What should I do if my puppy has a cough? When many dog owners find a puppy coughing, they think the dog is sick and panic and use medication indiscriminately. In fact, there are many reasons for puppy coughing, not necessarily sickness, so you must distinguish the situation and then take measures. Cause Analysis 1. When a puppy is excited or wakes up from a nap, is frightened, or chokes on food, it can cause a cough. Response: This cough is usually short and brief, with no other symptoms, so there is absolutely nothing to worry about. 2. A change in the environment can also cause a puppy to cough. Moving from a warm air environment to a cold air environment, smoke, dust and other fine particles that irritate the respiratory tract, choking odors, chronic disease-causing air environments, etc., can all cause a puppy to cough. If the impact is transient environmental factors, there is usually no continuous long-term coughing, and it is accompanied by a runny nose and tears when it is more strongly stimulated. Response: It will get better and disappear when removed from the harmful environment. 3. If the puppy is living in a harmful environment for a long time (e.g., an environment with excessive formaldehyde), it may have a long-term continuous dry cough, at which time the respiratory tract and lungs may have become diseased. If the puppy is subjected to more intense respiratory irritation, such as concentrated ammonia gas irritation, it is possible to burn the respiratory tract, and in this case it is easy to become inflamed. Response: Take the dog to the vet immediately for treatment. 4. Puppies sometimes eat bones and fish spines, or bite some thorny items, may be foreign objects stuck in the throat or gums, the dog will cough of their own accord, hoping to cough out the spines. In this case, the dog often coughs while scratching its own mouth with its paws, and from time to time barking short and sharp, which is easy to judge. Response: Puppies are generally stuck with thorns and can eventually solve them on their own. If the dog can’t solve it by himself, he must find a veterinarian to pull the thorns to prevent the inflammation of the thorn site. 5. Some poison poisoning can also cause a puppy to cough. In this case, the cough is short and calm, often accompanied by vomiting and white foam, which is not sticky. Response: As long as there is no muscle weakness and mental incompetence, it is usually fine to feed some oral glucose solution or oral inosine solution. 6. Inflammation of the respiratory tract, pneumonia, gastroenteritis and other lesions can also cause puppies to cough. The cough caused by such lesions is often a long-term continuous cough, in some cases a sharp dry cough, eyes and nose with bonded material, diarrhea and vomiting, vomit is sticky, the coat is dull, depression, and loss of appetite. Response: This situation should be treated by a veterinarian early. 7. Puppies are also sometimes prone to fire, resulting in coughing. This condition appears as a dry cough, often with discharge from the corners of the eyes, more bloodshot eyes, dry stools, and no other obvious symptoms. Response: You can buy some snake gall bladder, Chuanbei Loquat or Niuhuang Qinglung San and feed it. 8. Puppies with cold and flu can also lead to coughing, and puppies often have coughing and runny nose or fever symptoms. Response: This situation should be given to the puppy to eat some dog cold medicine in a timely manner. 9. Some dogs will also have a cough in the pre-rabies attack. In this case, the dog will appear to pin the tail, scurrying around, fear of water, barking, foaming, vision is different. Response: Since there is no effective treatment for rabies at this stage, once you encounter such a situation and confirm that it is rabid, put it down immediately to prevent a rabies epidemic. Diagnosis If you do not know what causes your puppy’s cough, you can perform the appropriate tests: 1. Fecal test: You can check for parasitic eggs in the dog’s respiratory tract. 2. X-Ray: This can check the dog for sinus, tracheal and lower respiratory tract disease. 3. Blood cell examination: can initially determine whether the dog appears to be infected. 4. Tracheal endoscopy: can check for foreign bodies and tumors. 5. ECG test: It can check the phenomenon of heart electrical conduction and assist in the diagnosis of heart ultrasound. Prevention to strengthen the usual preventive work, can also effectively reduce the occurrence of coughing dogs: 1. Regular deworming for dogs (internal parasites), generally recommended for dogs under 6 months, dewormed once a month! 2. Regular vaccinations for dogs can effectively prevent infectious diseases that can be contracted between dogs. Note that the dog is sick and coughing, mainly due to poor health, so in the daily feeding process, pet owners should pay attention to the dog’s nutritional supplements and exercise to improve the dog’s immunity.
