Isolation of liquid feces occurs in all animals, and various causes can cause this unpleasant phenomenon. Some dog breeders start to panic and stuff their pets with antibiotics and other drugs, others - fall into the other extreme, without giving it any importance. They believe that the disease will pass by itself and should not be particularly worried. When eating poor-quality food can come easy poisoning, which occurs after a daily diet, but if the improvement does not occur, you should immediately consult a doctor. Especially do not hesitate, if the stool masses are observed blood.
Causes of diarrhea with blood
- The appearance of blood can cause mechanical damage to the walls of the intestine or anus with sharp bones or other accidentally swallowed foreign matter.
- Ulcerous lesions of the mucous walls of the digestive tract cause an acute intestinal infection - salmonellosis. They are inflamed and often bleed.
- Parasites are sometimes planted in the esophagus, liver and kidneys of the animal, which damage the walls of blood vessels. The glistens attach to the host's mucous membranes and feed on its blood.
- Parvovirus enteritis in dogs causes severe diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Such diarrhea with blood in the puppy often leads to the death of the baby.
- Everyone knows a fairly dangerous disease in animals - the plague of carnivores. In addition to diarrhea, it also has other symptoms - photophobia, fever, the expiration of pus from the eyes. Cal in a dog can be black or red.
- The appearance of blood in the stool can cause a swelling, which can seriously damage the integrity of the intestine and cause inflammation.
- Endocrine disease (Addison's disease) often causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
- Acute pancreatitis.
- Bleeding can cause side effects of certain drugs or toxic substances. Prolonged use of antibiotics can provoke diarrhea with blood.
You can see that the appearance of diarrhea with blood can be a symptom of many dangerous diseases. This is an occasion for an immediate visit to the vet. Bright red blood indicates that it appeared in the thick part of the intestine or almost at the exit from it in the anus. If the stomach or thin section of the intestine bleeds, while the blood gets to the outside, it has time to digest and the stool becomes black or coffee-colored. If there are problems with the liver, the selection becomes white. Watery feces with mucus, which has an extremely unpleasant smell, yellow or gray, can occur with parvoviral enteritis. But only laboratory studies can give an accurate answer to what caused bloody diarrhea.
How to treat diarrhea with blood?
Self-medication here is unlikely to help, especially if diarrhea is accompanied by vomiting, general weakness, fever,