What are the symptoms of hyperthyroidism?
Dog's thyroid hyperthyroidism is an endocrine disease of the basal metabolic hyperthyroidism due to excessive secretion of thyroid hormones. Clinically, it is characterized by high metabolic syndrome, high nervous excitement, and large goiter. Cats are common, and dogs occasionally happen.
Generally speaking, hyperthyroidism in dogs is 4-18 years old. Boxer dogs, Big dogs and golden retrievers are easy to send.
I. The cause of dog hyperthyroidism:
The hyperthyroidism of the dogs is caused by thyroid tumors, and thyroid tumors are located on the neck and abdomen pharyngeal to the chest. Generally speaking, 1/3 of schinels of primary tumors are adenomas and 2/3 are adenocarcinoma. The thyroid glandoma is usually less than 2cm in diameter, which is transparent, and it is large.
Among the dogs, boxer dogs are most likely to suffer from thyroid glandoma.
2. Symptoms of dog hyperthyroidism:
1. If the dog has hyperthyroidism with hyperthyroidism, you will drink more urine, thirst, enhanced appetite, subsequent weight loss, increased number of defecation, weakness of heart, hyperthyroidism, elevated electrocardiogram voltage, elevated electrocardiogram voltage in the initial stage In addition, dogs like cold places, irritability, panting and easy fatigue;
2. Eyes, eyelid edema, tears, and conjunctiva congestion;
3. From the pharynx to the chest, the brake can be countered along the sides of the air tube.
4, thyroid tumors can cause dogs to swallow difficulties and symptoms of breathing difficulties.
Three, treatment of dog hyperthyroidism:
1. Thyroid cancer that has not been metastasized in the early days can be removed from surgery. Thyroid glandular cancer that has been metastasized or difficult to completely remove. Do not remove surgery and can perform radiation iodine therapy.
2. Dogs with severe hyperthyroidism, before surgical removal of thyroid adenoma, should be used with iodine compound iodine glycerin or iodide syrup 1ml orally: once a day, 3 ~ 10 days or anthology (3 ~ 10 days or anti -thyroid drugs ( For example, 1mg/kg of 1mg/kg of propyrine, 2 or 3 times a day), treatment for a period of time.
3. Ultimate individuals and slow growth. If the thyroid function is affected, removal can also be performed, and both thyroids are removed. Dogs need to feed thyroid powder for life.