How to tell if your dog has worms

How to tell if your dog has worms:

1. No matter how you eat, you won’t gain weight

If your dog eats normally, or even has a bigger appetite than usual, but no matter how much he eats, he doesn’t gain weight, or even becomes thinner and thinner, then you should pay attention, the dog’s stomach may already be full of worms. Because the worms in the body absorb the nutrients of its food, so the dog will appear to be malnourished after eating so much!

2. Scratching and biting the body

If your dog often scratches and bites its body, and even bites until it loses hair and skin, and it is always like this, it looks extremely itchy, then the dog may be infected with tapeworms, fleas, etc. Dogs infected with this parasite may also exhibit the behavior of rubbing their butts on the ground.

It is best for pet owners to check the dog's body and deworm the dog as soon as possible!

3. Hair loss, dry hair

If your dog has a normal diet, but often loses a lot of hair, and the hair is dry, dull, and there are small red spots on the skin when the hair is pulled apart, or even infected with small red spots, then the dog may have been infected with mites. And it's probably already crawling all over its stomach!

In this case, it is necessary to take orally or inject acaricidal drugs, it is best to cooperate with medicated baths, and anti-inflammatory treatment, and you must pay attention to light diet!

4. There are small black particles on the body

If you find some small black particles on the dog, it is likely to be flea feces, and there may already be a lot of fleas on it. In this case, it must be dewormed in time.

It is best to clean up these small particles on the dog, and keep the household hygiene clean!

5. White gums and eyelids

If you want to know if there are worms in the dog's stomach, you can also look at its gums and eyelids. If the dog’s gums and eyelids are excessively white, then you should pay attention. There may be worms in the dog’s stomach, and there are a lot of them, which has caused it to be anemic!

If the dog has this kind of situation, it means that it is already very serious, and the pet owner should take it to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible!

6. The dog has a long-term cough and shortness of breath

If your dog coughs for a long time and is usually short of breath, then you should pay attention to it. The dog may be infected with heartworm or toxoplasma gondii.

If you are not sure, it is best to take your dog to the hospital for a check.

7. Persistent vomiting and diarrhea

Occasional vomiting and diarrhea in dogs may be due to indigestion in the stomach and other reasons, which is a relatively normal phenomenon. But if the dog has persistent vomiting and diarrhea, it may be infected with worms. This kind of worm is easy to irritate the dog's gastrointestinal tract, causing this situation in the dog!

8. Blood in the stool, worms in the stool

If you want to know whether there are worms in the dog's stomach, there is another obvious phenomenon, that is, if there are live worms in the dog's poop, it means 100% that it has been infected with parasites, and even some dogs' poop There will be blood in the dog, so the pet owner must help it get rid of the insects as soon as possible.