dog cough
Coughing is a protective reflex action of animals, which can expel the secretions remaining in the respiratory tract from the body, and can also remove the invading foreign bodies to protect the health of animals.
Reason
1 Inflammatory factors Inflammation caused by various infectious or non-infectious factors is the most common cause of cough.
2 Physical and chemical factors inhalation of irritating gas, dust, smoke, allergic substances, and hot and cold air can cause cough; airway compression or traction, such as hilar lymph node enlargement, pleural effusion, etc., can cause cough.
Second, Diagnosis
1 The nature and intensity of cough Dry cough is crisp and short, and is found in chronic laryngitis, chronic bronchitis, tracheal compression, tracheal foreign body, tuberculosis, pleurisy, etc.
2 The frequency of cough can be divided into single cough, continuous cough, spastic cough.
3. The symptoms associated with cough are mainly cough accompanied by a small amount of serous or mucous nasal fluid, suggesting catarrhal inflammation of the nose, throat and bronchus.
4 Auxiliary examination When the dog with long-term cough or systemic symptoms, X-ray examination can be carried out, and a valuable diagnostic basis can often be obtained through visual acuity or filming.
Three, Differential Diagnosis
1 The initial stage of laryngitis is a dry, short and painful cough, which becomes a wet cough after a few days. The cough intensifies when drinking cold water or inhaling cold air in the morning.
2 acute bronchitis with severe paroxysmal cough.
3 Chronic bronchitis cough delays for months or years.
4 Pneumonia Lobular pneumonia often has painful wet cough, and lobar pneumonia has intermittent rough and severe cough before liver degeneration.
In the early stage of pulmonary tuberculosis, there is a dry and short cough, and then the cough worsens.
7 Histoplasmosis In the initial stage of primary pulmonary histoplasmosis, the cough is not obvious.
Necropsy: Lung tissue forms nodules.
8 Canine pneumocystis parasites parasitize in the respiratory tract and paranasal sinuses of dogs.