Eclampsia

Eclampsia is a net metabolic disease that takes place in the females in state of gestation or after the childbirth. Is also known it with the vulgar name of ?fever of milk?. In the dog it is pronounced generally in small races between one and two weeks later to the childbirth and in the cat upon maturity of the gestation or between one and five days of finished this one.

It must to a diminution of the concentration of sérico calcium. It is logical that a numerous litter represents a concerted effort on the capacity of the mother to provide calcium, by interval of the milk that it administers to his puppies for the development of his skeleton, considering, that it are been providing to this element her young throughout the period of gestation.

It is a disease that begins in almost spontaneous form with its clinical sintomatología, the female begins to feel troubles, it is shaken, it shaken, it staggered, one eases up on a side as if it had espasmo, its agitation increases and the saliva wets part of its snout.
The members become rigid per moments, the animalito does not lose the conscience and watches with aid expression.
To this height of the events, masters who never had seen a dog in this situation and know the disease think that he has been intoxicated and in an exasperating state they arrive at the consultation of the veterinarian. Others begin to apply ?homemade? remedies to them (oil with milk) that make worse the picture totally, producing in some cases neumonías by ?false via? (milk with the oil arrives at the lung) with fatal consequences.

The espasmos happen, but they are repeated time and time again, with brief intervals between each attack and if a correct treatment is not applied, the small dog will die of exhaustion or cardiac failure after ten or twelve hours of begun the symptoms.

Once treated the dog, it is necessary to ration the provision of milk to the puppies and if these have more than fifteen days, behavior to the weaning. The puppies do not have by any reason to suck of the dog affected during twenty-four or forty and eight hours later to the attack of eclampsia.

As by a natural process the animalito wants to be with its puppies although its life is in danger, she will treat at all costs that she does not give them to suck, will be very kind to any negligence of her masters to be with her children. A place that we recommended to place the cachorritos is in lavarropas (without unplugged water and) and the small dog in the floor. Thence she will listen to them moan and be calmer than if moves away it of such.

In that time interval that the lechigada one remains without its mother must be fed with a milky substitute, soon one will let them suck during reduced time intervals. If the puppies are the sufficiently great thing like ingesting foods by themselves, is advisable the weaning.

In order to prevent this disease it is necessary to consider the feeding of the mother during the gestation. They are prone to contract them those dogs that only feed themselves with meat. The diet must be composed by several foods: meat, milk, cheese, vegetables, etc. or, a balanced food super premium of high quality for puppies that is indicated for gestantes females by the suplementación of vitamins and minerals that contain.
It is necessary to consider that if the attack is repeated the death risks increase.
Therefore he is advisable after an attack that does not have more young and this can be avoided with sterilization or be taken care of it during the fervor. -

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Author: MV Enrique L. Fernandez De Vanna

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