Internal parasites affect the health, growth and development of dogs, and can also create conditions for the invasion of other pathogens. If parents don't understand and leave it alone, serious cases can lead to the death of dogs and even infect humans and children. Therefore, it is important to deworm your dog regularly.

How to determine internal parasites:

1. My belly is big and bulging even when I don’t eat.

2. He eats a lot, but does not grow strong. Instead, he becomes thin and languid.

3. Likes to sit on the ground and rub his anus.

4. Eat raw meat regularly.

5. The mother of the furry baby has been infected with parasites, which are then passed on through breast milk.

Common internal parasites:

Taeworm:

Tapeworm is the longest intestinal parasite in dogs and is very harmful to dogs’ health. The small hooks and suckers on the head of the worm stick to the mucosa of the small intestine, causing damage to the intestinal mucosa and enteritis. The worm absorbs a large amount of nutrients from the dog, causing obstacles to growth and development. It can cause malnutrition, weight loss, anemia, gastrointestinal symptoms and neurological symptoms. In severe cases, it can lead to systemic weakness and death.

In the early stages of tapeworm infection, most dogs do not show symptoms. In severe infection, symptoms of enteritis, hemorrhagic enteritis, and vomiting may occur.

When the intestinal peristalsis occurs, the worms can enter the stomach. During vomiting, the worms can be vomited out together with the stomach contents.

Heartworm:

Canine heartworm disease is a blood parasitic disease transmitted through mosquito bites. After a dog is infected, heartworms will parasitize in the right heart and adjacent blood vessels. In severe cases, the dog may die. Because heartworms parasitize the right ventricle and pulmonary artery of dogs, they can also cause certain damage to the dog's heart, lungs and kidneys.

Lack of energy, loss of appetite, persistent dry cough

Wheezing, ascites or leg edema, jaundice, cardiopulmonary failure, and even death

Whipworm:

Trichuris disease in dogs is caused by the parasite Trichocystis elegans parasitizing the cecum of dogs. It occurs all over our country. This disease mainly harms puppies and can cause death in severe cases.

In severe infection, acute or chronic enteritis can be caused because the head of the parasite burrows deeply into the mucous membrane;

Blood-sucking worms often cause anemia in sick dogs;

Roundworm:

Roundworms are the largest parasitic nematodes in the intestines of dogs.The body is slightly pink or yellowish, with horizontal stripes on the body surface, and the male tail is often curled. Ascaris eggs are swallowed by dogs and hatch into larvae in the small intestine. The larvae can secrete hyaluronidase and protease, invade the mucosa and submucosa of the small intestine, and burrow into other tissues of the body.

When a small amount of roundworms migrate into the lungs, dogs may develop fever, chills, cough, difficulty breathing, asthma, bloody sputum, and loss of appetite;

A large number of roundworms in the intestine will cause varying degrees of digestive tract symptoms, such as polyphagia or anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and occasionally diarrhea

Hookworm:

Hookworms live in the small intestine of dogs. The worms are 1-2 cm long, with a curved front end and three sharp hook-shaped teeth on the mouth edge. They can "nail" deeply into the intestinal mucosa to suck blood. The larvae mainly invade the host body through the skin (but also through the mouth), travel with the blood to the heart and lungs, pass through the respiratory tract and larynx, and then transfer to the digestive tract to parasitize. In pregnant dogs, it can enter the fetus through the placenta.

The secretions of worms can prevent the dog's blood from coagulating, causing continuous bleeding. Sick dogs may suffer from severe anemia due to continuous large amounts of blood loss.

Sick dogs have diarrhea with blood and mucus, anemia, weight loss, loss of appetite, sometimes edema, and growth and development disorders.

Toxoplasma gondii:

Toxoplasma gondii is a single-cell intracellular parasite that travels with the blood and reaches various parts of the body. It is almost the most successful single-celled animal on the planet and is ubiquitous around the world. Many mammals and birds, including various livestock and poultry, are often infected by it, and infections also occur in humans.

Eating meat from infected animals if the cooking temperature is not high enough or the cooking time is too short

When exposed to contaminated soil, insect eggs can survive in the external environment for a long time

What should you pay attention to when deworming your dog:

1. Feed the dog normally and deworm it while the dog is eating normally to avoid adverse reactions to the deworming drug due to physical discomfort.

2. When feeding anthelmintics, follow the instructions and distribute the dosage according to body weight.

​Put the medicine into the medicine feeder;

Use the medicine applicator to hold the space behind the canine teeth, go deep into the mouth, and try to get as close to the base of the tongue as possible;