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Health
When we have with us our pup, we won't have to think only about little darlings and caresses, but to be also responsible of his health. The illnesses and the sanitary dangers are manifold, at times lanthanic, hidden, not to underestimate, therefore we try to avoid to replace us with the veterinarian, so that not to be wrong and to jeopardize the health of our Labrador. The veterinarian is the correct person that will follow our dog in the time, since pup, to begin with the vaccinations, the calls and the possible visits of the case. In their field, there are today, besides the generic ones, also specialized veterinarians in specific sectors as oftmalogia, traumatologia, cardiology, oncology and others. And if you realize something is not good for your dog, following with attention the various phases of the day, when he walks, when he eats, when he sleeps, try to gather that attitudes that could put you in alarm. There are general symptoms to which to pay particular attention: the unwillingness, lack of appetite, refusal to play, demolition, vomit and diarrhea persistent, evident dimagrimento, opaque hair, etc, etc.... The illnesses of the dog are manifold, a lot of of which of infectious origin. Of viral and bacterial origin, they generally strike more organs, are contagious and they often bring immunitaria of the dog to the death, from which he saves only appraising the gravity of the symptoms and from the answer; they can be prejudiced from the vaccinations. The illnesses infestive among the most common is given by the intestinal worms, which cohabit with the dog, depriving him some nourishing elements, strongly weakening him making also him more sensitive to the infectious illnesses. The mycosises are pathologies sustained by mushrooms and mold microscopic; they are contagious for the dog and also for the man, above all his children (tigna). A suitable environmental and cutaneous care of the dog reduces the risks of contagion, that he however is curable. In the forms most common they are manifested with loss of hair in the interested part. The hereditary Illnesses are caused by particular present geniuses in his parents and inherited by the pup. Among the most known there am the displasia of the hip, the illnesses of the eye and the hemophilia. The displasia of the hip is a pathology to load of the articulation coxo/femorale that in the most serious forms it determines limp of the back limbs in more evident way. The cause is to seek him in one altered conformation of the articular joint with consequent usury and erosion of the cartilage. After sometime the degeneration can bring to deformante arthrosis. Even if the genetic origin has been individualized, the mechanism of transmission has not been clarified vet. The study of the heredity results very complex, in it they have involved more geniuses and their effect can be increased by environment conditions of breeding and growth. The displasia manifests him with greater facility in the rapids subjects growth, also for this reason it needs to watch out for the feeding of the pup on the increase, to avoid future damages. The examination radiografico of the back articulations is the only mean accepted for identifying the sick subjects and those carriers of light anomalies today. The radiography must be performs at an experienced veterinarian, with the suppers in total anesthesia, to guarantee a suitable muscular relaxation and therefore a correct positioning dorso/ventrale of the subject.