The Parvo Virus

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What is Parvo?

The Parvovirus is a viral disease in dogs that affects puppies more frequently than adult dogs. Parvo only affects canines. Parvo is attracted to rapidly dividing cells. One place is the intestinal lining in a puppy’s body, this is where parvo grows. Parvo attacks and kills these cells in the intestine causing diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, & depression. Another place of rapidly dividing cells is the white blood cells, in which it suppresses these blood cells and in very young puppies it can infect the heart muscle leading to sudden death.

Rottweilers, Doberman Pinschers, and other black and tan breeds tend to be more prone to parvo than any other dogs but any dog can be affected.

The Symptoms of Parvo

The first signs of Parvo are:

High fever, lethargy, depression, & loss of appetite

And secondary symptoms are:

Vomiting, & bloody diarrhea (can be foul smelling and is sometimes yellow in color)

Preventing and Curing Parvo

Keep your pup inside until at least the 1st 3 shots have been given. Beware of visitors coming over they may have parvo on their clothes from being outside or other places they have been you can spray them with a parvo disinfectant before entering your house. Entirely Pets carries a Parvo Disinfectant called Tomlyn Trifectant Disinfectant that provides control of the canine parvovirus. Also beware of other dogs make sure the strange dog is not sick when meeting your pup.

Parvo can be brought home on your shoes, clothes, hands, car tires. Parvo is infact not an airborne disease it is excreted in the feces of infected dogs, and if someone whether it be human, dog, cat, or bird, etc. steps in it or comes in contact with it, possible contaminating is high. Say for instance a bird picks around in an infected dog feces (which they do) and then flies over into your yard and decides to take a drink out of you dogs water bowl or picks at your dogs food bowl then your dog is at a high risk of that bird leaving the parvovirus in your dogs food bowl. Flies can also carry pravo so getting fly traps is a good idea I recommend a fly trap used for horse stalls. If you suspect you have come in contact with it be sure to use a bleach solution (bleach is about the only cleaner and the cheapest that can kill parvo other than disinfectants that are specific to killing parvo) that is chlorine bleach diluted 1 ounce per quart of water. Parvo can be carried in on your shoes, clothes, hands,& car tires. Any areas thought to be contaminated with parvo should be disinfected.

Curing the dreaded Parvo Virus:

There is now a new medication I have found on the net that actually cures Parvo it is called Parvoguard . It starts working in 10 minutes and improvements in the infected dogs' behavior is seen within hours. Parvoguard is Americas #1 Solution to curing your beloved pet of this horrible virus.