Does your dog often rub the floor with his anal wipe? Sometimes licking the anal area and wagging his tail. Does your dog bark in pain when you check his temperature? If so, your dog may have anal adenitis. What are anal glands? The dog’s anal glands, also known as anal sacs, are a pair of pear-shaped symmetrical glands located at the junction of the anal mucosa and the skin, one on each side, with the gland opening equivalent to the four and eight o’clock position. Dogs anal gland secretions are gray or brown greasy, smelly, with the function of lubricating the anus, so that the smooth discharge of feces; another role is the mutual recognition of dogs, when dogs meet, will smell each other’s tails to distinguish. Many first-time dog owners do not know the existence of anal glands, so they do not clean them, and over time, the glands become more and more dirty, they will emit a bad smell. If the gland is not cleaned for a long time, it can lead to anal adenitis, which can be serious and fester. Anal adenitis has now become a common disease in dogs, with a higher incidence in small dogs, manifesting as blockage of the anal gland excretory ducts and accumulation of secretions, causing infection, inflammation, swelling and, in severe cases, anal ectopia. The disease can occur in dogs of all ages, and the onset of the disease is usually from June to October. The main identification methods of anal adenitis: the dog has the phenomenon of rubbing the buttocks, bad spirit performance restlessness, lack of appetite for food, constipation or difficulty in defecation, pulling dry and hard feces; swelling around the anus, local redness and itching, and attempts to chew the anal area. Pus can be squeezed out of the two glandular drainage openings or there is brown, foul-smelling water when wiped with paper, and a foul-smelling fluid is left wherever the buttocks sit, with a particularly unpleasant odor. In severe cases, the anal glands swell and protrude above the surrounding skin, which is hard to the touch and may affect the natural swing of the dog’s hind limbs. In the later stages of septic infection, the entire anus is turned out, followed by neurological symptoms, flaccidity and paralysis of both hind limbs, or paralysis, and dragging of both hind limbs when walking. If a dog is found to have anal adenitis, it should be sent to the hospital for prompt treatment. The treatment method for only the anal gland excretory duct mouth obstruction, you can wear sterile gloves index finger into the anus, thumb outside the anus against the swollen gland gently squeeze, so that the gland excretion emptying. For inflammation of the anal glands, inject 5 ml of canine immunoglobulin subcutaneously, 1 time/day, along with 100~500 ml of sugar saline, 0.5 g of ampicillin (or 2 ml of lincomycin), 2 ml of dexamethasone, 2 ml of ATP-2 ml and 2 ml of inosine, mixed intravenously, 1 time/day, and apply topical Ma Yinglong musk hemorrhoid cream around the anus If the anal gland is swollen and purulent, the pus in the gland should be emptied first, then rinse with saline (or 0.1% KMnO4), and then inject ampicillin 0.5 g (or cefazolin sodium 0.5 g) into the anus, and at the same time push the appropriate amount of erythromycin ointment into the anus, and knead the anus with two fingers to make the medicine fully absorbed, and use the medicine for 3 days. can be recovered. The cleaning steps daily cleaning, pet owners should also regularly deal with the dog’s anal glands, so as not to accumulate too much anal gland fluid, affecting the health of dogs, anal gland extrusion method is as follows. First, squeeze those two small bumps inside the anus when you pinch them like this according to the picture. Only use a gentle squeeze they can flow out. Normal discharge is light yellowish-brown in color, ranging in consistency from watery to pasty, and is accompanied by a foul odor. If there is pus and blood in the discharge, it is infected and should be seen by a doctor as soon as possible. Squeeze when you can pad a piece of paper, or be careful to spray face Oh! This stuff stinks like crazy. Finally, I would like to say to the poop pickers, if you usually give your dog a bath, you may want to try to squeeze your dog’s anal glands on a regular basis, a hundred benefits and no harm. Pay attention to daily health care: every time you give your dog a bath, use your hand to pinch the dog’s anus from the bottom upwards on both sides of the four-point-eight location, if you feel swollen, you will squeeze out the secretions therein with force, every time you clean up like this, you can prevent serious attacks of anal adenitis.
