In order to find out why the puppy has diarrhea, and to assess how serious the situation is, you should immediately contact the veterinarian. As a rule, diarrhea in a puppy happens for three main reasons:
- presence of worms . Infection often occurs in the womb, or with milk.
- changes in nutrition. Meat and fish appear in the diet, walks in the street begin, where the puppy can pick something from the ground that is not of good quality.
- infection. Easily tolerated viral enteritis, plague.
These three reasons can occur simultaneously, they can be determined only by a specialist. Self-medication is dangerous in those cases if diarrhea is accompanied by fever, vomiting, discharge from the nose, lethargy and refusal of food and water.
Diarrhea in newborn puppies can be caused by the milk of their own mother. In this case, of course, you should transfer the puppy to artificial feeding.
Bloody diarrhea in a puppy can be caused by both a dangerous infection and mechanical damage to the walls of the anal opening or intestine, traumatized by the sharp edges of the bones eaten by the puppy. In any case, such diarrhea is a very serious reason for a complete examination of the pet, since this symptom can be caused by a fatal disease and the puppy can be helped if time is not wasted.
How to help the puppy?
To decide what to give a puppy for diarrhea, it is desirable to determine from what it started. If there is confidence that the diarrhea is caused by a change of foods, or the milk of a nursing mother, then the puppy should be kept on a starving diet for a minimum of 12 hours, if necessary, give antispasmodics to relieve pain in the stomach. Also, it is worth giving the puppy activated charcoal and providing a plentiful drink to avoid dehydration. After stopping diarrhea, you should feed the puppy with low-fat food, give the pet a lean broth, rice, kefir.
If diarrhea occurs due to poor digestibility of food, then every three hours you can give Smekty a spoonful. After a short diet, the formula for feeding should be diluted only with water, with the addition of glucose, avoiding milk. You can try yourself to treat the puppy, only in the absence of temperature, vomiting and blood.
If, after all measures taken, the puppy's diarrhea continues, it can be a serious sign of a chronic illness, infection, pancreatitis, enteritis, and many other problems requiring the intervention of a veterinarian and the appointment of appropriate treatment.