Dogs get along with us day and night, and their company becomes more and more important in people's daily life, but is the excrement shoveler aware of certain zoonotic infectious diseases? For example, zoonotic eye nematodes-conjunctival sucking nematodes
Conjunctival sucking nematodes
Conjunctival sucking nematodes, also known as oriental nematodes, are a class of nematodes parasitic on lacrimal ducts, instant membranes or conjunctival sac of mammals and birds.
How do dogs get infected?
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The dog is parasitized by conjunctival suction nematodes → the dog's eyes become inflamed and secretions increase, attracting fruit flies to bite → fruit flies inhale parasite eggs to develop into larvae → bite human eyes to send larvae into human eyes and develop into adults.
Symptoms and manifestations
Dogs infected with the nematode will have eye inflammation, eye droppings, and white parasite activities can be seen directly on the surface of the eyeball.
How to handle it
1 Timely medical treatment
The excrement shoveling officer found that the dog's eyes were abnormal and needed to send the dog to the hospital. After eye drops were used to anesthetize the worms, the parasites were taken out. After the worm body is removed, it will not relapse as long as it is no longer in contact with fruit flies.
2 Regular deworming
Repellent for dogs can also avoid infection, conjunctival sucking nematode like roundworm also belongs to nematode, regular feeding repellent roundworm repellent can also drive it away.
3 pay attention to environmental health
The main measures to prevent infection are to prevent flies, improve environmental sanitation, strengthen the management of dogs and cats and other animals, and pay special attention to eye cleaning.
