Medical Information Links
Medical Information Links
This page has links on medical information you may need for your foster dog.
Health Information - Our own web site section
of Boxer Health Issues
Cotton
Ball Remedy For Eaten Glass
Dog
First Aid - Bleeding, Breathing difficulties, Burns,
Collapsing, Convulsions, Eyeball Injuries, Shock, Heatstroke.
Giardia
- The original source of an outbreak may be cysts in
contaminated water or the environment. In addition, infected dogs which may be
either carriers (ie: show no clinical signs but continue to harbor infection and
pass cysts into the environment) or dogs that have diarrhea associated with
infection may act as the source. Surveys have shown that about 14% of the adult
dog population and over 30% of dogs under one year of age were infected. Once
passed, the cysts can survive in cold water for several months.
The cysts are infective as soon as they are passed, unlike other parasites where a lag period is necessary before the organism is infective. The most common route of infection is feces-oral. For example, dogs may accidentally eat cysts as they lick around the environment or lick other dogs' coats (particularly if the other dog has diarrhea). Another major source of infection in human cases is drinking contaminated water. Once eaten, the cyst breaks open in the animals' intestine and releases two new trophozoites to initiate infection. If a dog is left in a dirty environment it may act as its own source of further infections it eats cysts passed in its own feces.
http://www.priory.com/vet/giardia.htm
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex736?opendocument
