Dog distemper diagnosis, prevention and treatment
Canine distemper caused by canine distemper virus, a high degree of contact, fatal diseases. Early phase temperature thermal type, flu-like symptoms, followed by bronchitis, catarrhal pneumonia, and gastroenteritis is characterized. Disease have neurological symptoms can be seen later, such as spasm. in some cases, there may be a high degree of hyperkeratosis nose and corner pads (hard pad disease). Therefore, more attention to pet medicine. Epidemiology This disease can occur throughout the year, but winter-prone. These diseases have a certain periodicity, every three years a pandemic. Different age, gender and types of dogs can be infected, but the most minor of puppies susceptible. Purebred dogs, dog breeding dogs than the soil susceptibility to high, and the reaction conditions re-mortality rate was also high. The disease is the most important source of infection nose, eye secretions and urine. It has been reported infected with canine parvovirus dogs 60-90 days after the discharge of urine is still the virus, so that urine is a very dangerous source of infection is mainly transmitted by direct contact with dogs, dogs with health, but also through the air via droplets of respiratory tract infection. Same Room dogs However, dogs found a blast, no matter how tight to take protective measures can not prevent infection shared a room with the dog. Symptoms Distemper incubation period of 3-9 days. Symptoms varied with the degree of toxicity, environmental conditions, age and immune status. Distemper symptoms of body temperature began to rise, continuing 1-3 days. And then subside very similar characteristics of cold cured. but increased again after a few days the body temperature, duration uncertain. can be seen there in tears, conjunctival redness, ocular discharge from the viscous liquid into a purulent. nose hair dry environment, there are nasal fluid flow , beginning with serous nasal later become purulent nasal. early disease have a dry cough, and changed to wet cough, shortness of breath. vomiting, diarrhea, intussusception, severe dehydration and weakness eventually death. Neurological symptoms of plague in dogs, most of the above symptoms appear about 10 days. Keratosis clinically with mats, nasal hyperkeratosis of cases caused by multiple neurological symptoms. As the canine distemper viruses in different parts of the central nervous system, symptoms vary. virus damage in the brain, manifested as seizures, circling, abnormal standing posture, gait disturbance, ataxia, mastication muscles and limbs convulsive fits and other neurological symptoms, such nervous dogs plague mostly poor prognosis. Canine distemper virus can cause some eye damage and presented with conjunctivitis, keratitis is characterized by keratitis, mostly about 15 days after the onset of more common, white cornea, corneal ulcers can occur in serious cases, perforation and blindness. Disease, high mortality rate in puppies, up to 80 ~ 90% mortality rate. May secondary pneumonia, enteritis, and other symptoms of intussusception. Once the clinical symptoms characteristic of canine distemper, the prognosis is poor. Particularly immune dogs did not. Although clinical symptomatic treatment, but very difficult to control the development of the disease, mostly neurological symptoms and died. Partial recovery The dogs can usually leave after-effects of different levels. Prevention and Control (1) of this disease prevention is to vaccinate dogs regularly plague vaccine. Immunization program are: to conduct the first 50 days free time; 2 free time for 80 days; third time was 110 days for free. Three times after immunization, after immunization once a year, currently on the market six combined vaccine, five of vaccine, triple vaccine immunity can be shown by the above procedure. Therapy Available in clinical symptoms after the high dose of canine distemper vaccination serum-free, can control the development of this disease. In canine distemper during the first heating to a high dose of serum-free, can enhance the body enough antibodies to prevent clinical symptoms, therapeutic purposes. for distemper clinical symptoms, neurological symptoms in late disease, even if the injection of canine distemper hyper immune serum were mostly very difficult to treat.
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