Internal parasites affect the health and growth of dogs and also create conditions for the invasion of other pathogens. If parents don’t know about it and let it go, serious cases can lead to the death of dogs and even infect humans and children. Therefore, it is very important to deworm your dog regularly.
How to identify internal parasites:
Big stomach, no food, When it is also bulging.
Eating a lot, but not growing very strong, but thin and sluggish.
I like to sit on the floor and grind my anal part.
Consume raw meat regularly.
The mother of the furry child has been infected with the parasite, which is then passed through breast milk.
Common endoparasites:
Tapeworms:
Tapeworms are intestinal parasites in dogs It is the longest of the worms and is very harmful to the health of dogs. The small hooks and suckers on the head of the worm attach to the mucosa of the small intestine, causing damage to the intestinal mucosa and enteritis. The worm absorbs a lot of nutrition from the dog, causing obstacles to growth and development. It can cause malnutrition, weight loss, anemia, gastrointestinal, and neurological symptoms. In severe cases, it can lead to systemic weakness and death.
During the initial infection of tapeworms, most dogs are asymptomatic. In severe infection, enteritis, hemorrhagic enteritis, and vomiting may occur.
When the intestinal worms can enter the stomach, the worms can be vomited along with the stomach contents during vomiting.
Heartworm:
Canine heartworm is a blood parasitic disease transmitted by mosquito bites. Parasitic in the right heart and adjacent blood vessels, serious can lead to the death of dogs. Since heartworm is parasitic in the right ventricle and pulmonary artery of dogs, it will also cause certain damage to the heart, lungs, and kidneys of dogs.
Lack of energy, loss of appetite, persistent dry cough
wheezing, ascites or edema of the legs, jaundice, heart and lung failure, and even death
Trichuris:
Trichuriasis in dogs is caused by the parasitic nematode C. fox in the cecum of dogs. It happens all over our country. The disease mainly affects puppies and can cause death in severe infections.
Severe infection can cause acute or chronic enteritis because the head of the parasite burrows deep into the mucous membrane;
The parasite often causes anemia by sucking blood;
Ascaris:
Ascaris is the largest parasitic nematode in the dog’s intestine. . Ascaris eggs are devoured by dogs and hatch into larvae in the small intestine. The larvae can secrete hyaluronidase and protease, invade the mucosa and submucosa of the small intestine, and burrow into other tissues of the body.
When a small number of roundworms migrate into the lungs, dogs may have a fever, chills, cough, dyspnea, asthma, bloody sputum, and loss of appetite;
A large number of roundworms in the intestinal tract will appear to various degrees Gastrointestinal symptoms such as polyphagia or anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and occasional
hookworms:
Hookworms live in the small intestine of dogs; the worm is 1-2 cm long, with a curved front end and three sharp hook-like teeth on the mouth margin, which can deeply “pin” the intestinal mucosa to suck blood. The larvae mainly invade the host through the skin (or orally), travel to the heart and lungs with the blood, and then transfer to the digestive tract to parasitize through the respiratory tract and throat. Pregnant dogs can enter the fetus through the placenta.
The parasite secretion can make the dog’s blood not coagulate, causing continuous bleeding, and the sick dog will suffer from severe anemia due to continuous and massive blood loss.
Sick dogs have diarrhea with blood and mucus, anemia, weight loss, loss of appetite, sometimes edema, and growth and development disorders.
Toxoplasma gondii:
Toxoplasma gondii is a single-celled intracellular parasite that travels with the bloodstream to various parts of the body. It is almost the most successful single-celled animal on earth, and it is ubiquitous in all parts of the world. Many mammals and birds, including various livestock and poultry, are infected by it, and infection in humans also occurs.
Eating meat from infected animals, such as cooking at insufficient temperature or too short a time
contact with contaminated soil, the eggs can survive for a long time in the external environment
What should be paid attention to when deworming dogs:
When feeding dogs normally, deworming should be done when the dog is eating normally so as to avoid deworming caused by physical discomfort and Adverse reactions to insecticides.
Deworming medication should be fed as directed and dosed according to body weight.
Put the medicine into the medicine feeder;
Press the medicine feeder against the space behind the canine teeth and go deep into the mouth, as close to the base of the tongue as possible.
