The dog owner can always understand when his four-legged friend wants to play with him or is hungry. But how to understand that a pet is sick or something is bothering him? After all, when a dog becomes infected with worms, the symptoms may not be noticeable.
Infection methods
Animals become infected with worms mainly in one way - by licking objects, drinking water and eating foods that are infected. Worm eggs are everywhere: on a pad, on the grass, on the sole of shoes and in feces that animals like to sniff.
The dog runs the risk of contracting helminths at any time, it is especially likely to “catch” internal parasites in the summer, it is during the warm season that their eggs are everywhere. Even fleas are carriers of worms. In addition, an animal can become infected with worms while still in the womb. Therefore, worm pills for dogs are so necessary.
Infection with roundworms occurs by the ingestion of objects or food contaminated with the feces of an animal affected by the disease. Ribbon worms enter the dog's body by eating meat products that are affected by the embryos of these parasites.
Of course, it is impossible to completely protect the pet from contact with potentially dangerous objects, but you can reduce the likelihood of infection. If you do not feed the river raw fish to the dog and do not allow it to eat garbage and drink water from the puddles, the chances of the pet becoming infected with worms are significantly reduced. For prevention, it is better to give pills for worms for dogs.
Signs of Worms
There are some symptoms by which it can be understood that the dog needs urgent deworming:
- The animal "rides" on the pope.
- Hiccups after eating.
- Difficulty swallowing.
- Dermatitis or other skin diseases.
- Lack of appetite for no apparent reason.
- Unstable chair.
- Vomiting
- Increased appetite for weight loss.
- General condition worsening.
With a strong infection with worms in the feces of a dog, you can see the "joints" of living or dead individuals or worm eggs. Sometimes with severe invasion, the animal vomits with worms.
Treatment and prevention
Treating a dog for worms comes down to taking certain medications. If the condition of the animal is serious, you should be extremely careful.
With severe illness, the intestines may be clogged with helminths. If the dog alone cannot get rid of them, it needs to be given an enema or a laxative to help cleanse the body.
There is one more unpleasant moment. Some types of worms are straightened before death. For a little puppy, this is deadly. In the intestines, dead parasites become like needles, which leads to bleeding and the dog dies. If there are a lot of worms, they are woven into a ball, which overlaps the intestines, clogging it. In this case, you need the help of a veterinarian. In other cases, help anti-worm tablets for dogs.
How to give drugs
It is very important that the dog is healthy during the run. First of all, they treat a pet from fleas, since they are carriers of worms. After that, they are treated for parasites. Only healthy dogs are given antihistamines from dog worms. Before vaccination, the animal should not have fleas and helminths.
2-3 days before the use of the anthelmintic drug, the Homovit remedy is injected into the withers of the dog. Tablets are given a few hours before meals, another 5 hours later - Enterosgel. In order not to ruin the liver, it is better to give petroleum jelly, rather than sunflower. After the above procedures give a probiotic. The run is repeated after two weeks. It should be remembered that worm pills for dogs are very important for the health of the animal itself. Instructions for taking the drug will help the pet owner.
Worm Prevention
In order not to endanger the dog, regular preventive measures should be taken. Today, pharmacology offers many drugs with a wide spectrum of action, working against different types of parasites. They are available in different dosage forms - suspensions and tablets. It is imperative to comply with the dosage, which depends on the weight of the dog. Remedies for worms are given with a small amount of food. You can fully feed your pet after 2 hours.
Tablets from worms for dogs can be divided into groups:
- Drugs that are administered orally. This includes powders, suspensions, and tablets.
- Injectable remedies.
- Drops at the withers.
The most popular tablets for worms for dogs are “Pratel”, “Alben”, “Kanikvantel”, “Drontal”, “Dirofen” and “Envire”. But if you analyze each drug, then they all have their minuses and pluses, so when choosing you should be guided by the physiological characteristics of the dog’s body and the type of parasite with which it is infected. They produce drugs in the form of tablets or suspensions so that the owner of the dog can choose the most convenient option for his pet. It is very important that the animal eats pills. Pharmacists worried about this, releasing preparations with the taste and smell of meat products.
Side effects
Anthelmintic preparations can contain not only the active component, the action of which is directed against a certain type of parasite, but also other active substances that have a complex effect on helminths. Very often animals become infected with several types of worms. In this case, it is better to choose tablets that act on all types of helminths and their developmental stages. It is necessary to carefully study the instructions for the drugs, since some of them can be toxic and lead to poisoning of the dog's body.
In addition, worm tablets for dogs can cause side effects due to overdose, individual intolerance and the use of fake drugs . If you feel unwell after taking the tablets, you should give your dog an absorbent. If the animal begins vomiting, muscle tremors, lethargy, diarrhea or shortness of breath, it is urgent to consult a veterinarian. But with the right dosage, anthelmintic drugs do not cause side effects.
Pratel tablets
The Pratel preparation contains two active substances: pyrantelaembonate and praziquantel. The action of the first active component is based on the excitation of neurotransmitters in roundworms, which leads to death. After the first dose, parasites are excreted through the intestines. The drug should be given to the animal 3-4 times a year for prevention. The second substance is quick to act, tape parasites die immediately. The interaction of the active component with proteins and phospholipids begins from the first seconds of the contact of the worms with the drug. In the tapeworm, the outer cover is paralyzed, which causes death. Tablets from worms for dogs "Pratel" round in shape with a cross-shaped notch of light yellow color. It is not recommended to give tablets to pregnant and sick animals, as well as to use the drug with medicines containing piperazine.
The drug "Drontal"
Tablets from worms for dogs "Drontal Plus" have an anthelmintic effect on round and tapeworms. The mechanism of action of the drug is based on damage to muscle tissue and the membrane, as well as inhibition of parasite enzymes, which leads to the death of the helminth. This drug has low toxicity, does not possess embryotoxic, sensitizing and teratogenic properties in warm-blooded animals. Drontal Plus tablets are intended for therapeutic and prophylactic deworming of dogs with cestoses and nematodoses. The drug is administered to the dog at the rate of 0.66 g (1 tablet) per 10 kg of its mass with a small amount of food in the morning feeding.
The drug "Caniquantel Plus"
These tablets are administered orally with food for mixed animal helminthiases caused by flat and roundworms. Since infection with parasites in puppies can occur from three weeks from birth, tablets from worms for dogs "Kanikvantel Plus" should begin to be given no earlier than this age. When infected with roundworms, a single application is not enough for complete deworming. This is especially true for young dogs. To reduce the risk of infection in people who are in close contact with the animal, it is necessary to repeat the procedure after 2-3 weeks. The drug is contraindicated in pregnant dogs.
The drug "Alben S"
With the help of this drug, the treatment and prevention of a number of diseases is carried out: dipyldiosis, diphyllobothriosis, toxocariasis and others. Tablets from worms for dogs "Alben C" contain such an active substance as albendazole, which acts as a destroyer of microtubular function and disrupts carbohydrate metabolism of helminths. This mechanism of action of the drug leads to the death and elimination of worms from the body of the animal. Tablets are active against sexually mature and immature trematodes, nematodes and cestodes.
The drug is administered orally once during morning feeding with a small amount of food. Enter it at the rate of 0.66 g per 5 kg of dog weight. In addition, two weeks before vaccination also give these tablets from dog worms. Prior to vaccination, a preliminary fasting diet or the use of a laxative are not required.
It is not recommended to give the drug to pregnant and lactating dogs. Pills "Alben S" are well tolerated by animals, if you follow the instructions for their use. Also, they do not have hepatotoxic, embryotoxic and teratogenic properties.
The drug "Dirofen"
Tablets from worms for dogs "Dirofen" have anthelmintic action at all stages of development of tapeworms and roundworms. Fenbendazole and pyrantel pamoate, which are part of the drug, destroy microtubular function, paralyze muscle tissue and disrupt the carbohydrate metabolism of helminths, which leads to their death and contribute to the excretion of the animal from the body. Means "Dirofen" is prescribed not only for treatment, but also for the prevention of
worms in dogs. It is not recommended to use the drug for exhausted and sick animals, puppies who are under the age of three weeks, and pregnant dogs.
It is necessary to give a tablet to the animal in the morning feeding with a small amount of food. If the dog refuses to take it, the tablet is placed on the root of the tongue or injected with a syringe in the form of a suspension. For preventive purposes, it is advisable to repeat the procedure after 3 months.
Envir tablets
This drug has a wide range of actions for cestodes, nematodes, trichurosis and ascariasis. It is not recommended to use tablets from worms for dogs "Envire" simultaneously with piperazine, as well as pregnant and weak dogs. Deworming is carried out every 3-4 months in the morning feeding with a small amount of food. A dose is given at the rate of 1 tablet per 6-10 kg of animal weight. Overdosing can lead to diarrhea and vomiting of the dog, cause ataxia and loss of appetite.
Is it possible to prevent infection with worms from a dog
A helminth-infected pet is a danger to the whole family. The fact is that the pet has parasitic worms in common with humans - helminthiases. Therefore, both adults and children can become infected with tape worms and round worms. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to regularly prevent the animal using the above drugs. For people in the pharmaceutical market, there are also many prophylactic medications.
Helminth Prevention Scheme
In order to reduce the risk of infection with worms, it is necessary:
- Keep the dog clean, feed benign food and do not allow the feces of humans and animals to be eaten.
- Fight fleas and grubs.
- Treat adult animals every three months.
- Two weeks before mating, worm a dog.
- Deworming puppies from three weeks of age and before vaccination.
- Give the dog a wide spectrum of drugs, periodically alternating them.
If the animal is already infected with helminths, he should be given pills for worms for dogs. Side effects do not occur if you follow the specified instructions.
How often to worm a dog
An anthelmintic drug is a toxic agent that affects not only parasites, but also the body of an animal. Therefore, it is very important to observe the dosage. If you treat an infected dog once a month, it is impossible to completely destroy all the worms. This is proved by the fact that puppies are born infected with helminths in a proglistogonennogo dog by all the rules. This means that helminths are always present in animals. Therefore, it makes no sense to "poison" the dog with drugs in the hope that she will not have worms at all. But here it is possible to reduce them to a minimum number without harming the animal. Do not forget that certain types of worms are affected by certain drugs.
It is advisable to use tablets with a wide spectrum of action before viscous and vaccination. In other cases, it is better to take tests for an accurate diagnosis. If worms are present, then it is necessary to find out which ones, and only according to the results of the tests, drugs for deworming should be bought.
The treatment of worms in an animal should be carried out under the strict supervision of a veterinarian, since intoxication of his body can be very difficult. If the owner treats the dog on his own, but according to the recommendations of a specialist, it is necessary to monitor the well-being of the animal.
It should be remembered that prevention should not be neglected, since worms are dangerous not only for animals, but also for all households. If there are children in the house where the dog lives, you must be doubly alert and for any violation of the usual behavior of the animal or malaise, you should consult a doctor.