Demodekoz - an infectious disease. It is dangerous both to dogs, and to the person. The activator is the tick who gets on a body of an animal and begins to parasitize. At detection of the first signs of a demodekoz it is necessary to begin treatment quickly.
Activator of a demodekoz
Young individuals (about one year) and short-haired breeds are most subject to infection demodekozy. The activator gets on a body of an animal through the infected objects of use or from the infected dog. Damp and warm environment the most suitable for the activator. It can live in such conditions 2-3 weeks. It is enough for reproduction. Sweat and sebaceous glands, a liver, a spleen, hair bulbs - the habitat of a tick. Exactly there he forms the whole colonies.
Demodekoz sometimes call a disease of stray dogs, but it at all not so. Quite healthy, domestic dog can get sick. Only short time is enough to contact to the infected individual. The incubation period lasts 4-6 weeks, then primary signs of a demodekoz follow.
Forms of a demodekoz
There are several forms of a disease. Hypodermic demodekoz arises when the tick breaks through tunnels under skin, causing thereby allergic reaction in a dog. If it is several pets, then treatment needs to be carried out at once at all as the disease is infectious. At a skin demodekoz the tick lives on a surface and eats the died-off cells of an epithelium.
Symptoms
Symptoms of a disease are the following signs: severe itch, reddening of integuments, loss of wool, sore, blisters. First of all head skin is surprised. On the place of localization of a tick, wool drops out, skin reddens, is wrinkled, grows coarse, there are scales which burst and turn then into an ichor. After the head the body and extremities is surprised. The dog ails, promptly loses weight. In the started cases can die of septic inflammation. Treatment has to be complex. First of all it is necessary to stop activity of a tick, and then already to restore protective forces of skin.
Prevention of a disease
To protect the pet from an unpleasant disease it is necessary to watch it during walkings on the street that it did not contact to vagrant to animals who can conceal in themselves danger. For prevention of skin diseases it is necessary to watch hygiene of the pet and sanitary conditions in the apartment. Every day it is necessary to examine a dog for identification of different damages of integuments. In case of detection of suspicious symptoms it is better to show the pet to the veterinarian. The clinic will take all necessary analyses, including will make scrape of skin for laboratory researches. The dog needs to be washed with special shampoos from time to time and to comb out wool.