What are the causes of dog bad breath? How should we treat it?
When your dog has bad breath, we first need to understand the causes of dog bad breath.Because bad breath is not a disease, but a symptom.
Baidu Encyclopedia:In the process of disease, a series of abnormalities in the body’s functions, metabolism and structural changes of the patient lead to the patient’s subjective sensation or certain objective pathological changes are called symptoms (symptom).
Simply put:Indicating the physical signs of the disease or bodily sensations, symptoms may be caused by many different diseases.
For example, if one day you suddenly find that your pet walks with one foot crooked, one foot refuses to put down, this is a symptom.
From the symptom, we may judge several reasons:
It may be a scratch on the paw. It may be a ligament tear. It may be a fracture.
Just like the above example, dog bad breath symptom may also have many different causes.
The causes of dog bad breath may include oral and dental diseases, respiratory infections, oral or respiratory system tumors, digestive problems and signals of systemic diseases.
1, Oral and dental diseases
This may include gum disease, periodontal disease (disease of tissues around the teeth), dental problems such as abscesses, oral ulcers, oral infections.
2, Oral tumors
If the dog has oral tumors, these types of tumors can cause infection, leading to foul odor.
3, Respiratory problems
Various diseases of the nose, sinuses, trachea and lungs can cause dogs to have bad breath.
For example, lung cancer, nose tumors, sinus infections and respiratory infections, pneumonia can also cause bad breath.
4, Systemic diseases
Kidney failure or diabetes can lead to bad breath. Kidney function decline may cause some dogs to breathe ammonia smell.
Diabetes ketoacidosis, can also cause dogs’ mouths to have abnormal smells.
5, Picking things to eat
When taking dogs out, dogs may be interested in things on the ground, the previous second was curious about things, and one turn, it picks up things. Some dogs even like to rummage through garbage cans, which can lead to dog bad breath.
6, Digestive or stomach problems
Some dogs with digestive problems may have bad breath. Any problem causing vomiting will cause bad breath. Gastric ulcers, inflammatory gastrointestinal problems or tumors involving the stomach or intestines will cause dogs to have bad breath.
How to improve dog bad breath?
The best way to solve dog bad breath is to go to the pet hospital, find the root cause of the dog’s bad breath, and do the corresponding treatment.
If the examination shows that the dog’s bad breath is caused by gum disease or dental problems, then cleaning teeth and regularly brushing dogs’ teeth are the best choices to eliminate bad breath.
If the dog frequently picks up things on the ground, when taking dogs out, it is necessary to keep the dog on a leash and watch it closely. Once you find that it is about to pick up things, you can pull it over, and you can also do some refusal to eat training.
Do not put food on the ground for the dog, and do not let the dog develop the habit of picking up food from the ground.
Tips to eliminate dog bad breath
If you’ve identified that the dog’s bad breath is not caused by disease, I recommend some small tips to help the dog relieve or eliminate bad breath.
1, Brush your teeth
Buy some toothbrushes and dog-specific toothpaste for the dog, regularly brushing teeth can alleviate and remove plaque.
Because plaque leads to toothache, it is necessary to brush teeth regularly, and if the plaque is serious, it is recommended to take the dog to the pet hospital for dental cleaning.
2, Chew toys
You can buy chew toys suitable for the dog's size, this type of toy can help the dog clean its teeth in a natural way.
Because chewing action can prevent or eliminate plaque and tartar accumulation.
3, Prescription food with oral ingredients
When dogs chew, their teeth enter food, food produces a slight friction on the teeth, provided ‘brushing effect’.
At the same time, the prescription food with oral ingredients contains polyphenols and zinc elements, which can jointly prevent bad breath.
The bad breath in the mouth is mainly caused by volatile sulfur compounds, and zinc elements can react with volatile sulfur compounds to reduce their volatility, thereby eliminating the odor.
Finally, when you find that your dog has bad breath, you must seek the help of a pet doctor, find its root cause, and then treat it symptomatically.
