Just after you got home from work, your husky came all the way to pounce on you and put its big tongue against your face. When the dog opened its big head, you discovered that the dog had bad breath, but it was too late. Don’t feel too upset! So we should always pay attention to the health of dogs, love and care for them. Then let’s learn about the causes of bad breath in dogs and how to prevent it, so that this embarrassing heartache will no longer continue!

Causes of bad breath in dogs:

Bad breath is one of the symptoms of periodontal disease, and gingivitis is an early symptom of periodontal disease. In fact, early gingivitis has already begun to cause bad breath problems. However, in addition to oral problems such as periodontal disease and gingivitis, bad breath can also be caused by gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory diseases or other systemic diseases. But no matter which cause, the oral cavity has the greatest impact. Because even if there are other causes of bad breath than the oral cavity, brushing your teeth or scraping your tongue every day can help reduce bad breath. On the contrary, bad breath caused by gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory diseases, etc. will also be made worse by the relationship between tartar and periodontal disease. Therefore, oral hygiene has the closest and most direct relationship with bad breath.

Prevention and treatment of bad breath in dogs:

Understand the real cause of your dog’s bad breath so that you can prescribe the right treatment. If it is due to poor digestion, you can give your dog a kind of digestive yeast (lactobacilli tablets), which can help the dog's gastrointestinal digestion by accelerating intestinal peristalsis and lactic acid bacteria to decompose incompletely digested food. For problems caused by poor gastrointestinal digestion, you can use green tea (one green tea bag soaked in 500ml of water, soak for 5-8 minutes and then discard the tea bag, drink up to two times a week) as a dog Daily drinking water can also help improve bad breath.

Another problem is tartar cleaning. Dental problems can be divided into two types. One is bad breath caused by the accumulation of tartar and dental bacteria caused by the inability of deciduous teeth to fall out when the deciduous teeth are replaced by permanent teeth. The other is bad breath caused by the fact that the permanent teeth have grown in, but because parents do not regularly Give your dog teeth cleaning to cause bad breath.

The former is a problem caused by the permanent rear molars and the front canines that have not fallen out. Because the molars have not fallen out, it is easy to leave residue when chewing dog food, which can cause tooth decay in the deciduous molars, and the permanent molars have not yet been born (due to calcium supplementation, the deciduous teeth are therefore not easy to fall off), at this time, in addition to regular oral cleaning, you can go to the supermarket to buy a human mouthwash, choose a light mint flavor, dip it on a dog-specific toothbrush, and gently clean the dog's back molars and Brushing the front canine teeth removes tartar and sterilizes the bacteria at the same time, and prevents the permanent teeth from attracting seedlings in the fish pond! Tooth decay will continue.

You can also buy cowhide bone dog chews or an imported Greeies teething stick (or a deodorizing biscuit) and give them to your dog to chew, which will help the dog to change teeth faster. As for the front canine teeth and deciduous teeth, there is no need to rush. to remove, try to play more tug-of-war games with the dog, which will also speed up the time for the dog to lose its canine teeth, and the latter’s permanent teeth have been fixed. Parents must clean the dog’s teeth at least once a week. Of course, you can use the methods mentioned above In addition, you can also use dog-specific tooth cleaners (including toothpaste and tooth cleaning spray). It is up to the parents to decide on their own.

Another point to note is that when giving teeth cleaning bones to dogs, you should not just leave the teeth cleaning bones to the dog to bite. This is a misconception. If it is a deodorant biscuit or a small cowhide dog bites The glue can be chewed by the dog on its own, but when feeding the dental bone to the dog, parents should ask the parents to hold it and feed the dog, and allow the dog's incisors and left and right rear molars to bite the dental bone interchangeably, so that the dog can Only by cleaning the teeth can you make the best use of it. Otherwise, the dog may bite the teeth in three or two bites in less than 5 minutes (bite less and swallow more). In this way, the teeth cleaner is actually a teeth cleaner. These are just dog treats.

​Warm reminder:

If you have followed the above steps to remove bad breath in your dog but have no effect, parents need to consider carefully observing whether the dog is infected with oral malodor caused by leptospirosis.