When keeping the house of dogs you need to be prepared for the fact that in the warm season there is the possibility of attacking them with ticks during walks in the fresh air. Feeding on blood, a mite can infect a pet with pyroplasmosis or borreliosis, which are dangerous infectious diseases. If borreliosis occurs in most cases in a latent form, then the untreated pyroplasmosis can destroy an animal in a short period of time.
Signs of tick-borne encephalitis in dogs
The incubation period of tick-borne encephalitis in dogs varies within 1.5-3 weeks, after which the first symptoms appear, and there is a need for treatment. The disease begins with a high fever. The pet becomes sluggish and indifferent, it has no appetite and urination is impaired. The nervous system of the animal suffers most. The consequences of infection can be very different, from tremors and impaired coordination of movements to paralysis and convulsions.
If the dog is sick after walking, you need to pay attention to the color of urine. The main sign of pyroplasmosis is its darkening, sometimes it becomes black. With this disease, the spleen and liver suffer, yellowing of the mucous membranes, as well as vomiting and diarrhea.
Treatment of tick-borne encephalitis in dogs
Preventive measures should be strictly observed in dysfunctional places for epidemic indications, which include wearing special collars and treating pets with antiparasitic drops or sprays. In the spring-summer period, the dog is treated at least once a month. The faster the mite dies, the less parasites will get into the blood of the animal.
With obvious symptoms of tick-borne encephalitis in dogs and laboratory confirmation of pyroplasmosis, injections of parasite-destroying drugs (veriben, azidin, forticarb, pyrostop, etc.) are made. They support the body with cardiac medicines and hepatoprotectors. In time, the treatment started gives a positive result, which can not be said about late diagnosis.