Recognizing dog bladder infection symptoms early could not only save you a boat load of money by avoiding seemingly endless veterinary visits, tests and more tests, and medications but could also save your dog's life. It is also important to point out that while dog bladder infection symptoms are generally predictable there is a certain degree of unpredictability involved as well.
What are the most common dog bladder infection symptoms?
A dog bladder infection is also known as cystitis and if you were to do hours of tireless research on dog bladder infection symptoms there would a number of symptoms which are routinely listed. These would include blood in the urine, a low grade fever, relieving themselves in unexpected and inappropriate places, sensitivity to touch in the back hind quarter, straining to urinate, and foul smelling cloudy urine due to the bacteria and blood cells included.
These are pretty standard dog bladder infection symptoms but there may be others. I only say this because my dogs, after becoming infected, showed a couple of others somewhat subtle symptoms just before the major symptoms made it obvious that something was terribly wrong.
These were excessive water consumption and antisocial depressive behavior. Antisocial depressive behavior with my dogs was all about them not wanting to play, go outside, and not showing up at the door when I arrived home for work. Additionally, one of my dogs loves to watch television and he was missing in action when he normally would be front and center.
The excessive water consumption part of the equation was a little bit harder to pin point with much of the water consumption occurring during the night. What I have learned since then is that drinking excessive quantities of water is an animal's natural defense against bacterial bladder infections.
While a topic for another day, you should know that an outbreak of cystitis can be triggered by a number of conditions including urethral infections, diabetes, or increasing age which may be the cause of poor bladder function and/or immune system weakness.
If I notice dog bladder infection symptoms what should I do?
Procrastinating is really not a very good idea due to the possibility that the bacteria engulfing the urinary system will spread upwards to the kidneys.
If diagnosed and treated early generally a full dose of oral antibiotics will wipe it out in a few weeks. Nevertheless, your veterinarian will probably suggest a follow-up urinalysis to insure that the infection has been completely eradicated.
Once cured don't let your guard down
These types of infections recur an astounding 50 percent of the time. For this reason it is especially important to take some preventative steps to minimize the chances of recurrence. These would include regular bathing especially around the backside, daily exercise, regular bathroom breaks, plenty of clean filtered water containing a few drops of cranberry juice, and one of the many widely available herbal or homeopathic urinary tract conditioning supplements.
In conclusion, there is a one in five chance that your pet will exhibit dog bladder infection symptoms at some point in their lives, regardless of what you do. But by knowing what to look for, and how to best minimize the risk of reoccurrence, you will doing your part to keep an unwelcome cystitis surprise from occurring.
What are the most common dog bladder infection symptoms?
A dog bladder infection is also known as cystitis and if you were to do hours of tireless research on dog bladder infection symptoms there would a number of symptoms which are routinely listed. These would include blood in the urine, a low grade fever, relieving themselves in unexpected and inappropriate places, sensitivity to touch in the back hind quarter, straining to urinate, and foul smelling cloudy urine due to the bacteria and blood cells included.
These are pretty standard dog bladder infection symptoms but there may be others. I only say this because my dogs, after becoming infected, showed a couple of others somewhat subtle symptoms just before the major symptoms made it obvious that something was terribly wrong.
These were excessive water consumption and antisocial depressive behavior. Antisocial depressive behavior with my dogs was all about them not wanting to play, go outside, and not showing up at the door when I arrived home for work. Additionally, one of my dogs loves to watch television and he was missing in action when he normally would be front and center.
The excessive water consumption part of the equation was a little bit harder to pin point with much of the water consumption occurring during the night. What I have learned since then is that drinking excessive quantities of water is an animal's natural defense against bacterial bladder infections.
While a topic for another day, you should know that an outbreak of cystitis can be triggered by a number of conditions including urethral infections, diabetes, or increasing age which may be the cause of poor bladder function and/or immune system weakness.
If I notice dog bladder infection symptoms what should I do?
Procrastinating is really not a very good idea due to the possibility that the bacteria engulfing the urinary system will spread upwards to the kidneys.
If diagnosed and treated early generally a full dose of oral antibiotics will wipe it out in a few weeks. Nevertheless, your veterinarian will probably suggest a follow-up urinalysis to insure that the infection has been completely eradicated.
Once cured don't let your guard down
These types of infections recur an astounding 50 percent of the time. For this reason it is especially important to take some preventative steps to minimize the chances of recurrence. These would include regular bathing especially around the backside, daily exercise, regular bathroom breaks, plenty of clean filtered water containing a few drops of cranberry juice, and one of the many widely available herbal or homeopathic urinary tract conditioning supplements.
In conclusion, there is a one in five chance that your pet will exhibit dog bladder infection symptoms at some point in their lives, regardless of what you do. But by knowing what to look for, and how to best minimize the risk of reoccurrence, you will doing your part to keep an unwelcome cystitis surprise from occurring.
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