What are the symptoms of Tibetan Mastiff gastroenteritis? You may also want to know, so what are the symptoms of Tibetan Mastiff gastroenteritis? How to treat it? Below, Xiaodouzi will share with you the symptoms and treatment methods of Tibetan Mastiff gastroenteritis.

Symptoms and treatment methods of gastroenteritis in Tibetan Mastiffs:

Cause:

Mainly due to the dog foraging for rotten or contaminated food, or accidentally ingesting poisonous bait, irritating drugs, foreign objects, etc. It may also be secondary to certain infectious diseases and parasitic diseases.

Symptoms:

Diarrhea is the main symptom of enteritis and can be seen at the beginning of the disease. The feces is liquid and has a foul odor, and in the later stages it is often mixed with mucus, blood, foam, etc. During auscultation of the abdomen, one can hear enhanced bowel movements or thunderous sounds, the abdomen is tense, and the waist and back are curved. 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. If 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. 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, the urine output is reduced, and the color is dark.

Treatment methods:

(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 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 clean the gastrointestinal tract, laxatives such as sodium sulfate and artificial salt should be used orally in appropriate amounts.

(3) To reduce inflammation and relieve diarrhea, use 0.1-0.5 g/kg body weight of berberine and give it to sick dogs orally 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) Cardiac rehydration In order to prevent dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, the sick dog should be given intravenous infusion of 100-500 ml of Ringer's solution, 100-500 mg of vitamin C, and 20 ml of 25% glucose solution, daily intravenous infusion 1-2 times, or intravenous infusion of lactic acid compound sodium chloride solution.

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