If the dog has urinary calculi, how should it be treated? Can you talk about it?

Treatment of urinary calculi in dogs: Treatment depends on the location and type of calculi. Drug therapy and surgery are the most common methods. When severe obstruction requires surgical treatment or the dog has severe dysuria.

What is dog urinary calculus?

Any stone deposited in the dog's urinary system, such as kidney, ureter or bladder, is called urinary calculi.

The urinary system consists of kidney, ureter, bladder and urethra. The kidney looks like a broad bean, located above the dog's waist and near the back. All kinds of urine transport: the kidneys make urine, and then the urine is transported to the bladder through the ureter. The bladder can store urine to a certain amount and then excrete it through the urethra.

Etiology of canine urinary calculi

Several common dog stones are calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate, cystine, magnesium ammonium phosphate and uric acid stones. The cause of each stone is different.

1. Calcium oxalate: Generally speaking, it can be divided into four reasons. Too much calcium ion in urine, too much oxalate in urine, too much citrate in urine, and lack of crystal inhibin. There are factors that inhibit the formation of crystals in normal urine, which can reduce the formation of crystals and stones in urine.

2. Calcium phosphate: such as hyperthyroidism, abnormal renal filtration function, excessive vitamin D intake, nephritis, etc. , may have led to the emergence of this stone.

3. Cystine: There is a low concentration of cystine in normal blood. Cystine is soluble in alkaline urine, but insoluble in acidic urine.

4. Magnesium ammonium phosphate: It can be divided into infectious causes and non-infectious causes. When urinary tract infection occurs, magnesium ammonium phosphate is easily produced in urine through various chemical mechanisms, while non-infectious diseases are caused by abnormal diet or metabolism, which leads to such stones.

5. Uric acid salt: Normal human body can convert uric acid into allantoin. However, if the concentration of uric acid in blood or feces is too high and the body cannot be completely transformed, it is easy to produce urate. In addition, if the dog suffers from congenital hepatic vascular shunt, it is also prone to such stones due to poor liver function.

Clinical symptoms of urinary calculi in dogs

1. The clinical symptoms are different according to the location of urinary calculi in dogs. Some will have urine dripping, prolonged urination, hematuria and urinary incontinence.

2. Long-term urinary excretion disorder will further lead to vomiting, loss of appetite and decreased activity in dogs.

Diagnostic methods of urinary calculi in dogs

1. Detailed red blood cell examination, urine examination, urine residue examination, urinary tract X-ray examination and ultrasonic examination are common examination methods;

2. Further examination includes intravenous pyelography. The collected stones or stones in urine residue can be analyzed in the laboratory to understand the composition.

Treatment of urinary calculi in dogs

1. Treatment depends on the location and type of stones. Drug therapy and surgery are the most common methods.

2. Before seeing a doctor, we should know the possible types of stones through urine residue detection, and then decide the choice of drugs.

3. When dogs have severe obstruction or dysuria, surgery is usually used.

Postoperative treatment conditions

1. postoperative stone analysis is more important, because it is an important basis for choosing follow-up treatment. According to the analysis of the types of stones, we can know all kinds of prevention and treatment methods according to their causes. If your dog has stones, the real cause is unknown, and the recurrence rate of stones is quite high.

2. In addition, if the compound feed is used without stone analysis, it will often cause serious consequences. Therefore, before choosing compound feed, the basis of choice is the result of stone analysis.