Parvovirus enteritis symptoms?

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Parvovirus enteritis is an acute highly contagious enteritis in dogs and cats. Parvovirus enteritis caused by feline parvovirus is also called feline infectious enteritis or feline panleukopenia; Canine parvovirus infection is still a common disease in dogs under one year old. The susceptibility of Doberman and Rottweiler was higher than that of other breeds. Disease Branch: dog and cat suffer from diseases. Parvovirus enteritis symptoms? Let's talk about it.

Parvovirus enteritis symptoms?

The main symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea, accompanied by anorexia, depression and rapid dehydration. Feces are yellow or brown, if there is blood, the color will deepen or with blood stripes, serious may appear pull blood.

The animals showed elevated body temperature (39.4-40.6 ℃) and leukopenia (loss due to leukocyte entry into the intestinal cavity). Hypovolemic shock and endotoxic shock can occur within 2 days (7-10 days after infection) after the onset of symptoms.

A tentative diagnosis was made according to the medical history and physical examination results. The best method is to identify parvovirus in animal feces by ELISA. There are diagnostic kits in clinic.

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Symptomatic treatment, the main purpose is through intravenous infusion or plasma to maintain blood volume and swelling pressure, to prevent the occurrence of hypokalemia. They were treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Fast (don't feed any water or food), but recent studies have shown that feeding small amounts of liquid food through a nasogastric tube seems to relieve symptoms. Antidiarrheal drugs containing basic bismuth salts should be given even if the animals have no symptoms of vomiting. There is no evidence that corticosteroids and other anti-inflammatory drugs can help. In the early stage of the disease, it is better to use high immune serum or monoclonal antibody.