Boy mastitis, also known as "mastitis", refers to the inflammatory process of one or more breast areas of a dog. According to the course of the disease, this disease can be divided into two types: acute and chronic: according to the presence or absence of clinical symptoms, it can be divided into clinical and implicit types.
1. Causes of mastitis in female dogs:
Often due to trauma of female dogs (injured by mechanical factors such as dog biting or friction, squeezing, etc.), certain pathogens invade the breasts through trauma and become infected.
2. Diagnosis of mastitis in female dogs:
1. Acute mastitis: Systemic symptoms such as fever, depression, loss of appetite, and lying down may occur. The affected area is congested, swollen, hardened, warm and painful, swollen lymph nodes on the breast, poor milk excretion, or reduced lactation and stop breastfeeding. The milk of colostrum is thin, and the milk becomes pus-like during suppurative mastitis, containing yellow flocs or blood.
2. Chronic mastitis: Systemic symptoms are not obvious, one or more breast areas become hard, and water-like secretions can be squeezed out when the pressure is strong.
3. Vesicle mastitis: It occurs frequently in elderly dogs, and the breasts become hard, and palpation can make you feel hyperplasia. Laboratory tests showed that the total number of white blood cells increased.
3. Prevention and treatment of mastitis in female dogs:
If mastitis occurs in female dogs, the earlier the treatment, the better the effect. If it turns to chronic, it is easy to lose the ability to lactation even if it is cured.
1. Once the female dog is found to have symptoms of mastitis, she should be isolated immediately, clean the breasts and squeeze out the milk, squeeze once every 2 to 3 hours during the day, and once every 6 hours at night to reduce breast pressure and relieve pain.
2. Antibiotic nipple injection is effective. After the female dog squeezes out the milk, a milk duct should be used to inject blue and streptomycin into the breast, 1 to 2 times a day. After injecting, pinch the nipples with both fingers and gently rub the breasts to make the liquid spread as much as possible. Milk should be kept clean before each injection.
3. In the acute stage of inflammation, local cold compress can be applied. In the chronic phase, local heat compress can be applied.