[Medical Guide] How to judge the nature of dog cough?

Pay attention to observe the symptoms of dog coughing

Cough is a protective reflex movement. When there is inflammatory secretions in the trachea or inhaled foreign body dust, it can be excreted from the body with the help of cough. Suffering with pleurisy, especially throat, trachea, and bronchial inflammation, cough is prone to occur. There is a foreign body in the airway that can also cause cough. When checking the cough, you can first understand the relevant symptoms, or listen to the sound of the dog's cough. If necessary, you can manually seduce it to check.

I. Priff pets: Various dogs

2. Related inspection:

When checking the cough, pay attention to the nature, frequency, and strength of the dog's cough, and see if the dog has pain reactions.

1. Nature: dry cough and wet cough

dry cough: When there is very little endocrine or in the early stages of acute inflammation, dry cough occurs. The cough is strong, the sound is crisp, the duration is short, without sputum or a small amount of viscous exudate. It is found in the early stage of acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, early tuberculosis, pleurisy, throat and bronchial foreign body.

Wet cough: There are a large amount of secretions in the trachea, which occurs wet cough. The sound of cough is low and dull, and it lasts for a long time. Due to sputum coughing, it is often sprayed with a lot of exudate with the cough movements, or swallowing motion after coughing, indicating that the dog's respiratory tract has a large amount of thin leakage solution. Common at the end of chronic inflammation or acute inflammation, such as pharyngitis, lung abscess, bronchial pneumonia, and so on.

2. Frequency:

Single cough: Only one or two coughs appear each time, often repeatedly onset and periodic. Common in colds, tuberculosis, etc. In addition, there are foreign bodies in the respiratory tract.

Continuous cough: Cough recurring attacks are common in acute laryngitis and infectious upper respiratory tract cards.

If there are other bad symptoms

3. Power:

Strong cough: It is cough that is stimulated by the throat and tracheal mucosa. The cough is strong. When the inflammation may be painless in the early stage of inflammation, the secretion is thick, which can cause strong cough, which is found in laryngeal and bronchitis.

Weak cough: It is a cough that is stimulated by the bronchial mucosa.

Cough: It is accompanied by pain when coughing, short and weak cough, commonly in acute laryngitis, foreign body pneumonia.

Three, TIPS:

Under normal circumstances, dogs can cough are mostly caused by colds or foreign bodies. It can be treated a little, but if you find that the dog has problems such as vomiting, diarrhea, and no mental appetite, it is necessary to immediately be sent to the hospital for examination.