How to treat dog laryngitis

Canine laryngitis is an inflammation of the laryngeal mucosa and submucosa. Clinically, it is characterized by severe cough and swelling, warming and pain in the throat. According to the cause and clinical course, it can be divided into primary and secondary, acute and chronic. Clinically, acute catarrhal laryngitis accounts for the majority and is often complicated by pharyngitis.

Diagnosis of dog laryngitis

1. Primary acute laryngitis in dogs is easy to diagnose based on coughing, increased throat sensitivity and auscultation of stenosis or rales.
2. The larynx is swollen, the head and neck are stretched, and inspiratory breathing is difficult. In severe cases, it may even cause suffocation.
3. Palpate the larynx. Because the laryngeal mucosa is swollen and sensitive, the sick dog is in pain, ducks, shakes its head and stretches its neck.
4. During laryngeal auscultation, dry rales can be heard when the exudate is small and thick. When the exudate is thin, loud bubbling sounds can be heard. When the larynx is severely swollen and highly narrowed, a laryngeal stenosis sound can be heard.
5. Sick dogs sometimes discharge serous, mucus or mucopurulent nasal fluid.
6. In mild laryngitis, systemic symptoms generally do not change significantly.
7. Severe laryngitis, elevated body temperature, increased pulse rate, and difficulty breathing.
8. Chronic laryngitis, long-term fever, dull cough, and hoarse cough. The larynx is slightly sensitive to palpation. Rhinitis and laryngoscopy revealed that the mucosa was hypertrophic, swollen, and granular or nodular.

Causes of canine laryngitis

The causes of canine laryngitis are similar to canine rhinitis.

1. Primary laryngitis is mainly caused by cold, chemical, thermal and mechanical stimulation.

2. Secondary laryngitis is often caused by the spread of inflammation in nearby organs. Laryngitis is often complicated by certain viral or bacterial infectious diseases (such as canine distemper (details), influenza, mycoplasmosis, canine adenovirus, etc.).

Prevention and treatment measures for dog laryngitis

The treatment principles for dog laryngitis are to strengthen care, eliminate inflammation, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

1. Strengthen care: First, eliminate the main reasons, put the sick dog in a warm and ventilated kennel, give soft and easy-to-digest food, and drink plenty of water to reduce irritation to the throat mucosa.

2. Eliminate inflammation: In order to promote the dissipation of inflammation, accelerate the absorption of exudates and relieve pain, you can use 10% hypertonic saline and magnesium sulfate solution to warm the throat, twice a day: apply 10% camphor alcohol, Ichthyostatin ointment and other stimulants, when the nasal fluid is thick, use compound benzoin tincture, 1-2% sodium bicarbonate solution, 2% alum solution, 1-20lo tannic acid solution vapor to inhale. If the inflammation is severe, antibiotics and sulfonamide preparations can be used. Penicillin can also be dripped into the throat cavity.

3. Expelling phlegm and relieving cough: When cough occurs frequently, 0.05g of morphine hydrochloride, 20ml each of almond water and fennel water can be taken orally, one spoonful at a time. or codeine phosphate solutionsolution, 0.2-0.5 ml of 0.50/0 atropine sulfate solution for subcutaneous injection. Because atropine antagonizes acetylcholine, it has a parasympathetic effect, and has an antitussive effect through its antispasmodic effect on bronchial smooth muscle.

4. In case of chronic laryngitis, astringents such as 0.1~0.3% silver nitrate, compound iodine solution and 1% alum solution can be dripped into the throat cavity.

5. If there is a risk of suffocation, the dog’s tracheotomy should be performed immediately.