Due to the current poor air quality, it is easy to cause respiratory diseases, and dogs are also prone to pneumonia. So what are the causes of dog pneumonia, what are the symptoms of dog pneumonia, and how to treat dog pneumonia?

 

1. Reasons for pneumonia

1. Due to colds, poor air, poor ventilation, overwork, and lack of vitamins in the body, It leads to respiratory tract infection and decreased body resistance, so that microorganisms (staphylococcus, streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella and mold, etc.) in or out of the respiratory tract will flare up after a period of incubation period, making animals vulnerable to viruses. Invasion.

2. Inhalation of irritating gas, soot or ingestion of foreign objects into the lungs, etc.

3. Continuing factors, such as bronchitis, influenza, canine distemper; or parasites, such as paragonimiasis, Toxoplasma gondii, roundworm larvae, etc. can lead to pneumonia.

2. Symptoms of pneumonia in dogs

The symptoms of acute bronchitis were present at the beginning of the disease, with runny nose, dry cough, and bronchial sounds. With the development of the disease, the general condition deteriorates, the spirit is depressed, the appetite decreases or does not eat, the body temperature rises to 39.54 degrees, it is flaccid fever, dyspnea, the frequency increases, the conjunctival cyanosis, the sunken eyeball, and dehydration.

Lung auscultation, lesions, alveolar sounds diminished, crepitus audible, and sounds in healthy areas.

Blood changes, total leukocyte count, and neutropenia, with left shift of the nucleus. X-ray examination showed thickening of lung markings and patchy shadows.

3. Treatment of dog pneumonia

(1) Penicillin 50,000 units/kg body weight, streptomycin 30,000 units/kg body weight, ground Dexamethasone 0.1-0.3 mg/kg body weight, mixed and injected intramuscularly, twice a day, for 5-7 days.

(2) Tetracycline 10-15 mg/kg body weight, dissolved in 5% glucose, intravenous injection, 2 times a day. Or Pioneeromycin 56 mg/kg body weight, dexamethasone 0.2 mg/kg body weight, mixed intramuscular injection, 2 times/day.

(3) Supportive therapy, 5% glucose saline 15-30 ml/kg body weight, 5% sodium bicarbonate injection 1-2 ml/kg body weight, mixed intravenous infusion.

(4) Sputum antitussive, ammonium chloride 50 mg/kg body weight, Kebiqing 2.5 mg/kg body weight, orally twice a day. Asthma can be relieved with aminophylline 10-15 mg/kg body weight, orally 2 times a day.

(5) Ephedrine should be taken orally when breathing difficulties and heart failure. 5-15 mg each time. Aminophylline, 10 mg/kg body weight, over or intravenously every 8 hours. For breathing difficulties caused by hypoxia, oxygen inhalation should be given. Anorexia, give intravenous injection to supplement body fluids and nutrition.