Treatment methods for pneumonia in Dalmatian dogs:
Symptoms:
If your Dalmatian dog at home has symptoms of cough, fever, difficulty breathing, reduced exercise, poor appetite, weight loss, and yellow discharge from the nasal cavity, don’t be careless. This is most likely because the Dalmatian dog is suffering from If you have pneumonia, you must seek medical treatment immediately.
Clinical diagnostic methods of Dalmatian pneumonia
The symptoms of Dalmatian pneumonia vary depending on the cause of the infection, but they usually include cough, fever, difficulty breathing, decreased activity, loss of appetite, weight loss, and yellow discharge from the nasal cavity.
1. Blood test: The main purpose is to check blood changes and understand the degree of infection.
2. Chest X-ray examination: The chest X-ray examination shooting process should be taken when the Dalmatian dog inhales, because this has the best diagnostic effect. This test can be used to understand the basic lobe position of the infected lung (the left lung has two lobes and the right lung has three lobes), and the cause (such as whether it is aspiration pneumonia) can be determined first.
3. Sampling and culture: tracheal lavage (injecting normal saline into the trachea and then withdrawing it) or bronchoscopy (endoscope), bone marrow sampling, cerebrospinal fluid sampling, lymph node sampling, etc. The main purpose is to collect the source of infection in the lungs for laboratory culture of pathogens and drug resistance tests to select the most effective drugs.
Treatment of Dalmatian Pneumonia
1. In fact, the most effective treatment method is to first find out the source of infection, and then give effective drug treatment according to the source of infection. Therefore, X-ray diagnosis only determines the degree of infection of dog pneumonia, and it also needs to be paired with sampling examination. Further selection of medications.
2. In addition, it is very important to replenish sufficient water, because when infected with pneumonia, the lungs need to expel these sources of infection from the body through coughing. If the water in the dog's body is insufficient, the phlegm in the lungs will be too much. Stickiness makes it difficult to pass.
3. Another treatment method is aerosol treatment. It can be used to assist with expectoration and provide medication. In terms of diet, it is recommended to give the dog easy-to-digest and high-protein food. If the dog’s physiological condition is not good, intravenous nutrition injection or gastric tube can be buried if necessary.
Condition after treatment
There are different therapeutic effects depending on the source of infection. For example, a puppy infected with bacterial pneumonia can easily turn into chronic tracheitis after recovery. Therefore, dog pneumonia requires more attention to prevention. For another example, anesthesia often leads to vomiting and aspiration pneumonia. Therefore, if the dog needs anesthesia,If you are drunk or sedated, you should first fast for 6-12 hours.
In addition, regular preventive injections and the administration of heartworm preventive drugs can reduce the chance of infection.
It is also troublesome for Dalmatians to suffer from pneumonia. In addition to preventing the condition from getting worse, timely treatment is also needed. For the health of Dalmatians, owners have worked hard during this period! The most important thing is that I hope that after this incident, the owners can Realize how necessary it is to learn about the prevention and treatment of dog diseases!
