The diagnosis given to a beloved pet is a terrible sentence for the owner, especially if it is enteritis. At the first signs of this disease, you urgently need to contact your veterinarian to prescribe the correct treatment for your pet. To prevent enteritis from recurring, you need to know how it is transmitted.
How does the disease manifest
Enteritis is contagious or non-infectious. The difference between one and the other is that the former is transmitted from one animal to another, while the latter is not. The pathways and consequences of the disease also differ.
Infectious enteritis occurs as if for no apparent reason, that is, without changing the place of walks, food and stress. This disease is accompanied by diarrhea with mucus, blood streaks, food particles. Enteritis is also manifested by vomiting with foam. With this disease, the pet refuses fluid and quickly loses weight.
Typically, enteritis affects young dogs. Only timely and correct vaccination can save a pet.
Sources from which the animal can become infected with enteritis
Rodents, dogs - carriers of the virus, insects, infected animals and even humans can become carriers of infectious enteritis. In addition, the pet can become infected with this disease from the liquid or food eaten.
You can get sick with enteritis by contact. To do this, it is enough to lick or sniff the infected thing. Communication with a sick animal can also become a source of infection with enteritis. Items of content - brush, bedding are no exception.
Among other things, the development of the disease can be facilitated by violated or incorrect norms and nutritional composition, unscrupulous care, adverse events. The latter include helminthization, surgery, predisposition to gastrointestinal diseases, change of owner.
The latent state of the virus lasts from four to ten days. If the source of infection with enteritis is liquid or food, then the disease manifests itself in the feces within three to five days. This and other animal secretions can be harmful to other pets.
The acute form of infectious enteritis can lead to the death of the animal. The animal wastes away before our eyes and after 3-6 days it can die. The acute form of enteritis is manifested by heart failure, dehydration, and severe pain. If you do not go to the veterinarian in time, then the probability of death is high.
Treatment is very important as 60 percent of puppies are killed by this disease. Therefore, when the first signs of the disease appear, the animal should be taken to the veterinary clinic and shown to a specialist.
