Treatment measures for dogs with taeniasis:

1. Therapeutic deworming: use arecoline hydrobromide at a dosage of 1.5-2 mg/kg of body weight. oral. Make the sick dog fast for 12 to 20 hours and then administer the drug. In order to prevent vomiting, dilute iodine tincture (10 ml of water, two drops of iodine tincture) should be given 15 to 20 minutes before taking the medicine. Or use praziquantel, the dosage is 5-10 mg/kg body weight/time, orally. Or use butamidine hydrochloride, the dosage is 25-50 mg/kg body weight, once orally, to expel Echinococcus granulosus, use 50 mg, and then use it once every 48 hours.

2. Preventive deworming: Preventive deworming should be carried out 4 times a year (once per quarter), and breeding dogs should be carried out 3-4 weeks before breeding. When deworming, the dog should be isolated within a certain range so that the excreted worms and feces can be collected and destroyed completely to prevent the spread of pathogens. Spring and autumn are the periods of high incidence.

3. Pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene, eliminate sources of infection, properly handle slaughter waste, prevent dogs from eating intermediate hosts containing tapeworm larvae or their uncooked organs, and keep the kennel and dog body clean , often use pesticides to kill fleas and lice on dogs and eliminate rodents.

Clinical symptoms of taeniasis in dogs:

1. Abnormal appetite (bulimia, heterophilia), vomiting, chronic enteritis, diarrhea, Constipation occurs alternately, anemia, weight loss, irritability or depression, and some may cause convulsions or limb paralysis.

2. When the worms form into groups, they can block the intestines, leading to acute abdominal diseases such as intestinal obstruction, intussusception, volvulus and intestinal rupture.

3. Check the tapeworm segments; if it is found that the anus of the sick dog has a tapeworm gestation segment that has not yet landed, and short tapeworm segments are mixed in the feces, it can help to diagnose the disease. The proglottids are white, the smallest ones are like rice grains, and the larger ones can be about 9 mm long.