Many owners don’t know how to take care of and nurse their beloved pups after they get sick. Today, we are going to tell you about caring for your dog when he is sick.
1, vomiting: the dog is very easy to vomit animals, if before and after the vomiting and no different when the phenomenon, especially after vomiting the dog and eat its vomit, it does not matter. If not, and vomit several times a day, after vomiting will want to drink water, but often will drink the water vomit so want to drink water again, and again vomit, this is very serious, pay attention to as long as the amount of water to be able to moisten the oral cavity can be, there are a lot of owners don’t understand the situation and try to give the water, the opposite will make the symptom deteriorate this is should be paid special attention to.
2, dysentery: this is a common symptom other than vomiting, dysentery is due to rapid passage of intestinal substances or intestinal mucosal lesions, intestinal mucosal hypersecretion. If the dysentery is not very serious and the appetite is poor, try to give it the food that it likes, and the food that is not easy to digest is absolutely not allowed. If the number of dysentery in a day is very high, it is better to withhold food for the whole day in order to alleviate the condition easily. After fasting, the liquid food, such as diluted rice soup, etc., will be fed in small amount and several times, and then gradually give the food porridge – soft rice – ordinary food.
3, loss of appetite: loss of appetite is caused by illness, the original disease is not cured naturally will not have an appetite, but if the dog will not vomit, nausea, we can use a rubber tube to force a small amount of liquid food, or hand will be stuffed with meatballs into its mouth, sometimes this method will make the dog appetite.
4, runny nose, eye boogers: some diseases will have nasal water, especially when the cold, this time with a cotton wool, or with a cotton swab to wipe, wipe clean, in order to avoid the nose dry and cracked, can be coated with olive oil. There are eye boogers can use two percent of boric acid water to cotton dipped wipe, and then point on the non-irritating eye drops.
5, high fever: fever is caused by the disease, is the body and disease resistance performance, if the fever should be the disease, on the contrary, the body temperature is very low, it means that the seriousness of the disease, high fever if it lasts for too long will make the physical weakness, must do to reduce the temperature of the measures. When you have a high fever, you should pay special attention to the fact that your pulse rate will increase and your breathing rate will increase, making it difficult to breathe. The most important thing is to keep quiet when the fever rises, sometimes the body temperature rises will feel cold and shivering (especially in winter), this should be the bedding bed thick, and prepare hot water bags and heating appliances, and do not let the wind from the kennel gap blowing into.
6, cough: cough from the trachea to the secretion or foreign matter out of the kind of defense reaction action, no phlegm for dry cough, phlegm known as wet cough, coughing mostly in the eating, exercise, barking, suffering from a variety of respiratory diseases and heart disease is easy to cough, coughing excessively intense when the phlegm and stomach food spit out the care of coughing is to make the dog quiet, no longer exercise.