犬の口臭は改善すべし - Dogs Need Improve Bad Breath
突然ですが、愛犬の口臭大丈夫ですか?ペットの口臭が気になった事がある飼い主さんなら、何とか口臭対策グッズでその臭いを消そうと試みた事があるんでは無いでしょうか?
しかし、犬の口臭も私達人間と同様に、健康維持には正しいケアが欠かせません。口臭グッズでたとえ臭いを抑えられたとしても、その臭いの元となっている原因そのものを解決出来なければ、愛犬の口腔内の症状は悪化の一途を辿るのみ。口臭がカットされ、飼い主としては嬉しいのですが、口腔内の異常のサインそのものを消してしまうこととなれば、本来必要な治療を無視する事になり兼ねませんので要注意なのです。
そもそも健康な犬の場合には不快な口臭はないと言われており、口臭が臭う場合は健康障害の前兆、あるいはすでに何かしらの病気の症状の一つであるという事を、飼い主なら知らなければなりません。
飼い主が犬の口臭を軽視してしまう原因として、目に見えない症状であり、健康状態に変化もなく、愛犬の不快な口臭による反応もない為に、ついつい見落としがちに。又、定期的な歯科診断とスケーリングなど、専門的なケアの費用を節約したいというのも本音のところ、口臭の軽視に起因しているんでは無いかと思います。しかし、もしも病気の症状が悪化すれば大ががりな治療となり、愛犬にも飼い主にもより大きな負担が掛かるかと思われますので、こういった軽視されやすい口臭チェックは油断ができません。
うちのナオミは歯磨きガムをちょっとさぼると、口臭が気になり、口の中を確認すると犬歯と前、後臼歯に歯石が溜まっているので、見つけるとスケーラーで少しずつ取り除けるまで毎日繰り返しやってます。こびり付いた頑固な歯石はなかなか取り除けないですし、歯茎付近はスケーラーで引っかくと危ないので、その日一回で取ろうとしない事がポイントになっています。嫌がるところを無理やりやっても、次回から怖がって口を開けてくれなくなるといけないので、おやつをあげながら短時間ずつやる事で怖がらせずに出来ているので、今後挑戦される方はご参考までに。
犬の口臭の主な原因
犬の口臭の原因の90%以上は、口腔内の異常であると言われています。主な原因としては、歯石、歯周病、歯肉炎、虫歯、口内炎、乳歯遺残症などが挙げられており、重度となれば特別な治療も必要となるので、早期発見する事で愛犬の症状も治療費も軽減されるので、飼い主にとっては重要な事。私達、飼い主の『犬の口臭は自然なもの』という間違った判断となれば、症状は悪化していく一方となり、愛犬の健康を脅かすことにもなり兼ねません。口臭を一つの健康バロメーターとし、毎日の口内チェック、そして日々出来る予防対策、例えば愛犬と相性の良い歯磨きガムなどはとても有効かと思いますので、事前の対策として心がけることをお勧めします。
口内に症状が見られないけど口臭がある場合
獣医さん曰く、上記で挙げた主な原因のように、口の中を観察することで異常が発見できる口腔内の異常の他にも、腎臓や肝臓が正常に働かず、体外に排泄されるべき物質が体内に溜まることで、独特の臭い、アンモニア臭がするといった事もあるんだそうです。又、腸閉塞などの理由によっても、腸の内容物が動かず、その匂いが口臭として上がってくる事もあるそうですので、口腔内に何も異常が無い状態で口臭が気になる際には、早めに病院で検査、治療をするようにして下さいね。
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Dogs Need Improve Bad Breath
First of all, does your dog has bad breath? If you've ever been concerned about your dog's bad breath, I imagine that most of the owners had attempted to try out some products like bad breath controls for it.
However, dogs need right treatments for bad breath just like humans. Even if the odor is reduced by some of the breath fresheners or dental formulas, the oral symptoms in dogs will only worsen if the fundamental causes of the bad breath can not be solved. We, owners would be happy if the bad breath cut off, but owners should be very careful with it, because if we erase the signs of the oral abnormalities in dogs, we would be able to easily ignore treatments that our dogs are practically need.
In the first place, it is said that a healthy dog has no bad breath, and if it has, the owner must know that it is a sign of health disorder or one of the symptom of some illness what the dog already has.
The cause that most of the owners disregard bad breath in dogs is what invisible symptoms, there are no change in the health conditions, and there are no reactions of dogs due to the bad breath, so it is easy to overlook it. And also, we, owners may prefer to save the costs of professional cares, such as regular dental diagnosis and scaling for dogs, therefore owners are due to disregard of dog's bad breath probably. However, if the symptoms of the diseases worsen in dogs, it would need special treatments for them and would be more burdensome for both dogs and the owners, so owners should not miss out dog's bad breath and must not be ignorant of dog's bad breath which is actually help to understand what is going on and prevent the worst case.
My dog, Naomi apparently gets bad breath when she skipped her dental treats for a while, so when I find her having bad breath, I always check in her mouth and can see tartar developed on fangs and molars as result, so I attempt using a scaler everyday to remove the tartar off gradually until I finish removing it completely. It is not easy to remove stubborn tartar that is stuck on the teeth, and it is really dangerous to scratch around the gums with a scaler, so removing tartar at one time in a day is not a good idea as my point. If you forcibly do scaling when your dog refuse to do it, your dog could be scared and would not open its mouth next time, so giving a snack little by little and do scaling for a short time are the point which you could avoid your dog does not be scared, so this is just a reference to the owners who would challeng it in the future.
Main Causes Of Bad Breath In Dogs
It is said that more than 90% of oral abnormalities cause bad breath in dogs. The main causes are tartar, periodontal disease, gingivitis, cavities, stomatitis, residual deciduous teeth, etc, and there will be special treatments needed if the symptoms have gotten worst, so it is important that owners have early detection of these causes on their dogs, because it should help dogs reduce symptoms and reduce the costs for the treatments. If owners make a wrong decision that is "dogs have bad breath naturally", the symptoms of their dogs will only get worse and may jeopardize dog's health. I assume that bad breath is one of the health barometer, so daily oral check and daily precautionary measure, such as dental treats when it is suitable with each dogs are very effective, so I recommend owners these simple things as daily routine for a prior countermeasure of dog's health.
No Symptoms In The Mouth But Having Bad Breath
According to a veterinarian, there is an other reason which can be caused bad breath other than the main causes that can detect by observing the abnormality in a mouth listed above. It is said that when a kidney and liver do not work properly, and substances that should have been collected were accumulated and couldn't excrete outside of the body causes a unique odor like an ammonia smell. In addition, it is said that if there is an intestinal obstruction, the contents of the intestine may not move, therefore the odor can be come up as bad breath, so if you don't see any problem in a mouth and having bad breath on your dog please see a vet to take an examine and get an early treatment if necessary.














