What are the symptoms of dog enteritis? How to treat dog enteritis? Dog enteritis refers to acute or chronic inflammation of the intestinal mucosa.
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First, the cause of canine enteritis:
The causes of enteritis are much the same as the causes of gastritis in dogs:
1. Eating corrupt or contaminated food, or accidentally ingesting poison bait, irritant drugs, foreign objects, etc.
2. Secondary to certain infectious diseases such as canine distemper, parvovirus, coronavirus disease, parasitic diseases (such as tapeworms, roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, trichomoniasis), etc.
3. If the dog has been in a high degree of nervousness, it is easy to cause enteritis.
Second, the clinical symptoms of canine enteritis:
1. Diarrhea is the main symptom of canine enteritis, which can be seen at the beginning of the disease.
2. Abdominal auscultation, you can hear increased bowel movement sounds, or hear thunder sounds, abdominal tension, low back bending.
3. When the inflammation spreads to the front of the duodenum or stomach, sick dogs are often accompanied by vomiting.
4. When the dog has tenesmus symptoms, it means that the inflammation has spread to the colon.
5. The sick dog has mild or moderate fever. If infected with bacteria, the body temperature can be as high as 39-39.5 degrees Celsius.
6. With the development of the disease, the sick dogs may show symptoms of dehydration and acidosis.
Three, canine enteritis prevention measures:
1. First, fast for 1-2 days for the dog. In order to prevent dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, the sick dog should be rehydrated, such as intravenous infusion of Ringer's solution or intravenous infusion of lactic acid compound sodium chloride solution.
2. Clean up the stomach and intestines: appropriate amount of laxatives (such as sodium sulfate, artificial salt) should be used orally.
3. Anti-inflammatory and antidiarrheal: take 0.1~0.5 grams of berberine, 3 times a day orally.
4. Those with bleeding symptoms should take hemostasis measures, such as intramuscular injection of hemostasis.
5. Antiemetic, metoclopramide, 1~2 mg/kg body weight, intramuscular injection, 2 times/day.
6. In case of parasitic enteritis, in addition to the above treatments, deworming drugs should be given.