Where the dog can pick up the tick
A fairly common belief that the city's four-legged pet is not in danger, but the danger is exclusively the field trips and forest walks. However, mites that used to live mainly in dense forests, in recent decades quite feel comfortable in urban parks, public gardens, and on lawns in yards. Owners should be vigilant, since a tick can bite your dog anywhere.
How dangerous a tick bite
Many ticks are carriers of diseases such as piroplasmosis. Once an infected tick has stuck to the animal, Babesia immediately enters the bloodstream. The dog after the bite fever, she becomes lethargic, refuses to eat. Perhaps the presence of blood in the urine, something that gets brown.
If treatment is not initiated, the urine becomes of normal color, and the temperature falls below normal. But this does not mean that the animal is recovering. On the contrary, it may appear vomiting, mucous membranes, whites of the eyes and the skin buy yellow, as impaired liver function, anemia begins. If the owners do not go to the vet, most often the disease ends in death.
However, even a timely visit to a veterinary clinic does not guarantee that piroplasmosis will be no consequences for the dog. Unfortunately, this disease has its complications. During the illness of the affected red blood cells are destroyed and eliminated from the body through the kidneys. If I hit too many red blood cells, they can clog the renal tubules, thereby developing kidney failure.
Intoxication affects the entire body, but most affected are the liver and brain to develop inflammation. Due to massive loss of red blood cells in an animal starts anaemia, the oxygen loses its ability to flow to all tissues and organs in sufficient quantity. Against this background, the animal has formed multiple microthrombuses. These complications are deadly.
Prevention of complications
After you in conjunction with the vet cured your dog from piroplasmosis, take preventive measures to avoid complications. Recover the animal diet should contain high amount of meat to quickly restore the red blood cells. The dog assign "Essentiale" or other drugs that support the liver. Under the supervision of a physician can be held plasmapheresis.
