Common Dog Diseases and Advice

When keeping a dog as a pet in your house, you always want to protect it from various diseases. Do you know the lack of knowledge about pet care creates many opportunities for the common illnesses to attack the health of your dog? Thus, don't miss this article since it will bring some useful pieces of information about such the diseases and methods of the prevention.

Your dog can easily contract some following dangers like Cancer, Arthritis, Allergic Dermatitis, Brain Aging and Behavioral Changes, Dental Disease, Developmental Growth Disorders in Puppies, Diabetes Mellitus, Food Allergy and Food Intolerance, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Heart Disease, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease and many other dangerous diseases.

Here, I am describing risks, symptoms of two of the above diseases (Cancer and Arthritis) and how to keep your dog healthy from them. If neglecting information about these common sicknesses, you may not probably spot illness of your dog soon.

• Firstly, what do you think about cancer? Many people say that Cancer only appears in humans' bodies; in fact, this dangerous condition can also threaten dogs' lives.

1/ Risk factors:

- The older the dogs are, the higher the likelihood of cancer is.

 

• The dogs suffering effects of chemicals like herbicides or pesticides can be attacked by cancer.
• Specific breeds of dogs can contract some kinds of cancer commonly.

2/ Symptoms:

• Fast weight loss
• Abnormal swelling
• Persistent sores
• No appetite
• Bleeding from nose, ears, mouth or anus
• Terrible smell
• Eating difficultly
• Breathing difficultly
• Loss of stamina

3/ Disease prevention:

• Ask for your veterinarian's advice.
• During the treatment, your dog needs to be provided with enough nutrition.
• Its foods must contain more fatty acids, fat and protein since these help to enhance the recovery system.

• Secondly, Arthritis is one of the common sicknesses in dogs. It is relevant to bad changes in joints, which is the result of worn cartilage. As you know, the cartilage plays an important role in protecting bones, so if this part is not good any longer, joints become painful and swollen.

1/ Risk factors:

• Cartilage will gradually degenerate when pets start getting older. Thus, the older the dog is, the higher the risk of suffering arthritis.
• Weight gain is regarded as one of the arthritic causes because it will give joints extra stress.
• Damage and accidents cause certainly terrible results for joints.
• Further, breed, congenital defects and infection are also risky factors of arthritis.

2/ Symptoms:

• Difficult movement (run, walk, and jump).
• Yelp if someone or something touches its pains.

3/ Disease prevention:

• Ask for your veterinarian's advice in order to have timely treatments.
• Balance nutrition for your dog.

To sum up, there are many risks ready to take your pet dog in bad situations. Importantly, you - the owner - must always take care of your lovely pet every day in cooperation with checking more news and information about some of the common diseases of these pets.