Methods to prevent hepatitis in dogs:

1. Vaccination is very important to prevent many diseases in dogs. Vaccines can play a very good preventive and therapeutic role. Although it has not yet reached the level of preventing dogs from getting sick, there is no more effective method than vaccination, so if owners want their pets to be healthy, they must pay attention to vaccinations.

2. Regularly clean and disinfect the places where dogs enter and exit and their daily necessities. High temperature sterilization or special disinfectants can be used for disinfection. This is not only necessary for the health of the dog, but also for the health of the owner.

3. Regular health examinations are essential. In daily life, do not feed your dog high-fat foods as this may lead to pancreatitis, which may indirectly affect the liver.

Causes of dog hepatitis:

1. Infectious factors: Commonly caused by various viruses, bacteria and parasitic infections, such as herpes virus, parvovirus Viruses, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pyogenes, Clostridium, fungi, Leptospira infections, Babesia and other parasitic infections. These pathogens invade the liver or their toxins act on liver cells to cause disease.

2. Toxic factors: refers to the poisoning of various toxic substances and chemicals, such as accidental ingestion of mercury, arsenic, aflatoxin, etc., which can cause toxic hepatitis, and food that becomes rotten and moldy Food and toxic decomposition substances from industrial processes can also cause acute hepatitis.

3. Other factors: lack of methionine or choline in food may cause liver necrosis and the possibility of acute hepatitis. Congestive heart failure, portal vein and liver congestion may cause compression of the liver. parenchyma, leading to degeneration and necrosis of liver cells.