, the doctor initially judged that there was a foreign body in Sprite's intestine.
Sprite's Treatment Plan
1 take vomiting first
The doctor decided to take the treatment plan of emesis first. After two emesis, Sprite vomited some chicken bones, including ginger and anisis. After inducing vomiting, the doctor performed an X-ray review, but there were still a large number of chicken bones in Sprite's stomach.
2 surgical treatment to remove foreign body
After the owner of Sprite communicated in detail, the doctor decided to operate on Sprite, cut the stomach and intestinal tract of Sprite cake, and take out all the chicken bones it ate.
Because the chicken bones eaten by Sprite were very broken, and the hair wrapped around the intestines and stomach led to a long operation, the bones were finally found in Sprite's intestines, and the intestines were cut open, finally all the chicken bones were taken out.
Fortunately, the owner of Sprite took it to see a doctor in time and took out a large number of foreign bodies in the intestinal tract as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable and life-threatening!
The wake-up call of Sprite's illness experience
Bones are the most common gastrointestinal foreign bodies in dogs. Both small dogs and medium and large dogs can eat bones by mistake.
How to avoid gastrointestinal foreign body crisis
Correcting the dog's habit of stealing mouths and picking up food
The dog's long-term accumulation of behavioral habits and emotional changes and other factors make the dog particularly greedy, in the face of human leftovers will always be irresistible to steal.
In the face of Chanzui Wang, the owner should help the dog adjust with a normal and positive attitude.
Don't give the dog a chance.
In daily life, the chicken, duck bones or other large pieces of food that the owner throws into the trash can should be cleaned up in time. You can choose a dense trash can with a lid.
Avoid pica
Because the feeding nutrition is not balanced, the dog is easy to cause pica due to lack of minerals and vitamins, steal to eat bones.
Do regular deworming
