How to treat postpartum aphrodisiacs in female dogs?

Dog postpartum aphrodisiac is also known as "postpartum ejaculation", "postpartum epilepsy" or "lactation convulsions". This disease is a serious metabolic disease characterized by hypocalcemia and abnormal motor nerve excitation, which causes muscle ankylosing contraction.

Although this disease can occur before delivery, during delivery, or within 6 weeks after delivery, the female dogs have the most cases during 2-4 weeks after delivery.

1. Causes of postpartum aphrodisiacs in female dogs:

This disease is more common in small female dogs with a large number of litters and high lactation. The sharp decrease in blood concentration after childbirth is the direct cause of this disease. Feeding foods with low calcium content and unbalanced nutrition is the cause of this disease.

2. Diagnosis of postpartum aches:

1. The female dog is staggering, drooling, moaning, and unstable in the step. Then the muscles of the whole body are trembling, the neck and legs are straightened, and the whole body is stiff; she cannot get up, her breathing is rapid, her pulse is accelerated, her body temperature rises (above 40℃), her visual mucosa is congested, her eyeballs are rolling upward, and there is often white foam at the corners of the mouth. If not treated in time, she may suffocate and die after 1 to 2 days.

2. The blood calcium concentration drops to 8 mg/100 ml. In severe cases, only 6-7 mg/100 ml or less (the blood calcium concentration of normal female dogs is 9-12 mg/100 ml). 3. Prevention and treatment measures for postpartum aspiration:

1, 10% calcium gluconate 10-30 ml slow intravenous intravenous drip. It is usually repeated once after 24 hours, and severe cases can be repeated 2 to 3 times.

2. For dogs who simply use calcium gluconate, or who have continuous spasms, intravenous injection of pentobarbital sodium 10-20 mg/kg or thiopental sodium 15-18 mg/kg body weight: orally, 0.5 mg/kg prednisolone 0,000 mg/kg, twice a day.

3. Wean the puppies immediately (or try to get them early) and perform artificial breastfeeding. Those who are in difficulty in weaning immediately should also strictly control the amount of milk eaten by the puppies, so as to reduce it one after another until weaning.

4. In the later stage of pregnancy of a female dog, increase the calcium content in the diet during breastfeeding, provide diets containing appropriate amounts of calcium, vitamin D, minerals and energy balance, increase outdoor exercise and more sun exposure, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of this disease. The cured sick dog should pay more attention to prevention before and after the next delivery.