How to Treat Sick Dogs at Home
Dogs, like humans, can get sick and sometimes need supportive care to make them feel more comfortable at home through their sickness. If your dog is recuperating at home, watch for signs of intensifying sickness.
Instructions
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Caring for a Sick Canine
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Watch for intensifying symptoms in your sick dog. Intensifying symptoms could be reason to call your vet for further assistance with canine. Some of these signs could be runny or crusty nose, swelling or redness in the eyes, decrease in appetite, scratching skin and change in water intake are all symptoms to watch for in a sick canine.
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Monitor the dog's consumption of liquids. Dogs, like humans, can get dehydrated. For extra nutrition, pour broth over his food or make a rice and chicken broth mixture to give dog extra nutrition.
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Feed sick dogs smaller amounts of food, especially when they do not feel good. Cook rice, let cool. Then add chicken broth to the rice to give dog extra nutrition.
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Use a vaporizer in the same room as dogs to keep their bronchial tubes moistened.
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Keep sick dog warm and dry. This can be done by simply placing old blankets or sheets for dog to sleep on.
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Wash dog bedding frequently to maintain a clean environment for dog.
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Keep the environment of the animal as peaceful as possible, as this will keeps the animals stress level to a minimum.
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Stack old towels/hand towels near where the dog sleeps, in case of vomiting or diarrhea.
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Refrain from giving the sick dog snacks or foods until dog is improving in health and is successfully eating the nutritious rice and broth mixture.
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For common sickness such as colds, a children's cold medicine can be given to canine as long as the dosage and amount as been approved by your veterinarian.
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Tips & Warnings
Monitor the dog when she is in excellent condition. This will help diagnosing much easier when she is sick.
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Comments
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my dog is a cross breed shih tzu and poodle. he is about 9 mos. old now. he is a very energetic and playful dog. we just let him play in our backyard. he also likes to sleep there, wherever he wants. but now, i noticed that he is not energetic anymore, he lost his appetite, he is vomiting for quite sometime, and his feces has blood on it. I gave him paracetamol. is that okay? I'm worried about him.please do help!
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lilyfyre
Dec 05, 2009
One part of this is wrong. Unless your vet says otherwise you must keep your dog eating. While rice and broth (low-sodium and onion free), or just broth is good for dehydration, real food is still needed. For foods that are healthy for your dog and easy on their stomach: cooked hamburger meat (with the fat drained) and plain white rice is a good mix and can tempt them to eat (many sick dogs will refuse their food). Also plain, skinless chicken can substitute hamburger meat (just remember NO chicken bones) and cottage cheese can be used in place of rice.
