Canine distemper is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by canine distemper virus. If Husky dogs get this disease, the mortality rate is extremely high, about 30%-80%. If your Husky sneezes, has a runny nose, coughs, or has a fever (the body temperature can reach above 40°C, and then quickly drops to normal temperature after 2 days), you should be careful, because your Husky may have canine distemper. The following introduces the symptoms of canine distemper in Huskies and the treatment of canine distemper.
1. Symptoms of canine distemper in Huskies
【Early canine distemper symptoms】
If a Husky gets canine distemper, the early symptoms are mainly cold symptoms and enteritis symptoms. Sneezing, runny nose, cough, fever (body temperature can reach above 40°C, lasting for 2 days and then quickly drops to normal temperature), eating less, and mild diarrhea. After 2-4 days of treatment, the symptoms basically disappeared and the food intake returned to normal. However, the eating speed slowed down, the spirit was poor, the patient was inactive, and the nose was dry.
【Symptoms of mid-term canine distemper】
Canine distemper in Huskies begins to turn into the middle stage in 7-14 days, when the body temperature rises for the second time. Generally speaking, it will be above 40 degrees, and any antipyretic medicine will have little effect and last for 7-12 days; loss of appetite, runny nose, dry cough, rapid breathing, red, swollen, moist or eroded eyelids.
【Symptoms of late canine distemper】
In the late stage of canine distemper in Huskies, the body temperature returns to normal (perhaps accompanied by a slight fever, about 38.5-39.5 degrees), coughing, purulent nasal discharge, eyelid erosion, half-open eyes, smaller eyes, and weight loss , likes to lie down and move around. Eat less, be picky about food, or go on hunger strike, and have diarrhea. Symptoms such as thickened toe pads, skin papules (in some cases, rice-sized red papules appear on the skin of the lower abdomen and medial thigh) and neurological symptoms appear.
2. Four manifestations of neurological symptoms of canine distemper
1. The Husky’s mouth opens and closes, or the corners of the mouth, head muscles, or one, two or four legs shake rhythmically.
2. Husky’s blind sports
3. Epilepsy, spasmodic intermittent seizures, involuntary continuous "smacking of the lips", foaming at the mouth or blood in the saliva, incontinence of urine and feces, excitement and restlessness after the convulsion, blind running, and finally general weakness, lying on the ground to rest.
4. The Husky’s hind legs are numb or even paralyzed.
3. Canine distemper prevention and control
Husky prevention dogDistemper, the best way is to be immunized regularly and get the canine distemper vaccine. If unfortunately your Husky gets canine distemper, here are some treatments:
Timely isolation and treatment. Timely detection of sick dogs, early isolation and treatment, and prevention of secondary infections are the keys to improving the cure rate and reducing mortality. In the early stage of the disease, anti-canine distemper hyperimmune serum (or canine pentavalent hyperimmune serum) or serum (or whole blood) of dogs who have recovered from the disease can be injected intramuscularly or subcutaneously.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the disinfection of the kennel. If you feed multiple huskies, the sick huskies should be strictly isolated first. At the same time, various disinfectants, such as basalt, Lysol, caustic soda, sodium hypochlorite, etc., are used for thorough disinfection.
