Key points of diagnosis and treatment of kennel cough

Key points for the diagnosis of kennel cough:

1. Diagnose based on medical history and typical clinical symptoms. Whether you have been in contact with a sick dog recently, and whether there is a cough like retching.

2. Do bronchoscopy, it can be seen that the bronchial mucosa of the sick dog is congested, brittle, thickened, and a large amount of secretions and excretions in the bronchus. Take the tracheal cleaning fluid and throat disease materials to separate, cultivate and identify pathogens.

3. X-ray inspection. In dogs with severe mixed infection, X-ray examination shows thickening of the lesion's lung markings.

4. Pathological examination. Sick dogs will be found to have tracheal inflammatory exudation and increased mucus secretion, and nasal cavity, larynx, and tracheal mucosa are swollen, congested, and inflamed. Pathological sections showed massive hyperplasia and hypertrophy of mucous glands in the submucosa, increased goblet cells in the mucosal epithelium, mucus plugs formed in small and bronchioles, acinar atrophy, and pus cells in the bronchial lumen.

5. Agglutination experiment. Blood samples were collected from sick dogs, and the blood samples were placed in agglutination plates, then serum containing specific antibodies was added, and observed in an electrolyte environment. After a period of time, the serum will agglutinate the red blood cells into a mass visible to the naked eye, indicating that agglutination has occurred, and at this time the diagnosis of kennel cough can be confirmed.

Treatment for kennel cough:

1. Antiviral treatment can be completed by taking orally or injecting antiviral drugs. The common oral solution is Banlangen Granules, and the injection drugs are usually Qingkailing Injection and so on.

2. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory treatment, commonly used Azitaineng injection, ampicillin, kanamycin and dexamethasone, etc., at the same time use sterile normal saline plus gentamicin for inhalation nebulization treatment.

3. Antitussive treatment. A very obvious feature of kennel cough is cough. For cough relief, antitussives and bronchodilators are used. At the same time, acute branch syrup or carbocisteine ​​can be taken orally. Some dogs may develop asthma. For this symptom, aminophylline is usually injected intramuscularly.

4. The treatment of kennel cough pays attention to formulating a treatment plan according to the symptoms, so once it is found that the dog may be sick, it must be sent to the doctor for treatment, and do not try it lightly.