Archive for 'Dog Health Articles'
Bone Cancer in Canines
Osteosarcoma simply known as bone cancer is a disease that treatment and prognosis has improved much in times of recent. Every day veterinarians are improving there methods of treating this form of cancer.
Commonly osteosarcoma occurs only in large-breed dogs that are aged seven years or older. Osteosarcoma may be connected with a formerly healed fracture […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Dogs and Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a situation that can concern any breed of dog but it appears that there is an elevated occurrence in pure breed dogs than those of any size, than in mixed.
One of the main symptoms of epilepsy is seizures. They are categorized as below:
Intracranial epilepsy is caused by occurrence in the brain (e.g. Tumor)
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Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Heart Failure in Dogs
Congestive heart failure (CHF - acronym) is a intricate and somber condition is the heart’s incapability to function usually, ultimately leading to too much preservation of water and salt causing fluid increase in the lungs.
Dogs that have this condition frequently have a heart murmur. Not every single dog that has a heart murmurs will develop […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Dogs and Lyme Disease
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis is one of the most widespread tick-borne diseases in the modern world. It is one of the quickest spreading transmittable diseases in the US.
The first known case in the US was in the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut in 1975. Lyme disease is a bacterial virus. It is […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Fungal Disease (Blastomycosis) In Dogs
Blastomycosis
Blastomycosis is a fungal disease that is caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis spongiform. It happens mainly in humans and dogs. Earth damp with macrobiotic substance is a perfect decaying place for this fungus. Many of these cases have actually been documented in the region of the Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes.
It is more susceptible […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Dogs and Kidney Failure
Chronic renal failure is the major reason for renal failure in dogs. Although the condition gets worse with time there needs to be care for the dog and medication can help your dog feel itself. Chronic renal failure can be there at the beginning, hereditary, obtained, or can be of a mysterious cause.
Early signs that […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Glaucoma in Dogs
Glaucoma in humans usually advances gradually and almost always is trapped early. If dogs are not treated for glaucoma immediately, blindness can occur.
It is difficult to know that there’s anything wrong in dogs. It is usually only noticed by owners when there eyes are actually in bad shape.
Glaucoma is a common reason of blindness in […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Bladder Stones in Dogs
Urinary tract infections are an extremely painful problem for humans and canines. In dogs urinary tract infections can lead to bladder stones, which can both start and help illness in the bladder.
Dogs can get urinary tract infections; cats have a much higher chance of the illness afflicting them
Dogs are more often than not housebroken and […]
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Hypothyroidism in dogs
Hypothyroidism is a disease that afflicts both humans and dogs. However in dogs it usually occurs in middle aged females dogs. Dogs that are prone to it include:
Cocker spaniels
Golden and Labrador retrievers
Dachshunds
Doberman pinscher
The hormone called T4 which is created by the thyroid gland. This has a vital part in monitoring growth and metabolism. Lack of […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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Canine Influenza
Canine influenza also knows as the dog flu is a common that refers to strains of the Influenza virus A that generate influenza in canines and are widespread disease. This is a highly infectious equine influenza virus, with the name of H3N8. It has been involved in the infect Greyhound race dogs that had suffered […]
Posted: October 7th, 2006 under Dog Health Articles.
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