Because my dog eats poop?

I LIVE OF INGESTION OF MATTER FECAL: COPROFAGIA

Majorities
Symptoms and signs
Etiología
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prognosis

Majorities:
Coprofagia implies the lee ingestion, this can happen with the own ones, of other dogs and/or other species (cats).
Naturally, the dog does not find contrariedad in the flavor of lees, nor natural opposition to this conduct that the man takes like unnatural, because coprofagia is considered like a natural behavior in the dog, is important to know that the content of the fecal matter is not all remainder in her we found (and its dog also) an important amount of nutrients surpluses of the fermentation of the heavy intestine, rich in enzymes and semi-digested elements that takes advantage of the dog and complement the feeding of he himself.

Symptoms and signs:
Until everything he was Barbarian here (it served to him) BUT IT IS IMPORTANT to know that the ingestion of fecal matter attends with primary and secondary characteristic symptoms to this strange obsession:

* Halitosis (characteristic fétido breath)
* Poliuria (it tinkles abundant)
* Polidipsia (thirst in excess)
* Fecal matter little formed, soft with esteatorrea (fat presence) and maloliente.
* The affected ones are very skinny, although voracious and they do not get fat
* Gastroenteritis (the inflammation of the stomach and the intestine).

Etiología:
Coprofagia is not bad education nor is disease in itself since it is badly a habit whose origin can be of multiple etiología (causes):

* Nutricionales: The essential lack of nutrients and micronutrients - vitamins and/or minerals induce to the dog towards coprofaga by nutritious deficiencies
* Medical: digestive upheavals of assimilation: exócrina pancreática insufficiency (it is the more frequent medical cause in Ovejero Alemán) and to a lesser extent secondary to hiperadrenocorticismo, administration of exogenous corticoids, intestinal syndrome of malabsorción, intestinal parasitism (coccidiosis), diabetes mellitus, hipertiroidismo, etc.
*Comportamentales: puppies (it itches), adults: stress, boredom, solitude, syndrome of deprivation of its freedom and in the depression by abandonment.

Diagnosis:
Since we have seen to determine as the Veterinary Doctor is the exact cause of each patient will have to make a diagnosis differential.
With the aid of complementary methods, in general it is a coprológico that are a study of the fecal matter of the canine one to detect qualitatively and quantitatively the plans of fats and carbon hydrates, as well as a possible parasitism (in that case it is a coproparasitológico).
Also an analysis of alternative laboratory will be able to be requested to diagnose primary diseases that are related to coprofagia.

Treatment:
The veterinarian will evaluate each case in individual and its underlying cause:

* Comportamental: To improve the conditions of life as far as the hygiene of the place, space, exercise and distractions that can be another young dog and juguetón, once improved its atmosphere of life, can be tried:
* Fast elimination of its lees, before the animal has access to them, to administer a right nutritional prize when defecating to urge that the animal hopes this compensates before eating its lees, to place some aversiva substance on the fecal matter being made it disagreeable to the taste (sharp pepper or other substances)
* Nutricionales: to complement with vitamins and minerals, although does not correct the original pathology.
* Medical: When it is a problem of exócrina pancreática insufficiency will be able to be tried with enzymatic preparing that covers the deficiency with digestive enzymes that suffer these canine ones, the prepared ones consist of sódico Glutamato, Pancreatina, Tripsina, Quimiotripsina and excipiente, in general the majority dust off in the meals.

Prognosis
According to the cause, in general it is possible to be arrived to correct and to revert the picture.

 

Author: MV Adelaida A. Goldman
www.mascotia.com/oncologia

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