Puppy diarrhea
Is it time to panic?
Puppy diarrhea is quite common. Always a cause of concern to you being the owner. Do you know when to call your vet?
Here, I will give you some advice for you to use in real life.
Common causes of puppy diarrhea
- Stress and Change of diet
- Virus
- Worms
- Stress
New home stress and new food
This is very typical cause of stress in puppies. Stress affects the whole body and affects the immune system as well. Can be very beneficial to give same food as given by the breeder. Later you can change the food to the one you prefer
Most puppies like to be very close.
Cuddle your new friend and this will surely reduce the "left alone" stress experienced by your pup.
If you have children talk to them before the pup is arriving. Let them know it is a living animal. So teach them to be careful.
Virus
Parvo and Corona virus infections are probably the most common and well known.
Parvo virus is a killer. It destroys the normal structure of the intestinal lining. The intestines will bleed and bloody diarrhea is seen. The normal fluid balance is totally gone and the pup can die within hours.
As a young vet I worked in the UK for two years. I saw a lot of parvo cases. Sometime during 2-3 days somewhere between 30-50 dogs caught the disease and came to the animal hospital. A lot of them died despite intensive treatment.
Corona virus is kind of the same but affects the intestines less. The lining can repair and good chances of recovery if treatment started in time
Worms
Quite well known problem. Probably roundworms infections are the most usual. Easy to cure if this cause puppy diarrhea.
Talk to your vet what kind of worms are usual in your country. It can vary a lot.
Use medicine against worms shortly after arriving is very important. Sometimes you will get quite surprised to see the result.
Symptoms and what to look fore
Diarrhea can vary a lot. It would help your vet a lot if you could be helpful and give the following information
Are your pup tired or is he behaving normal
The diarrhea is it yellow or very dark?
How frequent is it coming?
Any vomiting?
Any mucus in it?
and most important
Is there any blood?
If blood can enter the intestinal lumen, then bacteria can enter the blood. If you see any blood in the diarrhea you have to call your vet. Antibiotic is needed to prevent sepsis (bacteria in the blood).
What can you do?
If happy and play full and no blood seen in the stools. Well, test to give some soft food for some days. Boiled chicken, fish
perhaps some pasta is my favorites to recommend. Feed small portions and more often than normal. This should become better within
a day or two. If not - call your vet.
lot of different probiotics can be used in puppy diarrhea. Other "anti diarrhea" remedies can be very use full. Talk to your vet about this before you need it
In my practice I use lot of probioticts and find them very well working. Lot of them protect the inside of the
intestines and does help to stop diarrhea very well.
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