Very often owners address to the veterinary surgeon for the reason that their dog coughs. On purpose to find out the reason of cough a dog it is necessary to survey, that also the diagnosis to define correctly, and treatment to appoint the corresponding. Diagnosing these symptoms, it is necessary to differentiate original causes of the cough connected with respiratory system, for the cough connected with infringements in work of heart.

Let's tell, cough basically such diseases as can cause a laryngitis, a tracheitis, a laringo-pharyngitis, trachea narrowing – a collapse. This all diseases of the top respiratory ways. Can become the reason of cough and the bottom respiratory ways: a sharp or chronic bronchitis, pneumonia.

Diseases of the top respiratory ways.

At a laryngitis and a laringo-pharyngitis cough adjoins to slackness, voice loss. The dog does not wish to eat. These diseases cause various infections and also pressure upon a wall drinks (an alien subject), cold meal, water or snow, pressure of a collar can become the reason mechanical. Long continuous bark, usually can become the originator of it when the dog stays in nursery.

At diseases of a trachea cough dry, attacks. It is accompanied steroid by breath a short wind. These are such illnesses as infectious tracheitises, a traheo-bronchitis caused by parasites (Toxocara canis, Ancylostomum caninum) or viruses, bacteria (Bordetella bronchiseptica). Besides, tracheitises cause mushrooms and mycoplasmas.

The disease of the trachea which have been not connected with an infection, this narrowing of a trachea.

It can be also a trachea collapse, congenital or become by result of a trauma a local stenosis of a trachea, or – if it is a question of English bulldogs or the Boston terriers .

Diseases of the bottom respiratory ways

Acute bronchitis. This illness is accompanied often by a pneumonia. One of signs – strong and damp cough by attacks. Though outwardly state of health of a dog the good. As a rule, such attack appears, when the dog wakes up, inhales a lot of air or swallows collected slime.

Chronic bronchitis. Cough at it dry and without a sound, short. Periodically – allocation from a nose. To therapy it is disease steadily, often the emphysema of lungs brings with itself complications. As a rule, there are such symptoms: tolerance decrease to loadings, mucous and others.

The allergic bronchitis can be sharp or chronic – depending on the reasons which have caused it. The sharp allergic bronchitis can be reaction to medicamentous intervention, a sting of insects. Chronic represents an allergy on components of environment influencing a dog.

It is separately possible to tell about PIE - a syndrome, or lungs that is inherent in dogs with reaction on vegetative, bacterial, or chemical components of substances.

Also in a chronic bronchitis can result hit in bronchial tubes of alien subjects (for example, seeds, cones). These subjects "are not pushed out" even at strong cough from bronchial tubes, and in due course become covered by cages mucous that promotes their "growing".