If my dog got distemper unfortunately, how do we treat distemper?
As distemper is a virus, there is no specific treatment. Distemper invades the cells of the immune system, and so it allows other serious bacterial infections to emerge. These cause life threatening infections, and severely compromise the dog’s immune response against the virus. This is prevented by a course of broad spectrum, highly effective antibiotics.
Since distemper affects so many organs, symptomatic treatment is needed to help the dog to eat, to breathe freely and to eliminate the discharge from the airways. This symptomatic treatment makes the dog more comfortable and helps eliminate the virus. Your puppy should be encouraged to eat, and force fed if necessary. All discharge from the nose and eyes should be cleaned regularly with warm water.
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