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Pathogen ear mange dogs - tick-kozheed Otodectes cynotis. It prides itself on the inner surface of the skin in the ear ear canal. Affects animals at the age of 1,5 to 4-month period. For people, this mite is not dangerous.
Tick this oval cherepahoobraznoy form. Its size 0,2-0,75 mm. Ticks kozheedy are five stages of development. The life cycle depending on the temperature and humidity of 18-25 days. On the body of animals outside of ears mites can survive up to 22 days.

Dogs become infected by direct contact with sick animals, with objects of his care. People can carry ticks on clothing and hands. Hunting dogs may be infected from foxes, ferrets and other predators.

Symptoms. At the beginning of the disease dogs have an itch on the inner surface of the ear and ear canal, they shake their heads, comb ears paws. In the scratching gets microflora, the disease may be complicated by a purulent inflammation of the middle and inner ear.

Treatment. For treatment you can treat your ears phenothiazines. Phenothiazine powder poured into the auditory canal. The interval between treatments - 6-7 days. Course duration - 24-25 days. During this time, as parasites on the body of the animal, and in the external environment completely die, so the location of the infected dogs, and things take care of them can not handle anything.

For treatment otodektoza can also be applied ivermectin (ivomek). It is administered subcutaneously once at a dose of 200-300 mg / kg body weight.

If otodektoz complicated otitis, additionally treats otitis

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This disease is caused by subcutaneous mite Demodex canis. The disease is widespread. Most suffer from the young and weak animals. Demodex mites is a cigar-shaped dimensions 0,18-0,30 mm.

In the external environment at a temperature of 10 -14 ° C mites become inactive. In a moist environment at a temperature of 16-20 ° C mites survive for 2-3 weeks at room temperature and dry air - no more than 1,5-3 days in water at room temperature - up to 9 days.

Tick develops in the hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Under favorable conditions, the development of the mite from egg to mature stage takes about 3 weeks.

Most suffer from short-haired breeds of dogs aged 6 to 12 months.

Symptoms. The disease is clinically occurs in two forms: scaly and pustular. In the form of scaly skin on the head (eyebrows, lips and cheeks), appearing lesions. Usually, this round hairless patches. Affected skin is thickened, folded, often with bleeding cracks. Skin squamous keratinized epithelium. Skin color gradually becomes bluish-gray. If no complications coccal flora, the itch for it.

If the disease is prolonged, it may be affected vast areas of the skin throughout the body. Localized demodicosis is considered, if not more than five skin lesions with a diameter 2,5 cm

Pustular skin lesions are often also found on the head, neck, chest, hind limbs. In the skin bumps are formed, filled with products of inflammation, mites, microbes. Liquid discharge from tubercles zasyhaya forms a gray-brown rind. The skin thickens, going into coarse folds. When complications of disease infection occurs disintegration of dead tissues of skin, accompanied by a fetid odor. With the spread of all the body animals may die from malnutrition or sepsis.

Sometimes the same dog symptoms of both forms of demodicosis.

Diagnosis is based on clinical signs and results of microscopy of material obtained by deep scrapes on the border of the affected and healthy areas.

Treatment. Depending on the number of foci and forms of flow can be used as a topical treatment, and general. You can also combine these two methods.

A good therapeutic effect is treatment yurodeksom - 1 times in 7 days. Common treatment is carried out ivomekom, tsedektinom and dektomaksom. Preparations are entered 1 time in 10 days by subcutaneous injection.

During the treatment should be monitored zutem re microscopy scrapings.