How to prevent and treat hydatid disease in dogs

1. Deworm your pet regularly. Give your pet an internal veterinary anthelmintic every three months to get rid of tapeworms.

2. Develop good hygiene habits. Avoid contact with unwormed cats and dogs and their feces, clean up pet feces and treat them harmlessly, wash your hands thoroughly after coming into contact with pet feces, and clean and disinfect the environment regularly. Develop good hygiene habits of washing hands before meals and after using the toilet to prevent diseases from entering through the mouth.

3. Avoid excessively intimate behaviors with pets, such as mouth-to-mouth feeding, kissing, and long-term co-sleeping.

Hydatid disease in dogs should be vigilant against infection

Hydatid disease is an infectious disease, and dogs and other carnivores are the source of infection. Since these animals have Echinococcus tapeworms growing and reproducing in their intestines and can excrete Echinococcus eggs, they naturally become sources of infection.
After dogs and other carnivores eat the visceral tissue containing hydatid cysts in herbivorous animals such as cattle and sheep, the protoscoleces in the hydatid cysts are removed from the upper duodenum under the action of pepsin and bile. The worms are everted inside, and then firmly attached to the intestinal wall with head hooks and suckers. After about 45 days, thousands of sexually mature Echinococcus tapeworms will grow, and then the Echinococcus eggs will be expelled and become the source of infection. role.
As this cycle intensifies, the epidemic of hydatid disease becomes more and more serious, and as a result, the harm caused to humans, cattle and sheep and other herbivores is also increasing.

How to diagnose hydatid disease in dogs

1. Hydatid cyst fluid intradermal test (Casoni test), the positive rate of hepatic hydatid disease can reach 90% to 95%.

2. Complement fixation test, the positive rate of hepatic hydatid disease can reach 70% to 90%. Although this method has little diagnostic value, it is helpful for judging the efficacy. For example, one year after the patient underwent surgery, the complement fixation test was still positive, indicating that hydatid cysts still remained in the body.

3. The indirect hemagglutination test has high specificity, and the positive rate of hepatic hydatid disease can reach 80%.

4. CT examination. CT can directly display the size, location and characteristics of the cyst. It should be pointed out that when a hydatid cyst is suspected, diagnostic puncture is strictly prohibited to avoid leakage of cyst fluid. Once the diagnosis of hepatic hydatid cyst is confirmed, other parts of the body should be checked for the presence of hydatid cysts, and special attention should be paid to the presence of diseased lesions in the lungs.