No. 1: heart disease
Symptoms: easy to breathe, easy to fatigue.
Basically, the symptoms of heart disease in pet dogs are very similar to those in humans, which are related to obesity and aging, but unfortunately, owners often delay medical treatment due to negligence, resulting in the death of pet dogs; There are also excitable dogs, which often suffer from acute shock due to inappropriate excessive exercise given by unsuspecting children or relatives and friends when they visit.
In addition to considerable experience, the diagnosis of heart disease needs necessary medical examination equipment, supplemented by long-term medication, regular follow-up and correct feeding management to ensure its safety.
Prevention and treatment: Avoid dog obesity, exercise properly, and do X-ray, blood test, electrocardiogram and Duppler color echocardiography regularly.
Second place: infectious diseases
Symptoms: elevated body temperature, poor mental health, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, acute watery hemorrhagic diarrhea.
The common fatal major malignant infectious diseases are canine distemper and canine parvovirus enteritis. In addition to the owner's failure to implement vaccination (vaccination rate is less than one-third), pet dogs can't manage their own living environment. The way dogs greet each other is indeed much more enthusiastic than humans, which often leads to disease transmission. Therefore, the best advice is to vaccinate regularly to avoid the chance of being infected. If there are new pet dog members in your family, remember to ask the doctor to have a health check first.
Prevention: Be careful not to let pet dogs and other dogs of unknown origin lick each other, take preventive injections regularly, treat them with antiserum and inject a lot of antibiotics.
Third place: malignant tumor
Symptoms: Very few symptoms.
In fact, the malignant tumor of pet dogs is often ignored in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of veterinarians, especially elderly dogs, which are often directly regarded as just dying of old age. Basically, although pet dogs are prone to gain weight in diet, they don't have as many carcinogenic foods as humans, and they can't drink too much and stay up late in daily life, so the proportion is reduced.
How to reduce the occurrence of malignant tumor? Female dog birth control can reduce the occurrence of breast tumors, and male dog birth control can reduce the occurrence of prostate cancer. If the dog is found to have cryptorchidism, it should be removed as soon as possible to avoid interstitial cell carcinoma. When dogs are outdoors, they should avoid exposure to the sun for a long time, avoid epithelial cell cancer, avoid obesity, reduce the use of flea remover and avoid transitional epithelial cell cancer.
Prevention and control: do relevant inspections regularly.
Fourth place: Nephropathy
Symptoms: hematuria, change of urination habits or abnormal urine color.
The terrible kidney problem in dogs is mainly because the course of this kidney disease will be infected unconsciously. When renal problems are found, the damage of renal cells often exceeds 75%.
The main cause of kidney disease is that the pet dog doesn't drink enough water. For his own convenience, the owner limits the number of times the pet dog urinates. For example, they don't like their pet dogs defecating everywhere, and they don't have time to take them outdoors, but they take it for granted that it is not enough for a pet dog to defecate once or twice a day. In addition, many owners often feed their dogs with human food, which damages their kidneys because of the heavy salt burden; Other causes of kidney diseases include ascending urinary tract infection and delayed detection of urinary calculi, which will cause great harm to the kidney.
Prevention and treatment: light diet and normal urination.
Fifth place: canine cardiofilariasis
Symptoms: poor mobility, cough, anemia, ascites, asthma.
Cardiofilariasis is an adult about 10 cm long, parasitic in the heart of pet dogs, causing fatal causes. The route of infection is through mosquito bites. The incidence rate in Taiwan Province Province is quite high. The older you get, the greater the chance of infection.
There are no clinical symptoms in the initial stage of filariasis. The common conditions are poor activity and cough. In severe cases, cachexia will occur, such as anemia, ascites and asthma. At present, there are very simple special detection reagents for diagnosis. The initial cure rate is high, and the later treatment effect is poor.
The treatment of heartworm is deinsectization, which is a complicated process. Doctors must be quite professional. Before deinsectization, it is necessary to evaluate the dog's cardiopulmonary function, including Duppler color echocardiography, and then give the most appropriate treatment. Ordinary prevention is very important. It is best to take preventive medicine regularly every month, plus a blood test in the first half of the year, which can effectively prevent heartworm.
Preventive treatment: take preventive drugs regularly every month and take blood tests once every six months.
6 th place: blood parasites
Symptoms: emaciation, listlessness and pale gingival mucosa.
Among the causes of death caused by blood parasites, pet dog coke disease is the most common. Pyrosis is a blood parasitic disease transmitted by ticks. Coke worm is a protozoan, which can only be seen with a microscope. Worms parasitize red blood cells and destroy them, causing hemolysis and severe anemia. Symptoms usually include emaciation, listlessness and pale gingival mucosa. If it is an acute cola infection, jaundice may occur. Common preventive methods include giving flea drops or sprays regularly to drive away ticks from pet dogs.
Prevention and treatment: regularly use flea drops or sprays to drive away insects.
Seventh place: pneumonia
Symptoms: cough, runny nose
Dogs usually get pneumonia for five reasons. The first is foreign body pneumonia, which mostly occurs in pet dogs with abnormal upper digestive system. Incorrect feeding methods and improper anesthesia treatment are also easy to occur. Varieties with short neck, short nose and short snout are most likely to appear; The second type is fungal pneumonia, which has a high incidence in large dogs. Different molds are also specific to different breeds, and the incidence rate of male dogs is three times that of female dogs. The third kind of lung function damage, that is to say, alveolar tissue damage, is often the secondary symptom of canine distemper infection; The fourth type is bacterial pneumonia, and the incidence of large dogs and puppies with large exercise is higher; Finally, immune pneumonia, congenital immunodeficiency causes lung infection, and heartworm infection is also a common cause.
In addition to the typical symptoms, a large number of yellow-like secretions (nasal pus) will appear in the nasal cavity of pet dogs; Besides blood test and X-ray, bacterial culture and drug sensitivity test are effective ways to choose drugs. In addition, if aerosol therapy can be provided to help expectoration and drugs can be provided, the auxiliary effect is the best. Young pet dogs often turn into chronic bronchitis after recovering from pneumonia, so be careful.
Prevention and treatment: regular blood drawing and X-ray examination.
Eighth place: pyometra
Symptoms: yellow thick juice is discharged from the vagina or the abdomen gradually becomes bigger.
For many bitches, the threat of uterine empyema is very serious, because bitches grow uterine horns in order to breed more offspring, while bitches without birth control are prone to uterine empyema due to bacterial infection and endocrine abnormalities. There are two kinds of uterine empyema: one is open, and the most obvious symptom is that the dog's vagina will discharge yellow thick juice; The other is the closed type, and the symptom is that the abdomen will gradually become bigger.
The risk of uterine suppuration is high. If the situation is serious, the number of infected bacteria will affect the operation of the heart, and the blood flow of the kidney will be insufficient, leading to uremia and even many times of uterine failure and death.
In order to prevent the injury of pyometra to pet dogs, it is best to go to the hospital for ultrasound and blood test regularly. Unless you want to get your dog pregnant, it's best to surgically remove the uterus and ovaries and only rely on drugs to treat the recurrence. No dog breed is particularly prone to uterine empyema, which is more common in dogs over six years old, and the incidence of bitches who have used estrogen or fertility hormone will also increase. If your pet is female and old, for the sake of future health, ligation is better, which can avoid many fatal diseases and bring a healthy and happy old age to the dog.
Ninth place: diabetes
Symptoms: Eating too much, drinking too much, urinating too much, losing weight.
Diabetes is an endocrine disease, and its clinical symptoms are the same as those of human beings, and there will be three more and one less-eating more, drinking more, urinating more and losing weight. In addition, the skin elasticity of pet dogs will become worse, and it is easy to be complicated with hyperlipidemia and acute pancreatitis, and liver enlargement and jaundice often occur!
Generally speaking, after fasting 12 hours, blood sugar test and urine test can get the correct diagnosis. Dogs often develop diabetes when they are seven to nine years old, and the incidence of diabetes in female dogs is twice that of male dogs.
The breeds that are more susceptible to diabetes are poodle, dachshund, mini schnauzer and Migru. The treatment of diabetes is not difficult, but many owners cannot take care of themselves in their daily lives. In addition to giving high-fiber and low-fat foods (ready-made prescription drugs can be bought), insulin should be injected every day if necessary. Diabetes often brings some secondary diseases, such as cataract, hypokalemia and metabolic acidosis. And treatment requires great patience from the owner, otherwise the condition will worsen.
Prevention and treatment: eat high-fiber and low-fat foods and inject insulin every day if necessary.