How to treat parvovirus? There is still hope for dogs to survive!

Sep 22,2024
5Min

Small reference treatment plan

1. Immune serum: early use can improve the efficacy. If there are multiple pet dogs at home, once one dog is diagnosed with this disease, other dogs should be injected with hyperimmune serum or recovered dog serum immediately. The dosage of hyperimmune serum is 0.5~1 ml/kg body weight, and the dosage of recovered dog serum is 0.5~2 ml/kg body weight, for 3 to 5 days. Hyperimmune serum can be used together with other antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs to improve the immune effect.
2. Rehydration: Sick dogs often die of dehydration, so rehydration is the main measure to treat this disease. The required ingredients and fluid rehydration volume should be determined based on the dog's dehydration degree and general condition. The general intravenous fluid rehydration volume is 60 ml/kg of body weight. It can be divided into intravenous rehydration, oral rehydration and peritoneal rehydration.
3. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory: Various broad-spectrum antibiotics can be used, but do not use them for a long time to prevent imbalance of normal intestinal flora and delay the recovery of intestinal digestive function.
4. Antiemetic: For severe vomiting, 0.3-2 ml of Amor and metoclopramide (metoclopramide) can be injected intramuscularly.
5. Anti-shock: For patients with obvious shock symptoms, 5-15 mg of dexamethasone can be injected intramuscularly.
6. Strengthen care: Pay attention to keeping sick dogs warm. During diarrhea, you should stop feeding high-protein and high-fat feeds such as milk, eggs, and meat, and give easily digestible feeds to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract with alkali to improve the cure rate.

Causes of parvovirus

1. Canine parvovirus is highly resistant to external factors and can survive for 1 hour in an environment of 60°C. The virus is still infectious in an environment that is acidic or alkaline. ; The virus can survive on feces and solid pollutants for months to years; in low-temperature environments, its infectivity can be maintained for a long time. 0.5% formalin, 0.5% peracetic acid, 5% to 6% sodium hypochlorite, etc. can be used as disinfectants for this virus.
2. Sick dogs are the main source of infection of this disease. The feces, urine, vomit and saliva of sick dogs contain the highest toxin content. Sick dogs continue to excrete viruses and infect other healthy dogs. The feces of recovered dogs carry poison for a long time. Therefore, once the disease occurs in a group of dogs, it is extremely difficult to completely eliminate it.

Small preventive measures

1. The prevention of this disease is vaccination, which is usually a six-part vaccine or a seven-part vaccine co-immunization with canine distemper and other infectious diseases;< br />2. The course of this disease is rapid, and the younger the dog, the higher the mortality rate. Early treatment is very important;
3. The course of the disease in dogs with myocarditis is sharp, deteriorating rapidly, and they often die before treatment;
/>4. If dogs with enteritis type can be treated promptly and reasonably, the mortality rate can be significantly reduced. Generally, canine parvovirus hyperimmune serum is used for treatment, and glucose saline is used for rehydration according to the condition. Ribavirin is used to fight viruses, dexamethasone or kanamycin is used to fight secondary infections, and vitamin K is injected intramuscularly.
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