INFECTIOUS CANINE HEPATITIS
Hepatitis is caused by a virus and can affect a dog. As the name suggests, this hepatitis is different from the one prevalent in human beings. The chances are that the disease hits the dog in his young age rather than when he gets older.
Infectious Canine Hepatitis is a water-borne disease and can spread through saliva, urine and faecal matter of the diseased dogs. The symptoms would include a sudden rise in temperature, followed by drowsiness, vomiting, thirst, loss of appetite, watery discharge from eyes and nose which thickens gradually, vomiting and often bloody diarrhoea. The are in and around the liver feels painful to touch at times there is a difficulty even in putting pressure on the stomach. Another symptom is the fiery redness of the murcous membranes inside the oral cavity. Some vets use this symptom to distinguish the disease from distemper . The symptoms might be accompanied by swelling in the head, neck and abdomen.
Though the disease is categorized as a 'difficult to be treated' one, the majority of dogs recover with proper medication. It has the chances of being fatal only when the dog gets it at an early stage of life. At times the puppy might die even before you get to realize many of the alarming symptoms.
The disease can be prevented by vaccination. The vaccine is generally given along with the distemper vaccine, due to the similarities of the two diseases.
Anal
sacs
Allergy
Abscesses
Bone
Fracture
Bladder
infection
Blood
parasites
Canker
Cough
Constipation
Distemper
Diarrhoea
Ear
infection
Emetics
Eczema
Fever
Fleas
Fits
and convulsions
Hard
Pad
Infection
of the bladder
Internal
Parasites
Lice
Leptospirosis
Limping
Mange
Nose
Bleeding
Parainfluenza
Pneumonia
Pyometra
Parvo
virus Infection
Rabies
Seizures
Sting
Strep
throat
Ticks
Tick-fever
Tongue
injury
Trachea
Bronchitis
Vomiting
Vomits
of blood
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