VACCINATIONS AND PARASITES
PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE
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PARASITES
What are parasites
1.An organism that grows, feeds and shelters on or inside a different organism.
2. They do not contribute anything to the survival of its host.
ENDOPARASITES
These live on the inside of your pet latching on to intestianl walls.
ECTOPARASITES
These live on the outside of your pet.
FLEAS
1.Fleas are masroscopic, this means they can be seen on your pet without a microscope.
2.The adult flea is about 3mm long.
3.Fleas can lay up to a 3000 eggs a day.
TICKS
1.Ticks are blood- sucking parasites that pierce your pwt's skin with their mouthparts and cement themselves into position to prevent easy removal.
2.Ticks often cause skin reaction because of the way they attach to your pet.
3.If a live tick is removed there's a risk of leaving their mouthparts in place-the embedded mouthparts act as a foreign body and can cause a granuloma(benign lump) or an abcess.
4.Ticks are second only to mosquitos in their ability to transmit diseases to humans and animals.
MITES
1.Ear mites live within the ear canal.
2.They often cause a brown waxy discharge and can cause aural haematomas.
3.Animals with large burdens of ear mites may shake their heads.
MANGE
1.Scarcoptes scabiei.
2.Burrowing skin mites.
3.Found in areas of less hair growth such as the faeces.
4.Highly contagious.
5.Zoonotic (which means can be tranmited to humans).
TAPEWORM
1.Have a tape like form
2.Intermediate hosts are the fleasa and the caninie biting louse.
3.Can grow to great lengths.
4.Rice like segments around the anus.
5.Dull coat.
6.Polyphaagis with no appearance of weight gain.
7.Vomiting and Diarrhorea.
ROUNDWORM
1.Puppies are born with them.
2.Toxocara canis pass out eggs as many as 3000 per gram of faeces in a 3 week old puppy.
3.If accidentally ingested by human the larvae can migrate from the intestines and enter a resting state within other tissues.
4.Have been known to rest behind the eye and cause blindness.
5.Symtoms vomiting, diarrhoea and a pot belly.
CORE VACCINATIONS
Distemper.
Hepatitis(canine adenovirus).
Parovirus.
Leptospirosis.
Kennel cough
Rabies.
VACCINATION PROTOCOL
1. First from 8 weeks (DHPL).
2. Second two weeks later (DHPL).
3. Annual boosters for lepotospira.
4. Distemper, hepatitis and parvovirus all boosted every three years.
VACCINE SAFETY
THE POOCH REPORT.
No temporal association was found between vaccination and ill health in dogs-Results demonstrated (>3 months) does not increase signs of ill- health by more than 0.5% and may decrase it by as much as 5%
DISTEMPER
1.Related to measles
2. Affects multiple organs systems.
3. Multiple signs.
4. Usually fatal.
5. Airborne, easy to kill with disinfectants.
6. If caught in early stages maybe cured.
CANINE HEPATITIS
1. Shed in faeces and urine
2. Causes liver disease-swelling,haemorrhage and death.
3. Cross protection between types 1 and 2.
4. Type 1 causes blue eye
CANINE PARVOVIRUS
1. A small, very tough virus transmitted from mouth and faeces.
2. Easily transferred on fomites.
3. First emerged as an epedemic in 1970's.
4.Haemoorhagic, gastroenteritis with no specific treatment.
5. Heart disease in neonatal infections.
LEPTOPIROSIS
1. A bacteria, very weedy and easy to kill.
2. Several strains-zoonotic (Weil's disease).
3.Causes acute, svre kidney and liver failure and death.
4. Jundice, high fever, ina[[etance, weight loss.
5. Organs can be permanenetly damaged even if treated successfully.
KENNEL COUGH
1. Rhino-tracheetis-a doggy head cold.
2. Not usually serious or fatal but causes distress.
3. A variety of possible causes-bacteria, viruses, enviroment.
RABIES
1. Always fatal once signs appear.
2. Zoonotic.
3. Bats are carries.
4. Two cases found in Scotland.
5. Only relevant if going abroad.
6. Spread in every bodily fluid, particularly bites.
7. All warm blooded animals at risk.
CONTRIBUTED BY NIALL AT ORCHARD VETINARY GROUP
