Ticks are the widespread parasites menacing to both the person, and animals. The serious disease can become result of their sting. Pincers are carriers of parasites – the simplest of the sort Babesia which cause in dogs a dangerous disease – a piroplasmosis.
Where the dog can pick up a tick
The popular belief is enough that in the city nothing threatens the four-footed favourite, and the danger is constituted only by departures on the nature and walks in the woods. However the ticks who were once living mainly in dense forests in the last decades quite comfortably feel in city parks, squares and just on lawns in the yards. Owners should be vigilant as the tick can bite a dog anywhere.
What the sting of a tick is dangerous byMany ixodic pincers are carriers of such disease as a piroplasmosis. As soon as the infected tick stuck to an animal, Babesia immediately gets into blood. At a dog after a sting temperature increases, she becomes sluggish, refuses food. Availability of blood in urine is possible from what that gains brown color. If treatment is not begun, urine becomes normal color, and temperature falls below norm. But it does not mean that the animal is on the mend. On the contrary, it can have a vomiting, mucous membranes, whites of the eyes and skin – to get a yellow shade as functioning of a liver is broken, anemia begins. If owners do not address the veterinarian, most often the disease comes to the end with a lethal outcome. However even the timely trip to veterinary clinic does not guarantee that the piroplasmosis will pass without consequences for a dog. Unfortunately, this disease has the complications. During a disease the struck erythrocytes collapse and brought out of an organism through kidneys. If too many red blood cells suffered, they are capable to cork renal tubules owing to what the renal failure develops. Intoxication influences all organism, however the liver and a brain most of all suffers, inflammations develop. Because of mass death of erythrocytes at an animal the anemia begins – oxygen loses ability to come to all fabrics and bodies in enough. Against the background of it at an animal multiple microblood clots are formed. These complications constitute danger of death.
Prevention of complications
After you together with the veterinarian cured your dog of a piroplasmosis, take preventive measures to avoid complications. The diet of the had animal has to contain the increased amount of meat quickly to restore erythrocytes. To a dog appoint Essentsiale or other medicines supporting a liver. Under the supervision of the doctor the plasma exchange can be carried out.