Dirofyalirioz ─ this parasitic disease at dogs. Parasites can live in a pulmonary artery, in the right cardiac muscle or under skin. Disease carriers are mosquitoes. Therefore it is necessary to carry out prevention of this disease to the spring and summer period.
Adult individuals of parasites reach up to 40 mm in length and 1.3 mm thickness. Larvae can circulate in blood several years. The disease is very dangerous and sometimes comes to an end with death for an animal. Dirofilyarioz is a pulmonary and warm form or hypodermic. Less often parasites appear in an eye cloud or in a brain.
Diagnostics and symptoms of a dirofilyarioz
The disease is determined by blood test. For the correct diagnostics and definition of disease severity it is necessary to make a chest X-ray and an echocardiography (ECHO).
Symptoms depend on that how long the dog was infected. During a heat it is possible to notice the naggers, skin reddening. In the winter these symptoms smooth out. At a warm dirofilyarioz the animal sharply loses weight, quickly gets tired, sleeps much. There is short wind, dry cough, rattles in lungs. At cough allocations with blood are possible. Swellings of the size of egg in mammary glands, a skull or extremities are possible. At a cut pus or liquid is emitted. It is also possible to find several parasites. If at a dog hypodermic dirofilyarioz, then the disease can proceed almost asymptomatically. Sometimes it is possible to notice damages of head skin or about eyes.
Treatment
Treatment is in expelling adult individuals, to get rid of larvae in blood, to prevent new infection and to support the weakened organism. Exile of adult worms happens in the surgical and chemical way. Such medicines as ditiazanin, mebendazol, levamizol are most often applied. However any of them does not give a guarantee from emergence of remission of a disease. At a surgical way the general anesthesia and penetration into a heart cavity is necessary for a dog. It is very heavy for a sick dog. Expensive operation. At a chemical way the died parasites can cork vessels that is very dangerous. And medicine is very toxic. At the same time rare and expensive. Exile of larvae from blood is possible only chemotherapy. That the risk of a disease was as little as possible, prevention is necessary. In the cities where mosquitoes live in basements all the year round, the prevention needs to be carried out every month. At the same time it is necessary to observe a dosage strictly. In summer of mosquitoes and month after it, except medicines the dog should put on a special collar. Only the doctor who made the diagnosis can appoint treatment of a dog. To self-medicate very dangerously!