The most widespread problem of owners of dogs – infection with worms of their pet. Kind of the owner tried to protect a dog from this trouble, worms all the same appear since their eggs are present everywhere, and the animal can even inhale them and be infected. Competently to deal with this problem, will not prevent to know what species of worms infected a dog.
How to understand that at the worm's dog
The dog can be infected by worms, but at the same time external manifestations can not be. If the dog does not lose flesh, well eats and normally behaves, it is enough to such animal to carry out expulsion of helminths in the preventive purposes once in three months and before each inoculation.
But sometimes the dog has some diseases which symptoms the owner does not connect with worms. Though these signs can indicate not only existence of worms, and even their look. If the dog constantly hiccups, tears her after feeding, diarrhea often opens, there is bronchitis, the animal can be infected with round worms. Frequent allergic reactions, impassability of intestines, vomiting, a diarrhea, sometimes salivation and spasms can demonstrate existence of flat worms. If the animal is infected with esophageal worms, it complicated breath, there is cough and suffocation, also such dog strongly loses weight. Dogs can also have warm-hearted worms. In this case the animal quickly gets tired, coughs, at it legs and a stomach swell, spasms and a photophobia begin.
If your pet has no similar symptoms, but you doubt that it has no worms and do not want to overload the favourite's liver with anthelminthic medicines, it is possible to hand over dog kcal on the analysis. For reliability of result it is necessary to make it 2-3 times because not all worms live also in intestines and not always throw out the eggs in kcal. Happens that after preventive expulsion of helminths the dog together with a stake leaves worms. You have a chance to consider them and to define, round they or flat. Round look as spaghetti, flat – as noodles. Proceeding from what was seen, it is possible to continue treatment, having picked up medicine which will effectively fight against a concrete species of worms.
Why prevention from worms is necessary?
Worms are very dangerous to dogs if not to fight with them. They lodge in different bodies and, expanding there, puncture them, putting mechanical damages and increasing risk of infection with an infection. In addition, worms – parasites who select all nutrients at an organism and throw out toxins in blood, poisoning a dog and reducing her immunity. It is especially pernicious for the growing organism. At puppies the rickets against the background of worms can develop. If at a dog there are a lot of worms, they are weaved into a ball which can become the reason of obstruction of intestines. And it often leads to a lethal outcome. Therefore it is better not to neglect prevention to save a dog from similar problems. Besides tablets and suspensions from worms, an animal it is also necessary to process in due time means from fleas and ticks since these insects are also capable to bring in an organism of a dog of egg of worms.