Common Dog Diseases Vitamin Deficiency

Deficiency of vitamin

Vitamins are substances or elements that are needed in order to live a healthy dog. If the deficiency of vitamins then the dog will be deficient. Vitamin deficiencies are common in dogs include deficiency of vitamin A, D, E and B complex.

Deficiency of Vitamin A

Vitamin A deficiency is characterized as follows:

• Disorders of the eye, eyes misty, watery eyes. Severe deficiency can lead to blindness, xerophthalmia.
• Stunted growth, stunted.
• Disturbance on the back foot when walking so dragged.
• Fatigue, weakness, rough and dull fur.
• Restlessness, skin inflammation and neurological disorders.
• Miscarriage, children who are born weak, eye abnormalities, decreased fertility.
• Body resistance to disease is low, susceptible to disease infection.

Deficiency of vitamin D

Vitamin D deficiency is usually due to lack of sunlight into the cage. Deficiency of vitamin D have the following signature: arthritis and swelling, decreased appetite, looked thin, stunted growth, often become stunted, fragile bones brittle, coarse fur and dull, sometimes bleeding under the skin, richetsiosis disease.

Deficiency of vitamin E

Animals in dire need of vitamin E because the body naturally cannot make vitamin E. This vitamin thus should be added to food. If up to a deficiency of vitamin E, it would appear the symptoms associated with fertility genitals. Deficiency of vitamin E resulted in the following matters: the case of infertility in the parent, passion disruption in male dogs, muscle growth disorders, disorders of the muscles, and then continues into dystrophy muscle, skin diseases, dermatitis, feathers fall out easily, becoming an adult slow sex and sometimes continued with infertility.

Deficiency of vitamin B complex

If there is a deficiency of vitamin B complex it will show the following symptoms: decreased appetite, gastrointestinal disturbances, stunted growth, susceptible to diseases of the skin (dermatitis), dry and scaly skin, anemia, dull hair and rugged, easy loss, stunted growth in fur , weight loss, impaired red blood cell formation, especially in Ca panthothenate, causing feathers fall out easily, specifically to biotin cause skin irritation so susceptible to dermatitis, inhibited the growth of feathers.