1. Disease is the manifestation of disease

During the daily consultation, some pet owners often want to know what medicine they can take to recover after describing a pet’s performance. I think this has a lot to do with the idea that many local doctors are not responsible for the treatment habit and bring to pet owners. If you want to treat the disease well, you need to judge the disease through symptoms and tests, and then use drugs for the disease, not for the disease. What is a disease? What is disease?

Symptoms: A series of abnormal changes in function, metabolism and morphological structure in the body during the disease process cause the patient’s subjective abnormal feelings or some objective pathological changes, which are called symptoms. Some can only be felt subjectively, such as pain, dizziness, etc; Some not only can be felt subjectively, but also can be found by objective examination, such as fever, jaundice, dyspnea, etc; There are also subjective and abnormal feelings, which are found through objective examination, such as mucosal bleeding, abdominal mass, etc; There are also quality changes (insufficient or exceeding) in some life phenomena, such as obesity, emaciation, polyuria, oliguria, etc., which need to be determined through objective evaluation

Disease: The abnormal life activity process caused by the disorder of self-regulation under the action of a certain etiology, and causes a series of metabolic, functional and structural changes, which are manifested as abnormal symptoms, signs and behaviors. Disease is the abnormal life activity process of the body due to the disorder of self-regulation after being damaged by the disease under certain conditions.

In the simplest case of COVID-19 infection, fever, fatigue, and cough are all symptoms. There may be colds, COVID-19, and pneumonia. The latter are diseases, and different diseases correspond to different treatments.

2.Observe and collect symptoms

Correctly aiming at the illness of pets, we should collect the symptoms of pets in all aspects, such as vomiting, diarrhea, depression, loss of appetite, fever, constipation, etc., and then analyze the possible diseases according to the symptoms, narrow the scope of possible diseases, and finally eliminate them through laboratory tests or drugs, especially when the possible diseases will cause death, we must not blindly use drugs to cover up the symptoms, And then missed the good opportunity for early treatment. However, in reality, we often encounter some pet doctors fooling treatment only for symptoms, and pet owners blindly believe that, which leads to slight delay in treatment, serious medication and even aggravation of the disease. The most common condition is vomiting and diarrhea in cats and dogs.

Recently, I met a dog, who was tested positive for parvovirus and coronary artery in the hospital after being picked up 10 days ago. At that time, after 4 days of treatment, I said that the test turned negative and stopped using the drug. Normal small treatment should be used for at least 4-7 days, and then assisted recovery should be about 10 days until complete recovery, so either the previous test is false positive or the subsequent test is false negative. The pet owner fed too much the day before yesterday. At night, the dog vomited undigested dog food, followed by diarrhea and mental weakness. Normal may include overeating, stomach dilation, stomach torsion, and incomplete recurrence after small treatment. At least a small examination and X-ray should be done before going to the hospital to see where the problem is? However, the local hospital gave nutrition injection, antiemetic injection and antidiarrheal injection. After returning home, the symptoms worsened. The dog lay inactive in the nest and did not eat or drink. On the third day, the pet owner bought a small test paper and the test result was small and weak positive.

Because the dog’s symptoms are relatively serious, it is difficult to determine whether the symptoms are caused by this disease by the weak positive test paper alone. It is likely that there are other gastrointestinal diseases overlapping, or the strong infection shows weak positive because of the small amount of virus sampled. Therefore, we suggest that the pet owner can take X-ray in the hospital, eliminate gastrointestinal diseases, and finally lock in small treatment. In the past, the disease has been developing in these days alone, but the disease has not been shown due to drug inhibition, so it is very serious when it is shown now.

3.Do not misuse drugs

It is possible to cause death if the disease is seriously misused only according to the surface symptoms without judging. Most diseases themselves are not serious, but if the wrong medicine is used, it may cause death. Let’s take the dog just now as an example. Suppose that he ate too much dog food, which caused his stomach to expand to a large extent, or that his intestines were blocked by a large amount of things, and intussusception. The surface symptoms were also vomiting, a small amount of diarrhea, not eating or drinking, and he was uncomfortable and unwilling to move. If at this time the doctor took a needle to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis or took a drug like Cisabili, which strongly promoted gastrointestinal peristalsis, gastrointestinal rupture would probably occur, leading to death within a few hours, and it would be too late to send to the hospital for further rescue

If your pet has some uncomfortable symptoms, what you need to do is not to suppress the symptoms, but to understand the disease through symptoms and then targeted treatment. If the hospital doctor is going to give it medicine, you should first ask what is the disease of cats and dogs? What manifestations are consistent with this disease? Is there any other problem? In the real treatment, it is really suspected that there are 2 kinds of 3 diseases with the same symptoms, which can be ruled out by medication, but the possibility must be clearly listed? Prepare in advance according to the serious situation.