Among the skin diseases of dogs, mite skin diseases are very common, and there are many kinds of mites, which are commonly mixed with pyoderma and fungi. Shovel excrement officer is faced with this kind of complex situation, often helpless or blind processing, how to drive away them? Parasites in the skin, you need to know.
Classification of mites
1. Sarcoptic Mites
Sarcoptes scabiei is the most common mite, with a high incidence in stray dogs. They are good at digging "tunnels" in the epidermis of dog skin and secreting allergenic substances, thus causing severe itching and inflammatory reactions in dogs. Dogs may have a lot of dander and many symptoms of hair loss all over the body.
2. Demodex
Demodex is usually transmitted by the mother during the first seven days of life and is the only mite that can be "inherited.". Demodex mites usually coexist harmoniously with dogs and carry them for life. Only when dogs'immunity declines, Demodex mites multiply excessively and cause skin diseases.
Mites are confirmed
The two mites have different forms and are highly recognizable. Professional veterinarians can confirm the cause of the disease through dog symptoms, skin manifestations, and skin scraping microscopy. It is not excluded that there may be mixed infections with fungi or bacteria, which require symptomatic treatment to solve skin problems.
How to treat mites
Confirm the specific type of mite, control the secondary infection, according to the specific infection situation, external use of anti-mite spray, liniment, anthelmintic drops, if necessary, injection of anti-mite injection. Because mites can expand rapidly, local medication may not have obvious effect, and need to be combined with systemic bath lotion for adjuvant treatment.
Prevent mite diseases
1. Do a good job of external deworming.
Spring and summer humid season is a period of frequent mite skin diseases, dogs like to play in the lawn bushes and other places where parasites are most active, easy to "provoke the upper body of insects", shoveling excrement officers can use external mite repellent to control the time dogs stay outside to reduce the risk of infection.
2. Avoid contact with strange dogs
In addition to direct contact with mites, contact between healthy dogs and dogs with mite skin diseases is also one of the important ways of infection. Therefore, shoveling officials should pay attention to avoiding contact between their dogs and sick animals.
3. Strengthen skin disease resistance
Dog malnutrition, physical emaciation can also lead to low skin disease resistance, shoveling excrement officer can give dogs appropriate nutrition, enhance physical fitness, regular sunshine, feeding fish oil, lecithin, vitamin A to enhance skin immunity, raise healthy skin and hair is the most critical barrier against skin diseases.
