Occasionally, our pet dogs feel particularly uncomfortable. If your dog catches a cold, you may notice that it doesn’t eat or drink and loses its spirit. These are typical symptoms of a dog's cold.
Here are some ways to help improve your dog’s immunity, relieve symptoms and promote recovery.
The first thing to be clear is that unlike humans, dog colds are not caused by viruses. It is often caused by some bacteria or other pathogens. Symptoms of a dog's cold include coughing, sneezing, sore throat, congestion and runny nose. To help your dog overcome colds, here are some suggestions:
1. Keep your dog's diet
It is common for dogs not to want to eat when they have a cold. But you need to make sure your dog has enough nutritional intake to fight the disease. You can try grinding some food to make it easier to bite and swallow. If your dog doesn't want to eat dog food, you can cook it with chicken, rice and vegetables.
2. Hydrate your dog
In addition to food, we need to make sure that the dog has enough water to keep the body hydrated. If the dog is reluctant to drink water, you can try adding a small amount of chicken stock or salt water to the drinking water. Checking the room for humidity is sufficient, which is also important to keep your dog's respiratory tract moist.
3. Help dogs cool down
When we catch a cold, we usually have a fever. Similarly, fever is also a symptom for dogs. To cool the dog down, you can try gently wiping the surface of the dog's body with a wet towel. Be careful not to use something too cold on your dog's body as this can damage your dog's skin.
4. The best preventive measure to improve dog immunity
is to improve dog immunity. In addition to paying attention to the cleaning of the dog's mouth and nose, we can also try to add some natural supplements when feeding dogs on a daily basis, such as probiotics, vitamin C, propolis, etc. These supplements can effectively improve dog immunity.
In short, when your dog catches a cold, we need to pay attention to its diet, nutrition, moisture, humidity, body temperature and immunity. Although providing help is the best thing we can do, please take it to the pet hospital for examination and treatment if the symptoms continue.