Disease In Dogs Post-Flood.

The floods that hit most parts of Greater Jakarta have started to recede but not to make you fall asleep as post-flood disease stalking your pet dog.

Leptospirosis disease
Dogs can be infected with leptospirosis through urine / rat urine that contaminate food or beverages. In the early stages of this disease is difficult to recognize, since only marked fever, lethargy and other signs that are not clear. Usually at the time of the flood, the water is also buried rat nests underground. This causes the rats come fled to higher ground.

prevention:
• Clean the area around the dogs and maintenance supplies dogs with antiseptic liquid sold in the market.
• Provide routine vaccination leptospirosis. This vaccine should also be given even if your area is not affected by flooding due to Leptospirosis disease is also targeting dogs that are kept outside the house.
treatment:
• Please visit the vet for treatment, with antibiotics. Medication in the early stages can usually cure but if it is severe it will be difficult to cure because the virus can also damage the kidneys, liver, and brain.

parvovirus disease
Parvo is a viral infectious disease that is quite common in dogs. The disease is caused by Canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV 2). The virus is common in young dogs, that at the age of 6 -16 weeks, but older dogs can also be infected, although rare. The disease usually strikes when the immune system was weak.
Symptoms of Parvo most specific disease are vomiting and bloody diarrhea that occur repeatedly. Other symptoms include lethargy, not eating, and fever. If vomiting and diarrhea continue, the dog will become dehydrated and lose weight Without appropriate mitigation, the puppy usually does not survive. Parvo Virus Diagnosis can be done by looking at his clinical symptoms, or the more modern is to use diagnostic kit Parvo with a sample of dirt / dog feces.

prevention:
• Provision of complete and balanced nutrition in dogs so that the dogs stamina.
• Vaccination should be repeated regularly and if your local area a lot of dogs infected with this virus.
Further information on this disease, click here.

Pneumonia / Lung Inflammation
Pneumococcal disease is common in dogs puppies age when the weather is cold and windy. In normal weather conditions, it is usually because the disease attacks of puppies sleeping on a cold or wet floors.
Dog's nose will remove fluid and shortness of breath is usually accompanied by a cough.

prevention:
• Provide a place / warm bedding.
• If there is a morning sun dried or dog should be invited to play so strong breathing.
• Provision of complete and balanced nutrition in dogs so that the dogs stamina.
treatment:
• Please visit the vet for treatment with antibiotics.
• Avoid cold air.
• Give a multivitamin that increases the body's resistance.
• Drying the morning when the sun is hot.

skin disease
Skin diseases often attack dogs during the rainy season and especially during the flood because the dog hair condition becomes damp and wet. At the time of the flood, the water soaked body of a dog is a lot of dirty water containing water fleas or other bacteria that can make the dog's skin becomes itchy. Dogs will often scratch so that the skin becomes injured. When the skin is injured, the infection will occur that aggravate the skin condition.

prevention:
• Bathe your dog with a medicated shampoo or the like so that the water fleas and other bacteria can be removed from the dog's skin.
• Keep your dog's skin and fur condition always in dry conditions.
• If the weather is always overcast dog's fur should be sown so that conditions remain dry powder.
• Use an antiseptic liquid to clean the dog's body in order to avoid dogs skin fungal growth.
treatment:
• It is recommended to visit the vet to be examined cause pain or itching skin in order to get proper treatment.

Bottom line, always keep the immune system by giving the dog a complete and balanced nutrition for the body to be able to give the dog at the time of seedling disease resistance began to enter the body.