By gaining as much information as possible about your dog's heart, you and your veterinary surgeon will be in the best position to recognise
early symptoms of heart disease should they occur.
Not exact matches
The most common
symptoms of Lyme
disease — named for Lyme, Connecticut, where the
earliest cases were discovered and eventually connected to tick bites — can include muscle and joint pain, flu - like
symptoms,
heart palpitations, and often a red, circular rash, which may resemble a «bull's - eye.»
It seldom causes
symptoms in the
early stages, but over time, untreated hypothyroidism can cause a number
of health problems, such as obesity, joint pain, infertility and
heart disease.
Unfortunately, with the lack
of early symptoms, by the time dogs are diagnosed with heartworm
disease, it is usually well - developed and will require two to three injections
of an arsenic - based product (called Immiticide) to kill the adult worms in the blood vessels
of the
heart.
Early detection
of diseases that often have no initial visible
symptoms — such as diabetes,
heart disease, endocrine
disease, and cancer — result in faster treatment and better overall health for your pet.
Symptoms In the
early stages
of heart disease, your dog's body is able to make adjustments that allow her to cope with the
disease.
Early in the
disease, there are often no clinical
symptoms, but the weakened pumping capacity
of the
heart can eventually lead to congestive
heart failure.
Dogs in the
early stages
of heartworm infection may show no
symptoms, but eventually they can exhibit signs such as tiring easily, loss
of weight, breathing problems, and eventually liver
disease and
heart failure.
Not only can
symptoms be distressing, AUD can trigger a cascade
of lifelong adverse outcomes, such as: other mental disorders, suicide, serious unintentional injury, illicit drug use, antisocial behaviour, as well as
early onset
of heart disease, stroke and cancer.3 While the peak age for the onset for AUD is 18 — 24 years, the factors that predict the transition from alcohol use to AUD
symptom onset and from
symptom onset to diagnosable AUD remain largely unknown.