Rickets – change of structure and deformation of a bone tissue which meets at young dogs and puppies more often. It is caused by shortage in an organism of vitamin D and violation of exchange of calcium and phosphorus. Most often rickets is shown during intensive growth at dogs of large breeds, at the age of about half a year. Fortunately, to treat this illness quite perhaps and, at the correct approach, its consequences can be nullified.
Instruction
1. Changes in flavoring addictions of a puppy can serve as the first signs signaling about the beginning of a disease – he can intensively begin to gnaw furniture, books, to lick the walls whitewashed by lime. At a puppy the gait can exchange, he can begin to limp, paws at him weaken. After a while, having felt joints, you can find thickenings, pressing on a bone becomes painful for a dog. Do not wait until deformation of bones of the head and a basin begins – immediately begin treatment.
2. Treatment you carry out complex. It is better to show a puppy to the veterinarian who will appoint medicines of calcium and phosphorus. Balance a diet of a dog, in it daily there has to be a crude meat, and time a week – a piece of boiled sea fish without bones. It is also possible to give it according to a dosage, depending on weight, medicines of cod-liver oil. Surely give to a puppy fermented milk products, milk and cottage cheese, porridges, rye bread and butter. Except crude egg yolks add a pounded shell and shredded bones to food.
3. Daily walk with a dog, especially on sunny days. As well as at the person, under the influence of direct sunshine in an organism of a dog vitamin D begins to be produced. If outside the window – winter, arrange to the favourite a sunbed by means of a mercury-quartz lamp. It is better to put a puppy on a back and to keep a lamp at arm's length about 1 meter. Begin sessions of artificial suntan from 2 minutes and finish their duration up to 7-8 minutes. Usually, there are 10-15 sessions enough. Do not forget to cover eyes to a dog with a peak or the folded towel.
4. Let's a puppy the vitamin supplements containing vitamins A, D to E. Mozhno enter intramuscularly Trivitamin of their calculation for 1 ml on each 10 kg of weight of a puppy. It is necessary to make not less than three injections every 7 days. After that it is possible to puncture "Ergocalciferol" in the dosage corresponding to weight. Intravenously you enter to a puppy a calcium gluconate 2-3 times a day on half-gram. Surely consult with the veterinarian, defining a dosage of medicines.