Symptoms of gastroenteritis in dogs:

1. Diarrhea is the main symptom of enteritis and can be seen at the beginning of the disease.

2. The feces is liquid and has a foul odor. In the later stage, it is often mixed with mucus, blood, foam, etc.

3. During abdominal auscultation, you can hear increased intestinal peristalsis sounds, or thunder sounds, abdominal tension, and bent back.

4. When inflammation spreads to the front of the duodenum or stomach, sick dogs are often accompanied by vomiting. If a sick dog shows symptoms of tenesmus, it means that the inflammation has spread to the colon. When bleeding occurs in the small intestine, dog feces will appear dark green or black.

5. If you are infected with bacteria, the symptoms include mild or moderate fever, and the body temperature can be as high as 38 degrees to 38.5 degrees.

6. As the disease progresses, the sick dog may show symptoms of dehydration and acidosis. At this time, the sick dog often lies on the ground, the skin lacks elasticity, the eyeballs are sunken, the conjunctiva is cyanotic, the pulse rate is increased, and the urine output is reduced. Reduce, darken.

Treatment methods for dog gastroenteritis:

1. Food therapy. Mild symptoms can be treated with food therapy. Fast for 24 hours, only give a small amount of water, and then feed Give sugar and salt water rice soup (add 1 gram of salt and 10 grams of multidimensional glucose per 100 ml of rice soup), or give broth, starch paste, milk, soy milk, etc., and then gradually thicken until the normal diet is completely restored.

2. To cleanse the gastrointestinal tract, laxatives such as sodium sulfate and artificial salt should be taken orally in appropriate amounts.

3. Anti-inflammatory and antidiarrheal berberine 0.1-0.5 g/kg body weight, take orally to sick dogs three times a day. Sulfamidine 0.1-0.3 g/kg body weight, taken orally in 2-3 times; sulfadiazole phthalyl 0.1-0.3 g/kg body weight, taken orally in 3-4 times; sulfamethylisoxazole, etc. Antibiotics include chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline and chloramphenicol. For non-bacterial enteritis, when the accumulated feces has been basically eliminated and the feces has no sour smell, but still has diarrhea, astringent drugs should be given to stop diarrhea, such as 0.5-2 grams of activated carbon, 0.5-2 grams of tannic acid protein, times Bismuth nitrate 0.3-1g, taken orally 3 times a day.

4. In order to prevent dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, the sick dog should be given intravenous injection of 100-500 ml of Ringer's solution, 100-500 mg of vitamin C, and 20 ml of 25% glucose solution for cardiac rehydration, daily. Intravenous infusion 1-2 times, or intravenous infusion of lactic acid compound sodium chloride solution.

5. Symptomatic treatment can include supplementing vitamin B, vitamin C and vitamin K. Especially for sick dogs with bloody stools, vitamin K should be supplemented.