Canine distemper is a common highly contagious viral infectious disease, mainly through respiratory tract infection, is caused by viruses. The fatality rate is high, so if dogs show signs of canine distemper, be sure to take it to the doctor as soon as possible. So what are the treatment methods for canine distemper? Here are some recommended methods for you, I hope you can use it when your dog has signs of canine distemper.
Canine distemper must be treated by a doctor as soon as possible. If you are unfortunately infected with the virus, use immune serum and antibacterial drugs in the early stage of the disease Can be completely cured. Whether it is hospitalized or treated at home, it needs to prepare a warm and dry environment for it. The most important thing is that you should take your dog to receive vaccinations during the puppy period, avoid going out during the epidemic, and never come into contact with sick dogs and their excrement and vomit.
There is currently no effective drug treatment for this disease. When the sick dogs have obvious symptoms, the prognosis is often poor, and even if a few sick dogs have tolerated it, there are many sequelae. In general, specific and symptomatic therapy is taken to prevent secondary infection and reduce death. In the early stage of the disease, subcutaneous or intramuscular injection of anti-canine distemper hyperimmune serum can receive better results. Serum dosage is 2-3ml per kilogram of body weight, and it is used continuously for 2-3 days. In order to control secondary infections, broad-spectrum antibiotics such as kanamycin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol, and gentamicin can be used. To improve circulation and prevent dehydration, a large amount of glucose solution and electrolytes should be supplied. With anti-inflammatory, antipyretic drugs. At the same time, comprehensive treatment with cardiotonic, diuretic and hemostatic drugs is used. In order to protect the gastrointestinal tract, protein tannin and bismuth subnitrite can also be taken orally.
Treatment of large doses of monoclonal antibody injections, if it is small dogs 2 medium and large 4 dogs a day, use it for 10 days and 15 days, no need to pierce, it is useless, Replacing adult medication with calf thymosin which is an immune-boosting antiviral: Ribavirin, Vidolin (Riba is the best).
【Anti-inflammatory】Start with the worst penicillin, and then use the first-generation cephalosporins, the second-generation, and the third-generation cephalosporins for no more than 7 days or drug resistance.
【Diarrhea】You can take fosfomycin calcium orally and inject Qingda into the buttocks eye.
[Fever] When dexamethasone is used for hair, it is not necessary to pierce without fever. It is recommended that the drip is much faster than subcutaneous, oral Qingkailing or Shuangrelian, if you have convulsions but still have the desire to eat.
[Don't give up] When using piracetam, phenytoin, and fembarbital, you should consult the local pet doctor to prepare the dosage of traditional Chinese medicine. Bezoar can be used. Angong Pill and Antelope Horn Injection, plus adenine triphosphate and coenzyme A for nerve nutrition.
Be sure to remember that you can't stop the drug if you see it, and if the dog's anemia is not cured in the later stage, it will not be enough. This disease is mainly to prevent secondary infection. Canine distemper all die from complications. The environment is good, clean the dog cage frequently, and eat things that increase resistance. Come on.
Canine distemper is a highly contact and acute infectious disease caused by canine distemper virus (especially puppies) and carnivorous animals. The disease can occur all year round, especially in rainy summer and autumn or cold winter. Puppies aged 2-6 months are most susceptible and even die in litters.
1. Symptoms: Generally divided into the most acute, acute and chronic. The most acute type, with more sudden onset, body temperature above 40 ℃, foaming at the mouth. There are neurological symptoms, circling, ataxia or generalized myoclonus, convulsions, screaming, eye rolls, coma, and death after about 1-2 days. Acutely sick dogs generally show fatigue, loss of appetite, increased thirst, watery secretions from the eyes and nose, and body temperature of 39.5--40 °C, which will return to normal after 1-2 days. After 1-3 days, the body temperature rises again, showing a lingering fever. At this time, the appetite is lost, foaming at the mouth, and then vomiting yellow water. The eye secretions are thick, and some upper and lower eyelids are glued, or even the eyelids are ulcerated. Most sick dogs have diarrhea. Or bloody, red or cyanotic mouth and tongue, some mouth ulcers, a lot of salivation. Generally faster breathing, individual cough, dry nose. Course of disease 7-20 days, chronic cases up to several months.
2. Changes at autopsy: The lesions of the 3 dogs at autopsy are briefly described as follows: pulmonary hemorrhage, with inflammatory foci, and emphysema in some cases; hepatomegaly, blood stasis, and some gray-white necrotic foci; Gallbladder enlargement, bile filling; gastrointestinal mucosa with streaks or diffuse bleeding spots, jelly-like gastrointestinal contents; spleen blood stasis, some with large white necrotic foci of sorghum granules; lymph node stasis and swelling; some bladder mucosa Hypertrophy and bleeding spots.
3. Dialectical analysis of traditional Chinese medicine: Traditional Chinese veterinarians believe that exogenous disease is a disease characterized by fever when the animal body feels the evil of the six evils. The main dialectical method for exogenous diseases is to differentiate between Wei, Qi and Yingxue. When pathogens enter, they are generally divided into Wei first, then Qi, and then into Yingxue. The disease is relatively shallow in the wei, while the evil in the qi has entered the viscera, and the yin and blood are more serious. Canine distemper has elevated body temperature, diarrhea, red tongue, and neurological symptoms. It is the evidence that heat enters the pericardium and evil enters the blood. Governance clearing heat and cooling blood, astringent and astringent.
4. Treatment
4.1 Daqingye injection 4-8 ml, gentamicin 160,000-240,000 units (individual dogs use penicillin and streptomycin for better effect) , respectively, intramuscularly, 1 to 2 times a day, for 3 to 5 days. Those with severe fever should be given compound Ankibilin; those with severe asthma should be given aminophylline; those with severe bleeding should be given hemostatic sensitivity; those with ulceration of the tongue should be given vitamin B2;
4.2 On the basis of the above, combine rehydration and vitamin supplementation. 5% sugar saline 250-500ml, 50% glucose 20-40ml, 5% sodium carbonate 20-60ml, one intravenous injection or intraperitoneal injection; and 2.5% vitamin B12.5ml, 10% vitamin C5ml respectively intramuscular injection, Daily or every other day.
4.3 On the basis of the above, with Chinese herbal medicine decoction to take: Banlangen 20g, Guanzhong 15g, Gardenia 20g, Huangling 20g, Coptis chinensis 12g, Phellodendron 15g, Astragalus 20g, Angelica 12g, Chinese yam 15g, Atractylodes Rhizoma 12g, Citrus aurantium 12g, Muxiang 10g, Ginger Pinellia 18g, Bamboo Ru 20g, Raw Burnet 15g (Benefius charcoal used for blood pulling), Licorice 8g. This is the dosage for 3 puppies, decoction 3 times, about 1200 ml of decoction, 1 dose per day, divided into 2-3 times for gastric tube administration or rectal perfusion. Use 3 doses in a row.
5. Prevention: Isolate and treat sick dogs in a timely manner, spray and disinfect kennels and sports grounds with 4% sodium hydroxide solution, and vaccinate healthy puppies 3 times within 30-90 days, with an interval of 15 days. , Adult dogs are vaccinated once a year with penta vaccine.