Dog heatstroke symptoms and first aid methods often have the skills to save a dog’s life

Symptoms of heatstroke in dogs Mild heatstroke can occur: drooling, rapid short panting, restlessness. Solution: Untie the collar and chest strap and lower the ambient temperature. Move the pet to a cool place or give it a fan or air conditioner to cool it down, and then give the right amount of water to recover slowly. Moderate heatstroke will appear breathing difficulties, the pet appears sluggish state. Solution: Wet the pet with ice water or soak it halfway in water. Be careful not to use all ice water when soaking, so that the dog’s body temperature does not drop sharply, generally use the water from the faucet can be, immediately after the emergency treatment to the hospital. Severe heat stroke will result in shock coma, nasal spray and foaming at the mouth. Solution: first wet with ice water or towel wrapped all over the body, you can also use alcohol wipe to cool down, or from the anus into the rectum with cold water, and then sent to the hospital as soon as possible. The hospital must pay attention to the pet’s head down, neck straight, to keep breathing and prevent vomiting. Dog first aid methods physical cooling: 1, so that the dog lying on its side in a ventilated place (please do not compress the heart) with alcohol wipe the head, armpits or crotch; 2, serious cases can be directly with cool water (remind you can not use ice water, ice water will make the skin circulation rate is reduced, thus prolonging the cooling time) shower to the dog’s body, you can also put the dog into a cold water bath to cool down, so that the dog mouth and nose exposed to the water to breathe, so as not to choke. 3, heat stroke is prone to laryngeal edema, you should pay attention to the respiratory condition, and always straighten the dog’s neck to make it breathe smoothly. Give the sick dog oral saline in time to prevent dehydration. 4. Pay attention to the head with sufficient cooling, and raise the feet at rest to increase the blood supply to the brain. If the brain is burned to, it will also become blind and deaf. Cooling at the same time can gently massage the dog’s whole body to help achieve the effect of cooling, and oxygen can be inhaled when available. Pounding the heart area. Stop when the body temperature drops to about 40 degrees.