Bladder stones in dogs can stimulate the urinary tract mucosa and cause damage to the urethral mucosa, so it will cause hematuria, pain, frequent urination of sick dogs. If not treated in time, the stones will completely block the urinary tract if t...
Bladder stones in dogs can stimulate the urinary tract mucosa and cause damage to the urethral mucosa, so it will cause hematuria, pain, frequent urination of sick dogs. If not treated in time, the stones will completely block the urinary tract if they continue for a long time. So how can we determine if a dog suffers from bladder stones? What are the symptoms of bladder stones in dogs and how to treat them?
Methods for judging bladder stones in dogs
Bladder stones in dogs can stimulate the urinary tract mucosa and cause damage to the urethral mucosa, so it will cause hematuria, pain, frequent urination of sick dogs. If not treated in time, the stones will completely block the urinary tract if they continue for a long time. So how can we determine if a dog suffers from bladder stones?
can be diagnosed by urine test and X-ray, and pay attention to distinguishing urinary rocks, urinary tract tumors, polyps, blood clots and urogenital abnormalities caused by urinary tract infection. Symptoms related to stones are not specific to urinary lithologies. There are many ways to estimate urinary lithologic composition, such as naked eye observation, crystal urine, radiographic imaging and quantitative analysis of stones. Quantitative analysis of stones provides authoritative diagnostic information.
After the diagnosis of a pet having bladder stones, most of the stones in the bladder are already very large or many! At this time, the best time for conservative therapy is lost. If there are severe urethral obstruction, surgery will be performed on the same day to remove the stones.
Clinical symptoms of bladder stones in dogs
When the bladder stones are formed, the stones in the dog's bladder will move to the ureter, which can cause ureteral blockage and can also discharge a small amount of stones in the urine. Due to the irritation of stones, it is easy to cause damage to the urinary tract mucosa, causing symptoms such as inflammation and bleeding.
Bladder urethral stones in male dogs often occur at the same time. The main symptoms are difficulty in urinating, frequent urination, and hematuria. A small amount of urine may be excreted in the early stage and may not be excreted in the future. Fine sand-like stones may be touched at the foreskin. As the condition develops, the affected dog develops abdominal distension, and touches the abdomen and can feel the bladder full and enlarged. Due to Ding urinary poisoning, dogs show symptoms such as excessive drinking and vomiting. Eventually, death will occur due to complications of bladder rupture. Most female dogs have only bladder stones, which are manifested as frequent urination, turbid urine, sticky or cellulosic flocs, or bloodshot in the urine excreted, which is severely hematuria. Some people show painful reactions when urinating, with less urine and more frequent urination. Some urinate small particles or fine sandy stones can be excreted. If the stones are large and the amount is large, stand under Baoding and press the upper part of the abdominal cavity with both hands and the front of the hip nodule to the hard and full bladder with slightly motility.
Treatment principles for dog bladder stones
If dog bladder stones are not observed carefully, it will be difficult to detect in the early stage, so it is very important to pay more attention to observing dogs in daily life. If your dog has reached the point where surgery is needed, then as a master, you must pay attention to some precautions before and after surgery.
When the male canine urethra cannot be turned on, first incision the urethra and export urine. Based on the detection of the catheter and external palpation by hand, the urethral obstruction can be felt. After determining the obstruction site, the ventral skin of the foreskin is shaved and disinfected. Hold the penis bone in your left hand and lift the foreskin and penis to make the skin tense and stretch. Make a 2-4 cm incision between the back of the penis bone and the midline of the Yin Jun, incite the skin, separate the subcutaneous tissue and reveal the penis contractile muscles and move it to the side, incite the urethral cavernosum, and use a catheter to indicate the urethral stones. Make a longitudinal incision of the urethra at the stone and carefully remove the stone from the incision with a blunt curling spoon. Then push the catheter forward until it enters the bladder. At this time, try to export the urine in the bladder to facilitate cystectomy. After ensuring urethra is clear, flush the incision and suture the urethra with intestinal thread. Skin silk thread nodules sutured.
The skin incision is made with a finger width parallel to the penis on the foreskin side. After the skin is incised, pull the edge of the incision foreskin sideways to expose the white lines of the abdominal wall. When the abdominal wall is incised with the white line, you should pay attention to avoid damaging the blood vessels and bladder of the abdominal wall. After exposing the bladder, hold the base of the bladder with one or two fingers, carefully turn the bladder outside the wound, so that the back of the bladder is facing upward, then use gauze to isolate the bladder, and use your fingers to check for cystitis and thickening of the bladder wall. Make all the mouths from the small part of the dorsal veins on the bladder, and follow the direction of the smooth muscle. When you put your fingers into the incision, you can usually find that there will be stones of different sizes on the neck of the bladder. You can use a small spoon and bladder flushing method to eliminate the stone residue as much as possible. If the fine stones cannot be completely removed, the backwash method can be used to discharge the stones. The method is: after inserting the catheter from the urethra through the penis bone, it is quickly injected with ampicillin-wet saline added with multiple force and flushing against the urethra until the stone is completely backflushed into the bladder and is discharged through the Viacuum incision. After the intravesical stones were eliminated and cleaned, the closed bladder incision was carried out using bilayer continuous inversion suture. In order to prevent sutures from being exposed to the bladder and becoming a cause of stone formation, the first layer is Kuxing suture, and the bladder wall smear muscle layer is used for horizontal mattress-type suture; the second layer is used for Lumbert suture, and the bladder wall smear muscle layer is used for continuous varus-type suture, and the suture is made of absorbable sheep intestinal thread. After the bladder is retracted into the abdominal cavity, the abdominal cavity is routinely closed. Male dogs keep catheters for 5 to 7 days.
