Causes of difficulty breathing in dogs

1. Heart disease: congestive heart disease, insufficient cardiac blood output, cardiac malformation, severe arrhythmia and shock, etc.
2. Neuromuscular diseases: serious central nervous system problems, such as trauma, tumors, infections, polyneuritis, spinal diseases and myasthenia gravis.
3. Metabolic diseases: acidemia, diabetes, uremia, etc.
4. Blood diseases: heme deficiency and anemia.
5. Vascular diseases: such as pulmonary vascular embolism.
6. Endocrine diseases: hyperadrenocortical dysfunction.
7. Other possible causes: fever, pain, obesity, ascites or abdominal visceral organ hypertrophy, compression affecting respiratory function.

Symptoms of dyspnea in dogs

1. Sitting: When the dog sits on the ground with its front legs straight, its head raised high, and refuses to rest or sleep, it Watch out for intrathoracic problems. For example, diaphragm rupture, hydrothorax, empyema, and congestive heart failure.
2. Cough: If it is accompanied by dyspnea and mild and wet cough symptoms, it may be congestive heart failure. If it is dry cough and goose noise, the probability of tracheal collapse is highest.
3. Nasal obstruction: You can gently place a piece of toilet paper at the exit of the nasal cavity to determine whether there is airflow.
4. Upper respiratory tract obstruction: tracheal collapse, stridor, snoring, trachea becoming very sensitive, and goose crowing, causing difficulty in exhalation and inhalation.

Treatment methods for dogs with dyspnea

Because this type of disease requires immediate treatment, please seek medical attention immediately. In addition, this type of disease requires more testing instruments to diagnose. Before seeking medical treatment, you should contact the hospital by phone and inform the patient of your condition to find out whether the hospital equipment you want to seek medical treatment can provide appropriate medical services or whether there is a suitable hospital recommendation.