If the dog is bitten by an encephalitic tick, this is the reason for immediate treatment in the veterinary clinic, since the consequences of such a bite can be very severe, even to the death of the pet. Unfortunately, cases when the dog owner does not immediately see the consequences of the bite are not uncommon, sometimes they appear in one to two weeks.
Encephalitic tick can cause pyroplasmosis - a very dangerous disease, which often ends with a lethal outcome or negative manifestations related to the health of the dog. Signs of pyroplasmosis appear on the third-seventh day.
Signs and symptoms of a dog bite by an encephalitis mite
The signs and symptoms of a bite of encephalitic mite in dogs differ from those that are observed when piroplasmosis is infected.
Encephalitic tick in dogs can have various symptoms, it is possible to confirm the exact diagnosis only with the help of clinical, laboratory tests, X-ray diagnostics, tomography, bacteriological culture. The bite itself does not cause any reaction in the dog, the symptoms begin to manifest when already infected with any virus or infection.
The first thing that catches your eye is the inadequacy of the behavior of the bitten animal: the paws, especially the back, reduce the spasm, a tremor of the whole body is observed, the dog reacts nervously to the touch. The pet loses its appetite, the temperature rises, heart palpitations begin, vomiting can begin, in the urine there are bloody discharge.
To understand if the encephalitis tick is dangerous for dogs, one should know that a virus that has got into the dog's body after a bite can cause irreversible destructive processes in the pet's brain, due to a purulent, inflammatory effect. And even after a complete cure, the temporarily lost functions are only partially restored.
With timely treatment in the veterinary clinic with the help of droppers, injections with antibacterial, anthelmintic, diuretic, cardiac drugs, the course of restorative therapy, the right diet, the dog can be cured.
Animals that have been infected with tick-borne encephalitis are further exposed to the possibility of "catching" a viral infection, due to weakened immunity, and then a relapse of the disease is possible.
A dog that has transferred encephalitis is prescribed a certain type of food, since the liver after recovery is damaged.