Mastitis in Bitches

Mastitis, also known as breast inflammation, is a condition that not only affects us women at the time we are breastfeeding our children, bitches can also suffer from it and it also infects their puppies that they are feeding.

Mastitis can appear during breastfeeding or also after delivery. Generally the bitch that contracts mastitis, begins to show symptoms such as loss of appetite, decay, sadness, fever, and rapid heart and respiratory rate. Also, it can show digestive disorders like vomiting and diarrhea.

However, in addition to these symptoms, observe some external symptoms in your breasts, since they become very red, hard and edematous. The swelling or tumors that occur are found from the base of the breast to even spread throughout the nearby skin tissue. In some moments abscesses, pus and even degeneration of the breasts can appear that can end up being enmeshed producing the death of the animal if it is not treated as soon as possible.

In the same way, as we all already know the health of our puppies It depends directly on breast milk, so if it contains infections, germs among others, newborns can suffer disorders that can cause weakness and death. In this way, at the moment when our puppies begin to complain, show weakness or suffer digestive and skin disorders, it is important that we check the quality of the skin and seek advice from a veterinarian to take care of both the mother and the puppies.

It is for this reason that in the presence of mastitis It is important that we visit the specialist to prescribe some local anti-inflammatories to calm the pain and decongest the area. If there is an abscess, it is recommended while we can take her to the vet, we put warm and moist compresses on the breasts to promote healing.