Many dog ​​owners cannot distinguish between dog coughing and vomiting, especially when dogs cough and expectorate, which can lead to confusion with vomiting. Lower your head, stretch your neck, and sometimes arch your back, making a clicking sound, as if you are panting hard. In severe cases, phlegm will come out. The owner can pinch the dog's throat. If the dog immediately shows symptoms of severe coughing, it must be a cough. . So what should we do if our dog coughs?

Sick people cough, and healthy people also cough sometimes. Just like humans, excitement, waking up, being frightened, choking on food and other reasons can cause dogs to cough. This kind of cough is usually short and short-lived and has no other symptoms, so there is no need to worry.

Changes in environmental factors can also cause dogs to cough. From a warm air environment to a cold air environment, fine particles such as smoke and dust irritate the respiratory tract, pungent smells (such as ammonia, pepper smoke, etc.), chronic pathogenic air environments (such as the smell of paint in new homes), etc., will all cause dogs to Dog coughs. If it is a short-term environmental factor, generally there will be no continuous and long-term cough. When it is strongly stimulated, it will be accompanied by runny nose and tears. It will get better and disappear after being removed from the harmful environment.

If the dog lives in a harmful environment for a long time (such as an environment with excessive formaldehyde), it may suffer from long-term continuous dry cough. At this time, the respiratory tract and lungs may have lesions, and you need to find a veterinarian. If the dog is exposed to relatively strong respiratory tract irritation, such as strong ammonia gas, it may burn the respiratory tract. This situation will cause inflammation. You cannot just transfer the environment, but also need to find a veterinarian for specialized treatment.

Dogs sometimes eat bones and fish bones, or bite some prickly objects, and foreign objects may get stuck in their throats or pierce their gums. The dog will cough on its own initiative, hoping to cough out the thorns. In this case, the dog often coughs, scratches its mouth with its paws, and barks short and sharp from time to time, which is easy to judge. Dogs generally don't get stuck on thorns and can eventually resolve them on their own. If the dog cannot solve the problem on his own, he must ask a veterinarian to remove the thorn to prevent inflammation of the thorn site.

Poisoning by certain poisons can also cause dogs to cough. In this case, the cough is short and gentle, often accompanied by vomiting and foaming. The foaming is not sticky. As long as there is no muscle weakness or lack of energy, you can usually give some glucose oral liquid or inosine oral liquid and you will be fine.

Respiratory inflammation, pneumonia, gastroenteritis and other diseases can also cause dogs to cough. The cough caused by this disease is often a long-term continuous cough. In some cases, it is a sharp dry cough, sticky substances in the eyes and nose, diarrhea and vomiting, relatively sticky vomit, dull coat color, lethargy, and loss of appetite. In this case, seek veterinary treatment as soon as possible.

Dogs sometimes get angry easily, which can also lead to coughing. In this case, there is a dry cough, often with discharge from the corners of the eyes, more bloodshot eyes, dry stools, and no other obvious symptoms. In this case, you can buy some snake gallbladder, Sichuan clam, loquat dew or bezoar Qingfei powder and feed it.

Some dogs may also cough in the early stages of rabies attacks. In this case, the dog will tuck its tail, run around, be afraid of water, bark, foam, and look strangely. Since there is no effective treatment for rabies at this stage, once such a situation occurs and a rabid dog is confirmed, it must be culled immediately to prevent the spread of rabies.