How to Treat Tapeworms in Dogs?

Tapeworms are the longest of the intestinal parasites in dogs, and there are many types of them, which are very harmful to the health of dogs. Can cause canine malnutrition, emaciation, anemia, gastrointestinal symptoms and neurological symptoms, and in severe cases, can lead to general debilitation and death. Tapeworms that can parasitize in dogs.

There are many types of tapeworms parasitized in the small intestine of dogs, not only the adult stage of the health hazards of dogs and cats, and most of its larval stage of other domestic animals (or people) as an intermediate host, seriously endangering the health of domestic animals and humans.

I. Types of tapeworm

The canine tapeworm (canine diphylloid tapeworm, melon tapeworm), the body of the worm is reddish in color, and the length of the worm is 10~50 cm. Mature body segments are 7 millimeters long, 2-3 millimeters wide, and long ovoid. Other common tapeworms include the middle line tapeworm, the vesicular tapeworm, the bean tapeworm, and the multiple tapeworm.

The clinical symptoms of tapeworm disease

1, severe infection presents abnormal appetite (gluttony, heterophilia), vomiting, chronic enteritis, diarrhea, constipation alternately, anemia, lethargy, easy to agitation or mental depression, and in some cases, spasm or paralysis of the limbs.

2. When the worms form a mass, they can block the intestinal tube, leading to acute abdominal diseases such as intestinal obstruction, intussusception, intestinal torsion and intestinal rupture.

3, check the tapeworm nodes; if found in the anus of the sick dog caught in the tapeworm pregnant nodes have not yet landed, as well as feces mixed with short tapeworm nodes, can help to confirm the diagnosis. The tapeworms are white in color, with the smallest tapeworms being like grains of rice, and the largest tapeworms being up to about 9 millimeters long.

Three, tapeworm disease control measures

1, praziquantel, 20 mg / kg body weight, 1 oral, and then once every 5 days.

2, Propylthiobenzimidazole, 10-15 mg/kg body weight, 1 time/day, for 3 days.

3, Tapeworm, 100 mg/kg body weight, 1 oral,

4, Mebendazole, 20 mg/kg body weight, 1 oral.

Four, tapeworm disease prevention and treatment measures

1, therapeutic deworming: betelin hydrobromide, the dosage of 1.5-2 mg / kg body weight, oral. Make the sick dog fast for 12-20 hours and then give the drug. To prevent vomiting, dilute tincture of iodine solution (10 ml of water, two drops of tincture of iodine) should be given 15-20 minutes before the drug is taken. Or use praziquantel at a dosage of 5~10 mg/kg body weight-dose, orally. Or use butanimidamide hydrochloride, the dosage of 25-50 mg / kg body weight, once oral, to expel fine-grained echinococcus tapeworm with 50 mg, and then used once at an interval of 48 hours.

2. Preventive deworming: Preventive deworming should be carried out 4 times a year (once a quarter), and should be carried out in 3-4 weeks before breeding for breeding dogs. Deworming should isolate the dog within a certain range in order to collect the discharged worms and feces and destroy them thoroughly to prevent spreading the pathogen. Spring and fall are the high incidence period.

3, pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene, eliminate the source of infection: proper treatment of slaughter waste, prevent the dog from feeding on the intermediate host with tapeworm larvae or its uncooked organs, keep the kennel and the dog body clean, often kill fleas and lice on the body of the canine with historicide, eliminate rodents.