Canis prostatitis is inflammation of the prostate caused by bacterial infection. It is divided into acute and chronic. Acute prostatitis also includes suppurative prostatitis and prostate abscess.
This disease is common in adult male dogs. Clinically, it is sometimes complicated by prostate hypertrophy, prostate cysts and prostate cancer.
1. Causes of canine prostatitis:
Dogs suffer from prostatitis, which is often caused by bacterial infection.
2. Key points of diagnosis of dog prostatitis:
a), Acute prostatitis: Acute prostatitis in dogs has obvious characteristics and symptoms:
1. Body temperature rises, depression, and lack of appetite.
2. Being slow due to pain and having a restrained gait. And there are symptoms of constipation and severe postpartum.
3. Palpation of rectum and abdomen can sense prostate hypertrophy and tenderness, prostate abscess has a fluctuating feeling, and semen cannot be collected.
4. Dogs with prostate abscess can be seen with difficulty in urination or urinary cessation.
b), Chronic prostatitis:
1. There are few obvious clinical symptoms in dogs:
2. It is often when the owner first urinates in the morning, or when he finds blood or pus around his lie.
3. Palpation of rectum and abdomen can sense that the volume of the prostate is symmetrical or asymmetrically enlarged, making it painless. Depending on the length of the disease course, its texture ranges from hard to soft to wavy.
4. X-ray and B-ultrasound examination + visible increase in prostate volume. In prostate abscess, localized fluid dark areas can be seen in ultrasound examination.
5. Dog leukocytosis in acute stage. Bacterial culture of exudates and semen can help with diagnosis.
3. Preventive measures for prostatitis in canine:
1. First empty the urine in the bladder, massage the prostate through rectum, collect prostate fluid culture and perform drug sensitivity tests to choose to use antibiotics, and cooperate with symptomatic treatments such as antipyretic analgesia, relieve diarrhea, and catheterization.
2. If the prostate abscess is ineffective by the above method, the pus should be discharged surgically and an external fistula should be performed.
3. Clinical experience has proved that spaying dogs can promote the recovery of prostatitis.