Very often, when faced with diarrhea in your pet, dog breeders act completely wrong, ignoring this unpleasant frustration. But it can sometimes be a sign of dangerous food poisoning or another serious illness. But also to panic, it does not immediately follow. You need to evaluate all the attendant factors and correctly assess the danger that threatens your dog.
Causes of diarrhea in dogs
To the disorder of the intestine can cause different reasons:
- abrupt transition to another food;
- eating poor-quality food;
- the presence of pathogens in the body;
- chronic disease (kidney, liver, spleen);
- dysbiosis;
- the appearance in the digestive tract of worms and other parasites;
- indigestion;
- avitaminosis;
- the presence of a foreign body in the intestine;
- allergy.
If we talk about the treatment of dogs from parasites, it is worth noting that doctors regularly recommend deworming dogs - once in three months, and that in order to maximize the effect of vaccination, doctors also recommend the timely de-worming of dogs - 10-14 days before the scheduled vaccination. An important criterion in the choice of the drug is a wide range of action against the main types of helminths.
How to cure diarrhea in a dog?
- First of all it is advisable not to give within a day, your pet food, limited only to water.
- For the next two days, you can give the patient a rice decoction. To normalize the work of the intestines prescribe dairy products. Avoid feeding for the first time after a dog's diarrhea fatty foods. While she completely recovered, the usual lean broth and boiled rice will do.
- In water, you can dilute the powder Regidron, make a weak tea solution, adding a little sugar. Drinking fluid is allowed to the patient in unlimited quantities.
- Monitor the body temperature of the dog. A significant increase in it indicates undesirable side effects.
- Severe dehydration is treated by injecting into the solution of glucose, Regidron, Ringer. All this should be done only by an experienced doctor.
- Astringent action is possessed by infusions of herbs - St. John's wort, sage, blueberry, aplicata alder and others.
- In the case of a serious disease associated with the infection, antibiotics are used. They should be prescribed as carefully as possible in order not to harm the animal even more.
Frequent diarrhea in a dog can lead to dehydration, a violation of acid-base balance, electrolytic disorder. Sometimes the disorder is very long. If it lasts up to 2 weeks, then such a diarrhea is called acute. Usually he is treated independently by the owner of the dog. Most often, it leads to fatty or poor-quality food. If the diarrhea is accompanied by vomiting, it is possible that your pet has poisoned something. Many breeds of dogs are very sensitive to changes in food (chihuahua, lap-dogs, toy terriers). But if after a few days the diarrhea does not stop, it is worth talking to the veterinarian.
In the case where liquid feces are released for more than 14 days, such diarrhea is already considered chronic. Most often it is a symptom of a dangerous chronic disease or infection (staphylococcus, salmonellosis, helminths, pancreatitis, gastritis and others). It is necessary to determine precisely why the dog has diarrhea, to conduct laboratory tests and immediately begin treatment. On the development of infection in the body of an animal can indicate a high body temperature, accompanying diarrhea. It is important to know that in puppies and adult animals that have not been vaccinated,
A very dangerous symptom is diarrhea and vomiting with blood. This occurs with parvoviral enteritis , atypical form of rabies, infection with protozoa, salmonellosis. Sometimes, the appearance of blood when the walls of the intestine of the dog is damaged by sharp bones or other foreign swallowed object is possible. You need to know exactly what to do when your dog has started such a diarrhea. It is necessary to immediately deliver the animal for examination to a veterinary clinic in order to conduct a full examination of the patient.