Common Dog Diseases

Rickets Diseases

Common Dog Diseases

A disease also known as bowed legs, a disease common in puppies are caused by a deficiency of minerals, especially calcium and phosphorus, in addition to vitamin D deficiency disease is very common in large breed puppies, for example, the Great Dane, German Shepherd , Doberman, and Boxer. This is because at the age of 2 months upwards usually very rapid body growth and particularly growth in bone mineral needs enough length so high.

Common Dog Diseases

If a mineral deficiency will result into a crooked leg bones, especially long bones, so that growth becomes imperfect. To overcome the problems of growth, provide mineral and vitamin D on a regular basis.

Common Dog Diseases

Cause

• Levels of Calcium and Phosphorous minerals in the daily diet is not sufficient to offset the need for bone growth in young dogs.
• Nutrition in insufficient food, especially protein content, sometimes too high in carbohydrate.
• Mineral absorption in the intestines impaired because the ratio between calcium and phosphorus less balanced. Standard correct ratio is 1.2: 1 and must be equipped with vitamin D.
• Lack of vitamin D.

Clinical symptoms of mineral deficiency and vitamin D

• Decreased appetite, lethargic and weak.
• Bone growth is not normal, abnormal thickening occurs in the long bones in the joints with enlarged so it looks like a bump on the ribs.
• Like acting weird like eating wood, soil, grass, cloth, and so on. They instinctively trying to find the source of the mineral.
• If continues the front legs can be shaped O or X.
• If left alone it will continue to be arthritis so that the course becomes stiff, staggered by the hind legs dragged. The worst thing is the occurrence of paralysis and ends with death.

Prevention of the common symptoms of canine disease are:

• Children should always be a big dog minerals such as bone meal.
• Should also given fresh meat.
• Add vitamins, especially vitamin D, or often dried in the sun.
• Often do exercises with running the conversation light.

Treatment of this disease

• Injection with vitamins A, D, E 2 times a week.
• Injection with calcium gloconate or similar.
• Provide high doses of vitamin E every day.
• Should provide fresh meat taste so that the metabolism of the body to be more perfect.

Eclampsia in the mother dog

Eclampsia commonly referred to as puerperal disease tetani (hypocalcemia). These diseases such as metabolic disorders that often occur in the parent dogs after giving birth and nursing mother dogs. This common disease often occurs in small breed dog, for example: pomerian, Mini Pincher, and others.

In general, the type of small or medium dog, if mineral deficiency will not appear as a form of bone growth disorders because their growth was rather slow. They will look calcium deficiency during childbirth or breastfeeding her child. If her son would be much more severe.

The cause of the disease Eclampsia

• Because the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus disorders.
• Due to impaired absorption of calcium minerals.
• Due to lack of vitamin D.

General factors affecting

• The food was given to dogs less attention, especially in pregnant and lactating dogs.
• The owners do not understand the importance of minerals for a healthy life and perfect.
• The need for calcium in the dog breeders who are breastfeeding 12 times greater than normal. If it is inadequate, will be taken from the bone marrow in length.
• Chronic Disease worms that would interfere with mineral absorption of calcium in the gut.

Clinical Symptoms

• Decreased appetite, red eyes.
• Lethargy, rapid breathing, if the road is rather stiff.
• Tongue sticking and continue drooling, high fever.
• bulging eyes, trembling, muscle spasm.
• His legs were stiff that it can not stand up and collapsed with a loud fourth leg cramp straight forward as tetanus.
• Can be continued by the paralysis and coma, ending with death.
• The disease can occur 2-10 days after delivery, or after 30 days at a time to breastfeed her child. Calcium levels in the blood of a dog holding a drastic decline to below normal. The normal range of 9-12 mg per 100 cc of blood. The dog will experience Eclampsia when calcium levels drop below 6 mg / 100cc of blood.

Prevention of disease eclampsia

• There should be a small breed dog calcium routinely given after mated, during pregnancy and lactation, with bone meal tablets or tablets calcium and vitamin D Phosphate complete.
• Provide regular worming.
• Give vitamin E as a supplement.

Eclampsia disease treatment

• If the parent is collapsed and convulsions with bulging eyes and a high fever, suitable treatment with an intravenous infusion using gluconas sufficient calcium through the femoral vein in the hind legs. Within 5 minutes of the breeders will no longer seizures again. He will instantly be able to run. His eyes no longer stare while the fever is also down. This treatment should be treated by a veterinarian.
• To temporarily separated from his mother and given additional milk. Time breastfeeding rotated so as not to overdo it.
• Parent was given a complete supplement every day, especially those containing calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D are high.

Thus a brief description of some common dog diseases. Hope it is useful!