Every dog will experience a variety of problems in the process of growing up, and they all need timely detection and correct responses. For female dogs, mastitis is one of the most important diseases affecting dogs. What are the symptoms of mastitis in dogs? How to prevent and treat?

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Canine mastitis, also known as mastitis, is a disease that not only harms the physical and mental health of the female dog, but also affects the nursing puppies. Not bad either. This is an acute or chronic inflammation of one or more mammary glands that can occur at the same time. The disease often occurs in nursing bitches. So what are the causes and symptoms of canine mastitis?

1. Etiology

Acute mastitis is mainly seen in young dogs that damage the mammary gland or mammary gland trauma during suckling It is also seen in sudden weaning during lactation or when all puppies die and milk stagnates. The disease can also be secondary to acute metritis metastatic infection. The pathogens of infection are mainly streptococcus and staphylococcus. Chronic mastitis is more common in older dogs and may be related to hormonal imbalances.

2. Symptoms

In the early stage of mastitis, the mammary glands have varying degrees of congestion, redness, swollen and hard breasts, warm to the touch, Swollen lymph nodes in the breasts, decreased or stopped milk production. Systemic symptoms such as increased body temperature, depression, loss of appetite, dehydration, etc. appear as the infection progresses. Mastitis may develop into a breast abscess, where the center of the swelling begins to soften, fluctuate, and sometimes spontaneously drain. Chronic pus is characterized by the formation of cysts in breast tissue that sometimes develop into tumors.

Canine mastitis is inflammation of the breast due to accumulation of milk due to poor milk flow. Mastitis not only brings pain to bitches, but also to milk dogs. So what should you do when you encounter this kind of problem? How to treat it is good.

1. Treatment

Antibiotics should be used as soon as possible in the case of acute mastitis, and whole litter of nursing puppies should be weaned and artificially raised. Massage and milk the affected breasts several times a day. After milking, inject antibiotics into the breast pool through the nipple tube, 2 to 3 times a day. Antibiotics should be broad-spectrum, such as penicillin, streptomycin and ampicillin. Furans and sulfonamides can also be used. For breast abscesses, incision can be made at the softest place to drain the pus, and flushed with penicillin saline. Circular sealing with 0.2% procaine hydrochloride solution around the mammary gland has good curative effect. For the breasts with serious milk stagnation in the breast pool, in addition to expressing milk, the therapy of first hot compress and then cold compress can be carried out, twice a day. For dogs with systemic symptoms, infusion therapy should be used, and calcium and vitamin C should be added. For the formation of breast tumors, neoplastic mastectomy is feasible.

2. Prevention:

(1) Keep the environment clean.

(2) Shave the hair around the mammary glands and pay attention to the cleaning of the mammary glands.

(3) Trim the puppy's toenails to avoid scratching the bitch's mammary glands when drinking milk.