How to treat and prevent giardiasis?

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Giardiasis is a protozoan disease caused by Giardia lamblia, which is mainly transmitted by the digestive tract. It mainly has diarrhea, watery stool, stench, less mucus in feces, abdominal distension, nausea and other symptoms. How to treat and prevent giardiasis?

How to treat and prevent giardiasis?

Giardiasis is a common disease of pet dogs, accompanied by diarrhea and other symptoms, generally caused by giardiasis virus. In recent years, with the rise of pet breeding and the development of market and economy, the pet dog market is active, and the number of pet dogs is gradually increasing. Giardia is mainly infected by the virus through the drinking water and food of dogs, thus entering into the digestive tract infection. If the puppies are not treated in time, the disease may worsen, resulting in serious diarrhea and even bloody stool, In the process of clinical diagnosis, the prevalence of giardiasis is very high, which is characterized by sudden weight loss and accompanied by acute, chronic or intermittent diarrhea. The cyst of giardiasis enters the digestive tract in the process of dog diet, The oocysts of Giardia can also be found in the feces of dogs infected with Giardia.

The clinical symptoms of mixed infection of giardiasis are weight loss, no obvious change of body temperature, diarrhea, loss of appetite, obvious filth around the anus, depression, loose stool outflow from time to time, serious fishy smell in feces, feces will be stained on the anus, Fecal color is dim or dark brown, sometimes accompanied by blood and other symptoms.

The key to prevent giardiasis is to strengthen the management of dietary hygiene conditions of dogs. When breeding dogs, it is necessary to clean up the indoor feces in time, keep the dog defecation area clean and tidy, disinfect the breeding environment frequently, cut off the transmission route of Giardia, prevent the pollution of drinking water and food for dogs, and keep pet toys and other facilities clean. The cysts of Giardia are sensitive to dry and high temperature environment. If the host's body is wet and cold, the oocysts of Giardia can survive for several months under this condition. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the feeding ground dry and clean to reduce the infection rate of canine giardiasis. During the breeding period, the dogs should be checked regularly, so as to discover the disease behavior of the sick dogs in time, find and treat Giardia disease early, and cut off the transmission source of Giardia disease.

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Giardiasis is one of the most common parasitic diseases in dogs. After the disease, young dogs often cause diarrhea, abdominal pain and indigestion. Adult dogs have almost no clinical symptoms and are easy to be ignored. Therefore, it has become an important way of transmission of giardiasis. If giardiasis is not treated in time, it may seriously threaten the life of dogs. Therefore, it is necessary to discover and treat it in time, increase immune protection and prevent the outbreak of other malignant diseases. Because the symptoms of giardiasis are similar to many parasitic diseases clinically, it is difficult to diagnose. Therefore, in the process of breeding dogs, it is necessary to actively check the dogs regularly, timely reflect and cooperate with treatment, control the development of the disease to the maximum extent, and cut off the source of transmission fundamentally. So far, metronidazole can effectively treat giardiasis, But it is not 100% effective, so the most important thing to control the development of the disease is to prevent dogs.