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Avoid Tick Bites To Prevent Lyme Disease In Your Dog

Lyme disease, the disease of a thousand faces, is growing to become America's fastest-growing and most misdiagnosed disease.

One of the most satisfying experiences you can have in a lifetime is to own a dog. As a dog owner, there are many acts you can do to minimize risks to your pet.

As the weather is getting nicer, your dog spends more time in the open air and is more susceptible to dangers. Being alert for ticks that spread diseases is important. Tick bites are dangerous to your dog and family's well being. Wooded regions might be unsafe to your pet.

Several veterinarians and pet owners observed lymes disease symptoms in cats, dogs, goats, cattle, sheep, and horses. Hence, keeping away from tick bites and receive treatment on time for Lyme disease in your pet is vital.

Lyme disease is not spread immediately from dogs to humans. But, dogs can serve as a reservoir for the infective organism, Borrelia burgdorferi. Dogs that are infected with Borrelia organisms do develop high numbers of the organism in their blood streams to infect ticks that bite them. So, if a household dog has Lyme disease symptoms, it would seem to increase the risk to the humans in the household, since a tick could become infected by the dog and then attach to a person and pass the infection on.So, it is important to try avoiding tick bites, and checking your dog for ticks.

Lyme disease symptoms may come and go.
Lyme disease symptoms are variant in intensity from mild to severe.
Lyme disease symptoms can mimic countless other conditions.

In many dogs, the lyme disease symptoms will not appear for several months after infection.

Lyme disease symptoms in dogs:

1. Painful joints - dogs are showing lameness symptoms for the first 4 days. The affected limb is getting swollen and causing muscles pains. Due to pains, the dog might refuse to walk up.
2. The fever range is between 103?F - 105?F
3. Dogs who are infected suffer from vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration.
4. Loss of appetite. Your dog may be lethargic, showing tiredness signs
5. Lyme disease tick bites may cause damage to the nervous system, heart, eyes, and kidneys if not treated on time

Find out more of how to protect your pet from Lyme disease symptoms in the Lyme Disease Info Center site.