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If your Samoyed has sneezing, runny nose, cough, fever (body temperature can reach above 40°, and it will quickly drop to normal temperature after 2 days), you have to be careful, maybe your Samoyed has canine distemper.
The following are the symptoms of Samoyed distemper and the treatment of canine distemper.
1. Symptoms of Samoyed Distemper Early canine distemper symptoms If a Samoyed has canine distemper, the early symptoms are mainly cold symptoms and enteritis symptoms.
Sneezing, runny nose, cough, fever (body temperature can reach above 40°, and it will quickly drop to normal temperature after 2 days), eat less food, and mild diarrhea.
Generally speaking, it will be above 40 degrees, and the effect of any antipyretic drug is not obvious, and it can last for 7-12 days; loss of appetite, serous rhinorrhea, dry cough, rapid breathing, eyelid swelling, dampness or erosion.
Late Canine Distemper Symptoms In the late stage of Samoyed distemper, the body temperature returns to normal (may be accompanied by a slight fever, about 38.5-39.5 degrees), cough, purulent nasal discharge, eyelid erosion, eyes half-open and half-closed,
Eat less, picky eaters or fasting, diarrhea.
II. Four manifestations of neurological symptoms of canine distemper
1. The Samoyed's mouth opens and closes, or the corners of the mouth, the muscles of the head, or one, two or four legs rhythmically shake.
2. Samoyed Blind Movement
3. Epilepsy, spasmodic intermittent seizures, involuntary continuous "smacking of the mouth", foaming in the mouth or blood in the saliva, incontinence of urine and bowels, excited and restless after the convulsions, running blindly, and finally unable to lie down and rest.
4. Samoyed's hind legs are paralyzed or even paralyzed.
Three, Canine Distemper Prevention and Control Samoyed's best way to prevent canine distemper is to immunize and inoculate canine distemper vaccine regularly.
If the Samoyed suffers from canine distemper unfortunately, the following are some treatment methods: timely isolation and treatment to detect sick dogs in time, early isolation and treatment, and prevention of secondary infection, which are the keys to improving the cure rate and reducing the mortality rate.
In the early stage of the disease, anti-canine distemper hyperimmune serum (or canine five-linked hyperimmune serum) or the recovered dog serum (or whole blood) can be injected intramuscularly or subcutaneously.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the disinfection of the kennel.
At the same time, a variety of disinfectants, such as 100% sterilization, Lysol, caustic soda, sodium hypochlorite, etc., are used for thorough disinfection.