Demodecosis is considered to be one of the most common skin diseases in dogs. Its carriers are microscopic mites that feed on loose fiber and animal skin. Demodekozom disease is more prone to dogs such breeds as the Bulldog, the Shepherd Dog, the Dog, the Rottweiler, the Dachshund, the Collie, the Scotch Terrier and some others. And more often young dogs can fall ill about a year, and also animals at the age of 10 years and older.
Signs and Symptoms of Demodectic Acid in Dogs
Initially, a sick dog develops a strong itch: the animal can itch for several hours. After a while reddening appears at the base of the hairs on the skin. A few days will pass, and brown bubbles will appear on these places, from which then a stinking liquid flows. At the site of the lesion, all the hair falls out.
If there are less than five lesions on the body of the dog, then they speak of a local form of pustular demodecosis. If the spots are much larger, then the generalized form of the disease is diagnosed. Sometimes dry scales can appear on the animal's body, which glue the wool. After a while, they fall off together with the wool, and in their place will remain wounds with purulent contents. There is a so-called pyoderma - a purulent inflammatory disease of the skin. In severe disease, the dog is depressed, refuses to eat, body temperature can be lowered.
Causes of demodectic infection in dogs
In the city, demodectic mites are carried by stray dogs. However, if your pet does not contact them, it does not mean that he can not get sick. After all, the owner of a dog can bring ticks from the street to the house, even on his shoes.
Demodetic disease is most often affected by animals with weakened immunity. The protective properties of the dog's skin directly depend on the conditions of its maintenance. For example, if you transfer a dog living on the street to a house, or vice versa, then it changes in the work of the sebaceous glands and the protective properties of the skin deteriorate. And this is the direct way to defeat demodicosis.
Feeding and exercise are always very closely related. If the dog is very active, then it often does not have enough nutrients, and with a sedentary lifestyle, excess nutrition is deposited in loose subcutaneous fat. When it grows, the immune system can no longer control the skin condition of the dog. Against this background, skin disease can also occur.
The course of demodicosis can be very long and in the absence of adequate treatment the dog dies as a result of exhaustion or contamination of blood.
Than to treat demodekoz at dogs?
Treatment for demodicosis in dogs should be performed only by a veterinarian. It is aimed, first of all, at destroying demodekoz mites, eliminating pyoderma, removing toxins from the body of the dog, restoring immunity.
The choice of a drug for killing ticks must be strictly individual,
Preparations for restoration of immunity are prescribed one week after the correction of feeding and the conditions of the infected dog. Medicines can be both animal and vegetable, and their choice depends on the condition of the animal.
To detoxify the body of the dog successfully used the drug gamavit , and to restore the integrity of the skin has a good effect balm gamabiol.