The most common diseases in dogs and cats

Diseases caused by fleas

🇧🇷 DAAP
Allergy caused by flea saliva. In allergic animals, just one bite is enough to cause itchiness, irritation and hair loss. There is no cure: it is necessary to exterminate the fleas and protect the animal with the medicine indicated by the veterinarian.

🇧🇷 verminosis
Dogs and cats usually ingest fleas when they scratch themselves with their teeth, contaminating themselves with a worm that causes diarrhea, colic and an itchy anus. The treatment is done with vermifuge.

🇧🇷 gecko disease
It is caused by a parasite and is transmitted to cats that bite or eat infected geckos. It can cause damage to the gallbladder, liver, pancreas, intestine and lungs. The cat loses its appetite, vomits, has diarrhea and becomes listless, drowsy. It is treated with vermifuge.

Diseases caused by ticks

🇧🇷 ehrlichiosis

What it is: infection caused by a bacteria that lodges in cells.

Contagion: tick and contaminated blood transfusions.

Risks: liver and spleen enlargement, platelet destruction, and death.

Symptoms: slimming, weakness and sometimes fever. As the infection progresses there is bleeding from the skin, ears, nose and urine, difficulty breathing and neurological disturbances.

Treatment: with antibiotics.

How to avoid it: keep the dog protected with an acaricide applied to the skin (recommended by the veterinarian) and exterminate ticks in the backyard (they hide in bushes, dry trees and crevices in walls and walls).

🇧🇷 babesiosis

What it is: caused by protozoa, it destroys red blood cells.

Contagion: contaminated tick.

Risks: anemia, kidney failure and nervous disorders. It can kill.

Symptoms: pale mucous membranes, lack of appetite, discouragement.

Treatment: with antibiotics, vitamins and other medications prescribed by the veterinarian.

How to avoid: the same indications for the prevention of ehrlichiosis apply.