Just like humans, dogs also get sick and all diseases of dogs they can present themselves in a more or less severe way.
Here are the five diseases of dogs most dangerous with their symptoms:
Parvovirosi
It is a disease that is transmitted orally and fecally. It happens especially when a new mother uses to clean the feces of the puppies becomes infected by the excrement of one of them and risks infecting themselves and the whole litter.
I symptoms most common are: vomiting, diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain, exhaustion, mucus and blood in the stool, loss of appetite, lethargy and tachycardia. However, we remind you that any obvious sign of Parvovirus tends to show up about ten days after the infection, so take into account the incubation.
The virus progressively affects different organs of the dog up to causing the death of the latter in extreme cases.
The care provides an antibiotic therapy, to be accompanied by the intake of gastroprotectors. It is possible to prevent the disease with the vaccine.
Cimurro
Distemper is also called Carrè’s disease. It is a viral infectious disease, from the same family as the measles virus. It can affect various animal species but not humans. The distemper generally starts from the oral routes and then spreads like wildfire throughout the body.
In this sense, therefore, i symptoms they are multiple, because they progressively affect the respiratory, digestive, nervous and so on.
Therapy involves antibiotic treatment. Often the practice of drip is also added, to supplement liquids and avoid weight loss.
Mortality for Distemper varies from 30% to 80%.
Leptospirosi
It is an acute systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Leptospira. The contagion can occur directly or indirectly and does not only concern the dog world.
Leptospirosis is a disease often associated with the autumn season and affects mainly the kidneys and liver of our furry friend. THE symptoms they are vomiting and coughing, often followed by relative lack of appetite.
Lyme disease
Also called Borreliosis, it is a parasitic disease caused by ticks. It is a disease that also affects humans.
I symptoms are: dejection, fever, lameness and muscle aches; to then give way – in severe cases – to vomiting, arrhythmia and neurological dysfunctions.
How is it treated? With careful prevention, above all: remember to regularly administer anti-ticks! If it is too late, it will certainly be necessary to opt for antibiotic therapy, in agreement with your veterinarian.
Leishmaniosi
This is the classic disease that is transmitted to the dog through the bite of an insect.
I symptoms they are so varied and generic that it is difficult to diagnose them exactly: they range from general exhaustion to swelling, through eye infections or hair loss. The incubation time can be years!
There is no cure for this disease, the only thing that needs to be done is prevention. In this regard, it is good to administer the vaccine to the dog and the relative annual boosters. Even if the vaccine does not fully cover the dog, the coverage is more or less than 80%, but since it is a disease that can lead to death, 80% is better than 0%.
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