Laringotraqueítis

It is a disease produced by several virus that interacts together, also appear in this pathology bacteria but like opportunistic infectantes by sensitivity that produce the virus to other secondary infections.

As in all viral disease specific medicines do not exist and medical to stop to the secondary infections produced by bacteria. According to the virus which they are acting will be the course of the disease, a fast answer and to the 3 or 4 days can exist to disappear the pathology, or it is possible to be prolonged of 3 to 4 weeks, everything depends on the cycle of the virus that is acting then.

The disease is characterized to appear, generally, in the autumn and principle of the winter and affects adult dogs, exists a dry cough that increases during the night or when the animal makes exercise.

In almost all the cases there is a predisposition in those animals that suffer of abrupt changes of temperature, sleep during the night in a warm place and to the affluent morning early they leave to the outside to make its necessities, also in those animals that live hacinados and others are infected an a, for that reason the flame vulgarly ?cough of the perreras?.

This disease although is not serious, unless the dog does not have vaccines against moquillo and it is complicated with he himself, in the case of being vaccinated does not exist the risk, but the disease is enough annoying because it produces a dry and persistent cough, that is disagreeable for the dog and the proprietor.

It is necessary to have a little patience if the cough persists and to leave passes the cycle of the viral disease and aid with medicines so that it does not advance the secondary infection to bacteria, to consider that, sometimes, the process extends until more of a month, but the disease is not mortal, as long as it is not complicated with moquillo.

By all this, always it is recommended once the animal has recovered of the disease, to vaccinate against moquillo and to worm in the case that it does not have vaccines or have been overcome, that that will help to raise the defenses of the animal and to avoid the appearance of another disease. -

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Author: MV Enrique L. Fernandez De Vanna

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