Can a dog cure a person? Useful and medicinal properties of a dog

Signs of the disease

Many hunters tend to think that a dog is a very hardy and disease-resistant animal and it cannot get sick like this, but this is a misconception. A hunter, just like a person, can catch a cold, get poisoned, catch an infectious disease, get hurt in the forest, etc. Therefore, it is very important to monitor your pet in order to notice the disease in time and provide timely assistance that will not allow it to start.

Signs of the disease

First of all, malaise is manifested in behavior - depression, a lot of lying, impaired appetite and in appearance - the coat is dull, disheveled, the mucous membranes of the eyelids and oral cavity are pale, bluish or icteric. Disruption of the gastrointestinal tract - vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, also indicates that the dog needs your help.

In this situation, it is immediately necessary to conduct a thorough examination: measure body temperature, pulse and respiration and, if possible, seek help from a specialist. But in order to use the information received correctly, you should know what these indicators should be in a healthy dog, so you need to practice in advance when your dog is in order.

Before examining and carrying out any manipulations, do not forget to put on a muzzle or fix the dog's mouth with a bandage

What needs to be measured

Body temperature

To do this, we take a veterinary thermometer or an ordinary medical one. Shake it, grease the end with Vaseline, baby cream or other oil. Then, firmly holding the pet by the collar, we put it on its side and, raising the tail with our hand, carefully insert the thermometer into the anus by 1.5-2 cm. It is better to have an assistant for fixing. The thermometer is kept for at least 3 minutes.

In a healthy adult dog, body temperature is - 37.5-39.2 degrees, in puppies up to 6 months old - 38-39.5.

Pulse

Normally, the heart rate reaches 70-120 beats per minute, but this figure can fluctuate depending on size and physical activity. A dog's pulse can be determined by pressing the palm of the hand against the chest on the left side, just below the shoulder blade, or along the femoral artery that runs along the inner leg.
You don't need to press your fingers too hard, otherwise you might not feel anything. Usually, the pulse is calculated over 20 seconds, and this figure is multiplied by 3.

Breath

Respiratory rate (number of breaths and breaths) is normally 14-28 per minute. This figure is higher in puppies, pregnant and lactating bitches - 30-40 per minute. It also increases with active physical activity, with an increase in temperature and humidity. The frequency is determined visually by the movement of the wings of the nose or by the movement of the chest and abdomen; this can also be done by placing a palm on the chest.

If your pet is really sick and needs help, then once again we remind you that it is better to trust a specialist. In cases where this is impossible or the situation requires urgent intervention, then we provide first aid ourselves.

How to give medicine

Solid medicines

Powders, dragees, tablets can be given with a small amount of feed. It is better to put the medicine in a treat, that is, in a piece of minced meat, meat, fish. If the dog refuses to eat or the medicine has a bitter taste, pungent smell, we give it forcibly. To do this, open the dog's mouth and as far as possible (using tweezers) put the medicine on the root of the tongue, close the mouth. The dog makes a swallowing motion and swallows it.

It is better to blow powders with a tube made of paper, also on the root of the tongue. Then you need to give the animal to drink.

Liquid medicines

They are given forcibly. You may need an assistant here. You need to pinch the dog's face or fix it with a bandage, raise the head, pull the cheek and pour the medicine into the gap between the upper and lower jaw using a syringe or syringe without a needle. The amount of liquid should not exceed one sip.

The drug is infused intermittently so that the dog has time to swallow it, and it does not enter the respiratory tract. Try to perform all actions with the pet calmly, without screaming and irritation, so as not to scare him.

Forced infusion of medication

We put candles and enemas

There are times when drugs need to be injected rectally - this way they will enter the bloodstream faster than if they were introduced through the mouth. In order to introduce candles, you need to raise the pet's tail, insert the candle into the anus and press the tail. Fix in this position for 5 minutes so that the candle has time to melt.

Enemas are also given rectally. For this, the dog is placed on the left side, the Esmarch's mug or syringe is filled with a warm solution. Lubricate the tip with petroleum jelly and gently insert the tip into the rectum with rotary movements. With a cleansing enema, the amount of injected liquid in large dogs is allowed no more than 1 liter, and with a medicinal enema - 50 ml, it is advisable to discuss the dosage with a veterinarian.

What are medicinal enemas for? With severe vomiting or diarrhea, the animal's body becomes dehydrated. This can be found by pulling the skin in the groin area. If the skin straightens quickly, then there is enough fluid in the body, but if the fold straightens slowly, then there is not enough water. It needs to be replenished with intravenous injections or enemas. However, one must take into account that there are no enzymes in the rectum. Therefore, it is possible to inject honey, hydrolysin (amino acids) and saline solution with drugs dissolved in it with enemas. The proportion is as follows: for 1 glass of physical. solution, we take 1 teaspoon of honey. We introduce 1/3 cup every 3-4 hours. This maintains water balance in the body and improves carbohydrate metabolism.

Oil enemas are done with coprostasis in order to remove dense feces. To do this, use sunflower or vaseline oil in a volume of 50-200 ml, heated to 38 degrees.

Introducing injections

We will not disregard the injection methods of drug administration. Consider subcutaneous and intramuscular injections of the drug, and leave the rest to specialists.

Subcutaneous

Can be done in the area of \u200b\u200bthe withers or shoulder blade, on the inner surface of the leg (thigh area) and abdomen (lower wall). A syringe is taken into the right hand, a fold of skin is pulled with the left hand and, into the formed depression, the needle is inserted at an angle of about 45 g. Once the needle is under the skin, a medicinal solution is injected. Then it is taken out, the injection site is lightly massaged. Up to 200-300 ml of solution can be injected under the skin, but slowly. This is a plus for the owners, since not everyone will be able to inject intravenously.

Intramuscular

Designed in cases where the drug is absorbed very slowly. There are more vessels in the muscles, and their contraction promotes faster absorption. But strongly irritating substances (calcium chloride) cannot be administered intramuscularly, as tissue necrosis can be caused. Intramuscular injections are made into large muscle groups (gluteal region, inner thigh, shoulder of the pectoral muscle), avoiding the location of large vessels, nerves, tendons, joints and bones. To do this, take a needle with a sharp bevel, insert it perpendicular to the skin surface to a depth of 2-4 cm and inject the medicine. The main thing when carrying them out is to securely fix the pet.

Most likely, the dog will never have to use many techniques and methods of giving medicine, but you should be aware of them. Perhaps it is they who will help in case of something to provide correct and timely assistance.
And yet, systematically follow your dog and will significantly reduce the risk of her illness.

Research by scientists has shown that dog owners, like cats, parrots and other domestic inhabitants, live 4-5 years longer than other people.

How do pets affect us? Well, firstly, communication with our beloved household inhabitants brings us a lot of positive emotions. Special studies have shown that in a person stroking an animal, the pulse rate and pressure decrease, the tension of the contracted muscles decreases, the general relaxation of the muscles occurs, and digestion improves.

Dog owners have been found to have lower blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels, they also have fewer colds, they have less headaches, and are less likely to develop a serious illness.

It also turned out that cats and dogs have bioenergetic properties. They can clearly feel the negative energy that comes from a diseased human organ. Therefore, the fluffy psychic unmistakably finds a sore spot, snuggles up to it, purrs and warms. And according to the results of another study, it turned out that there are significantly fewer bacteria in the room with pets!

The most important thing is that any four-legged friend can become a healer for a person, regardless of appearance and breed. The main thing is that you love him and take care of him, and then he will reward you many times over.

So, treatment with dogs ...

If you expect recovery from your dog, then the most important thing is that it be loved by all household members. In this case, the breed does not matter much, although a large dog is still preferable, since it is believed that the larger it is, the closer in size its organs are to ours, which we would like to improve.

With tonsillitis, arrhythmias, insufficient heart function, peptic ulcer, gastritis, colitis, hemorrhoids, jaundice, goiter, otitis media, gout, liver cirrhosis, scientists advise to have a large breed dog. With bronchitis, pneumonia, kidney failure, nephritis, angina pectoris - any is suitable. And the most desirable contact of biofields is created by training a service dog. This is both prevention and recovery from a variety of ailments, including genetic ones.

Dog-assisted treatment is a valuable form of psychotherapy in helping the patient return to the real world. The important role of eye contact, touch, facial expressions, gestures and other communication with a dog has been scientifically confirmed. Thanks to this, dogs are used in psychiatric clinics to treat patients with communication disorders, refuse to communicate, completely immersed in themselves, as well as in the treatment of deaf patients.

A dog, expressing loyalty to the owner, according to psychologists, provides him with invaluable psychological support, which even exceeds the strength of support of a loved one. If you are engaged in an important task, then the presence of a dog will help you cope with the task and maintain strength. Dogs soothe, relieve tension, save from heart attacks, pressure surges, headaches, hepatic colic, relieve pain syndromes in sciatica and neuralgia, heal inflammatory processes. They are irreplaceable for various skin diseases: they can even handle trophic ulcers.

In the USA and Great Britain dogs help epileptic patients. Dogs save their masters during epileptic seizures. They work as both diagnostics and orderlies. Some trained dogs sense the imminent seizure of their owner a few minutes before the onset. Feeling the approach of an attack, they expose themselves to the falling owner who is losing consciousness so that he does not hit the floor or furniture. The presence of a dog significantly reduces the duration of an attack and the likelihood of dangerous consequences.

A dog's "responsibility" in this matter is extremely necessary, since there are patients who experience epileptic seizures 3-4 times a week. Speaking about the incredible ability of dogs to feel the state of their wards, scientists say that this phenomenon is difficult to explain, in which there is a certain element of mysticism.

Dogs also treat insomnia. In Japan, where 13 million dogs live in Japanese families, pets are treated like full family members. It was in Japan that a study was conducted on the effect of cats and dogs on the sleep of their owners. Many people have trouble sleeping, and there is still no universal cure for insomnia. As a result of the study, the scientists concluded that pet owners experience fewer sleep problems than those who do not have cats or dogs. In turn, dog owners sleep better, those who keep a cat as a pet. Among dog owners, the best sleep is those whose animals have their own separate sleeping places, and do not share a sleeping place with the owners.

Special studies have shown that having a dog in the house determines a 50% reduction in the likelihood of a child's allergies. Early contact of the baby's immune system with various allergens that are brought to the coat of pets may be an explanation for this pattern.

Psychosocial contact between a person and a dog reliably improves almost all indicators of both physical and mental health of a person - as modern science claims.

Most psychologists believe that the dog has a function of psychological substitution, making up for the lack of communication between people. Simply put, the dog compensates (to a certain extent) to its owner for the absence of a loved one and the lack of communication with other people. And it is quite understandable, therefore, that the need to acquire a dog is experienced primarily by those people who subconsciously need warm, emotionally colored relationships.

Many animal therapists believe that the main reason for the therapeutic effectiveness of canistherapy (from the Latin canis - dog) is the effect of the dog's behavior on the human consciousness and subconsciousness. And first of all, the dog's devotion and adoration of the owner plays a role here.

At the genetic level, dogs are inherent in love for humans, and this love is absolutely independent of the social status of the owner, the characteristics of his character and behavior. Dogs often forgive their owners for an indifferent or even hostile attitude, and this forgiveness can last indefinitely, until the very end of a difficult dog's life ...

Dog loyalty is proverbial! To be close to your beloved master (or mistress) is the main purpose of existence and the highest reward for a faithful dog. The owner can treat the dog in the most disgusting, inhuman way (unfortunately, you can often find such an attitude), but she never expresses her displeasure and almost never takes revenge on him! Moreover, she will never voluntarily leave her master, even if he mocks her, beats her and feeds her very badly ...

And this devotion makes the dog treat the beloved owner and his family members (members of the pack, according to the dog's definitions). Immensely compassionate to a sick person - a member of his pack, the dog perceives his illness as his own. For a dog to help his loved ones recover means to recover on its own - from pity, the wild pain that it experiences, empathizing with the suffering one!

Canistherapy practice

How does the healing process take place, how does a dog, in addition to purely psychological influence, heal a person?

The dog acts like ... a large bio-heating pad. Nestling against the sore spots of the human body, she "draws out" the pain, improves the general well-being of her "patient". The dog is your home bioreflexologist. The more I hear cases of healing involving dogs, the more I am amazed at what these intuitively intelligent creatures are. Oriental doctors have been studying reflexogenic areas and points on the human body for many years, ways of influencing them. And the dog knows all this ... from nature! She accurately determines which points of the owner need to be affected in order for some of his ailments to pass. And it passes after all!

Contact with a dog is especially effective for radiculitis, osteochondrosis and other diseases of the peripheral nervous system. It is worth reminding here that it is the dog's hair (more precisely, the belts connected from it) that helps very well with the listed diseases.

In the literature on animal-assisted therapy, there are recommendations for a fixed contact time between a dog and a sick person. For example, with the above pathology of the spinal nerves, it is recommended to keep the dog on the sore spot for about 20 minutes. The author is inclined to believe that (as with felin therapy) such recommendations do not have a strict scientific basis. The more time a healing animal contacts a sick person, the better. Let us recall the stories about polar explorers traveling on dog sleds, who were caught in the open by snowstorms: experienced travelers tore a hole in the snow and, snuggling up to the sled dogs, sometimes even spent several days with them in such close contact. And nothing harmful to human health happened - on the contrary, the dogs with the warmth of their bodies (I would like to add - and the heat of their hearts) warmed the owner, did not let him freeze. Long-term observations of the author of these lines allow us to conclude that animal healers in most cases themselves accurately determine the duration of the treatment session.

The procedures performed in canistherapy are mainly associated with local heating. From the dog comes living warmth, a "health impulse", which aligns the work of our organs and systems. Just keep in mind that nothing can be done outside the will of the dog. Forcibly holding her back for therapy sessions is stupid, just make her angry and get nervous yourself. It is important that she understands that you want to get help from her, and wants to give you this help. How do you make her understand what you need? Talk to her. The dog understands almost everything that we want to convey to him. This is probably not due to the identification of the sound of words, but due to the capture of the "inner message" that is contained in any of our utterances.

For what diseases are canistherapy sessions shown and how they are carried out

Only calm, non-aggressive and obedient dogs with a very stable nervous system should be allowed to work with patients.

Canistherapy is indicated for cardiovascular diseases, diseases of the respiratory tract, digestive system, urinary system, diseases of the genitals (except for infectious diseases of the genital organs). Dogs are good at relieving pain in various diseases and disorders of the body, wounds and injuries. Headache and hepatic colic, "aches" in the joints and pain in the heart - this is an incomplete list of those ailments in which dogs can effectively help us humans. Kanistherapy has proven itself well in various inflammatory processes in the body. British researchers have found that dog owners have significantly lower blood cholesterol levels than other people. The same applies to arterial hypertension - dog owners have lower blood pressure values. Such studies at different times, but with the same result, were carried out by Japanese and German doctors. Thus, the experiments of the German scientist Dr. M. Fox convincingly proved that stroking dogs on the coat not only effectively lowers blood pressure, but also lowers excessively high rigidity (tension) of human muscles. Simple stroking of your pet effectively slows down the pulse, normalizes the activity of the digestive system of the body, contributes to the onset of general relaxation (pleasant relaxation).

Stroking your dog is very helpful in preventing cardiovascular disease. But even if the trouble has already occurred and the person has suffered a myocardial infarction or cerebral stroke, the presence of a dog will help him to cope with the consequences of a serious illness sooner and easier.

Even 30 years ago, American doctors from Philadelphia found that the risk of having a second heart attack (which all heart attack sufferers are very afraid of) sharply decreases if a person constantly communicates with a dog!

Writing down and organizing cases of the effectiveness of contacts with a dog, I came to the conclusion: a dog can cure almost everything!

Canine diagnostics

As I mentioned earlier, many dogs have unique diagnostic abilities. It has long been known that they can predict a possible loss of consciousness in a person (for example, in the event of an epileptic seizure or heart attack). And not just to predict, but to take all possible measures to save the adored owner (for example, quickly laying down on the floor in such a way that the patient with a sudden loss of consciousness could not be seriously injured, falling). But how can dogs determine what is yet to happen? Scientists suggest that in the case of people with epilepsy, their dogs can reliably detect an onset seizure about half an hour before the first symptoms appear. The dog "takes bearings" of the high-frequency "impulse noise" of the cerebral hemispheres, which always precedes an epileptic seizure. A sick person who has not yet felt anything (and epileptic seizures are also terrible because of their suddenness), having received the appropriate signal from the four-legged "diagnostician", manages to take all the necessary measures in the remaining time.

In a similar (and incomprehensible) way, dogs predict the onset of hyperglycemic shock in diabetes.

One day I read a story about how a dog that had been living in a house for a long time began to behave in an incomprehensible way. Whenever the owner's old mother tried to approach the open basement hatch or the burning stove burners, the dog immediately jumped up and blocked her path. And no one could understand what was the matter until it became clear: for several months the old woman had been practically blind, and only the dog knew about it.

Dogs often save their owners from trouble, because, as a rule, they sense danger much earlier than humans.

Diagnosis of brain failure

And there are cases when the dog "insolently", although it is constantly driven away, tries to lie down on the pillow to the owner. And not to wean the dog, and she tries to press her belly directly to the head of a person, and then lick him in the area of \u200b\u200bthe forehead and scalp. So, this is most likely not hooliganism and promiscuity of a dog, but a desire to help with brain failure! She tries her best to induce blood flow to the owner's head with her heat in order to restart the cerebral circulation process. I, of course, speak purely schematically, explain not in a scientific way, but "on the fingers." But in my practice, about a dozen cases were recorded when such a dog's behavior indicated significant malfunctions in the owner's health.

Diagnosis of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and genital area

The dog tries to snuggle up to the stomach, puts its muzzle on the stomach area, lies like that for a long time - most likely you have some kind of trouble with the gastrointestinal tract. Listen to yourself, drink activated charcoal for a start, eat bifido foods, exclude fermenting, fried, spicy foods from your diet.

If he puts his muzzle on the lower abdomen, do not rush to reproach your pet for “sexual harassment”. Perhaps he just senses some kind of problem in your genital area. Again, observe yourself, listen to your physiological manifestations, if something causes anxiety - to the doctor!

Diagnosis of liver diseases

If you again lie on your side, and the dog crawls under your liver area, it means that it is trying to warm you up in this place. Most likely this is not without reason, there are some pathologies. Do not chase your "doctor", let him help you with what he can. He tries very hard. And then observe yourself, if there are any unpleasant symptoms - bitterness in the mouth in the morning, taste of bile, if everything is in order with the stool (not discolored), and go to the clinic, let them diagnose you on special equipment.

The "canine diagnosis" is usually correct about 70% of the time.

Diagnosis of diseases of the heart and blood vessels

But some things about dog behavior can be recognized at home. I have collected special statistics on dog behavior, by which one can predict certain ailments from the owner. I just warn you: the specific reactions of the dog are a reason to contact the clinic for a final diagnosis, to listen to yourself, and not a call for self-medication.

Many dogs, especially urban ones, love to lie with their owners, and they are not driven away from themselves. Intuitively, people feel what kind of positive comes from the dog - that with every cell it seeks to convey to the owner an impulse of health and warmth. So, according to where the dog tries to lie down, we can conclude that something is wrong with you in this place. If your furry friend and "family doctor" strives to "lie down" to you all the time from the same side, to cuddle up to the same place, it is very likely that not everything is in order in that place.

If, when you are lying on your side, your dog tries to lie down on you so that it touches the heart area, you are probably not doing well with your pump. The dog lies down in this way to even out your heart rate in its own way (especially for large breed dogs).

With varicose veins and thrombophlebitis, dogs usually try to "catch" the owner or mistress and lick the inflamed veins.

However, people probably already know about diseases of their heart and blood vessels, without a "dog diagnosis".

Dogs diagnose cancer

Canine's unique supersensitive sense of smell also helps people with cancer. Based on the hypersensitivity of dogs, the American researcher McCulloch has developed a technique that makes it possible to almost accurately diagnose the presence of early forms of cancerous tumors using the dog's sense of smell.

There is a known case when a dog began to show increased attention to the right knee of its owner. A shrewd woman went to the doctor, and what - it was in this place that she found a malignant tumor! Moreover, this tumor was at the earliest stage, when it was still possible to solve the problem surgically. This is how the dog saved its mistress from a serious disaster.

British researchers conducted an experiment; as a result of which it was found that dogs can identify bladder cancer by ... the smell of urine. The accuracy of such a diagnosis is beyond doubt - it is three times higher than random coincidences. For seven months, doctors from the Emersham clinic trained six experimental dogs of different breeds to distinguish between the urine of healthy people (as well as people with other diseases) and the urine of patients with bladder cancer by smell. After completing the training course, the dogs were offered a control trial: each of them had to choose from seven urine samples, one that belongs to a patient with bladder cancer. This test was repeated nine times by each dog! The test results were encouraging: in almost half of the cases, dogs accurately identified the urine of cancer patients. The probability of accidental identification was only 14%. Spaniels showed the highest accuracy and mongrels the lowest. Moreover, in the course of the experiment, all dogs determined one of the samples (urine of a healthy person) as a urine sample of a patient with cancer. This behavior of the shaggy "diagnosticians" puzzled the doctors, and at the end of the experiment, this man (considered healthy) was carefully examined. Imagine the surprise of the doctors when exactly this person was diagnosed with a kidney tumor!

Dogs' superb scent helps doctors identify people with breast and lung cancer early on in the development of these dire conditions. Thus, in the USA, under the auspices of the Pine Street Foundation and with its financial support, a corresponding experiment was carried out. Five dogs of different breeds were trained, as in the experiment described above, to react to the smells of sick and healthy people. In this case, they were offered samples of air exhaled by healthy people and patients with breast cancer, as well as lung cancer. After a short training, an experiment was conducted with the participation of humans, the smell of which they exhaled was previously unknown to the trained dogs. In total, the dogs were offered exhaled air samples taken from 83 healthy people, 55 patients with lung cancer and 31 patients with breast cancer. The experiment showed remarkable results - the likelihood of dogs recognizing cancer patients reached 90% even after the experiment excluded lung cancer patients who did not quit smoking.

Scientists have suggested that dogs react to a specific odor produced by cancer cells. Representatives of the Pine Street Foundation, commenting on the results of the experiment, said that the accurate determination of the chemical composition of the molecules of the "cancer smell" will help create electronic analyzers that diagnose early stages of cancer as effectively as dogs do.

Naturally, at home, no one diagnoses cancer with the help of a dog. Dear Readers! Never mind this method! This is what science does; at home on the behavior of Bobikov and Sharikov, do not try to draw conclusions about your state of health, especially when it comes to such serious things as cancer. If your dog even worries, it will take time before you correctly understand his behavior and figure out what caused it. God be with them, with research! If you have even the slightest suspicion of oncological processes, run as fast as you can to the specialists so as not to waste precious time! And with the dog - communicate, she will help you in any case as a natural biotherapist.

Dog age

Often people wonder who is the best therapist - an adult dog or a puppy? The question is legitimate and very important. In fact: if you took home a dog baby, wouldn't it hurt him if you immediately begin to “load” him with problems of your own health? Or, on the contrary, his energy is so strong that it is he who will help you cope with ailments? Or should you give him a little more growth?

As far as I know, no special research has been carried out on this issue. However, based on my own experience, I would venture to suggest that adult dogs have a higher healing capacity than little puppies. Perhaps this is due to the fact that adults have more body weight, and the bioenergetic potential is certainly higher. As for the psychological impact, here puppies are beyond any competition! Their endless fun fuss, great love for people, which shines in their clever little eyes, endless gullibility ... well, where else can you find living creatures so pure in soul?

So my advice to you: if there are functional disorders in the work of some organs or

systems, then seek help from an adult dog. And the puppies will help to relieve neuropsychic problems.

As for whether communication with a sick person will harm the puppy, whether it will be a blow to his energy - I can reassure you: no, it will not. You will not achieve much sense by conducting canistherapy sessions with babies, but the babies will not be hurt. Tested in practice by my numerous friends!

Dog size

The well-known scientist, Doctor of Medical Sciences B.V. Shevrygin believes that the size of the animal is more important for effective co-bacotherapy than the breed. The larger the dog, the better - the closer in size its organs are to ours, which we want to improve. This is especially important when acting on the internal organs.

Interesting fact: the larger the dog, the higher its heart rate (one of the indicators of heart contractility). It is used in the treatment of patients with heart failure. Patients daily for 30-40 minutes (maybe more) hold their hands in the heart of a large dog. The therapeutic effectiveness of this method of treatment is comparable to that of pacemakers. So much for your "heart of a dog"! This is exactly how my friend from Krasnodar, who suffers from paroxysmal tachycardia (heart palpitations), was treated for his ailment. Unfortunately, it was never possible to recover completely - but the attacks of tachycardia themselves passed quickly enough, as soon as he put his hands in the area of \u200b\u200bthe heart of his favorite - Newfoundland Jerry.

When it comes to pneumonia, angina, kidney failure or nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), a dog of any size will do. Even small or very small dogs can also perfectly heal people.

The "specialization" of healing dogs

Many people ask me, deciding to get a dog and hoping to get, besides a friend, a doctor, which breed of puppy to choose.

Indeed, does the dog's breed (or breed) affect the effectiveness of the therapy? Many experts believe that there is no clearly defined specialization. Although, I must say, some dog breeds are more useful for certain ailments.

So, it was noticed that in diseases of the musculoskeletal system, shepherd dogs are best of all: German, East European and Central Asian (also known as Alabai).

But the Chinese crested dog is considered a "family doctor" in animal therapy. The presence of this wonderful, friendly creature is good for heart disease and hypertension, allergies and some skin diseases. This dog can ... stop attacks of bronchial asthma. According to some reports, the presence of a Chinese crested dog in the house even slows down the development of cancer.

For hot-tempered, irritable and unbalanced people, dogs from the Shyrpey breed are best suited. Dogs, in comparison with other animals, have a particularly powerful biofield (cats do not count!), And Sharpeis are believed to have the most powerful biofield! And this factor has an effective calming effect on a person prone to "gushing emotions."

And the best "pediatricians" are St. Bernards, Newfoundlands, Collies, Giant Schnauzers, Boxers, Terriers and Spaniels.

Labradors do an excellent job with the functions of a "family doctor". However, if one of the readers of this book wants to get a Labrador, you need to remember that he will never make a reliable watchman and guard - the centuries-old history of breeding this breed was aimed at breeding dogs that absolutely trust people and are incredibly friendly. Probably not without reason both the Clinton family and the Putin family preferred Labradors when choosing a dog.

If there are small children in the house, the best pediatricians and nannies for them will be dogs of the St. Bernard, Newfoundland, Collie (Scottish Shepherd), Boxer, Mittel Schnauzer, Airedale and Giant Schnauzer breeds. If the child is mobile, it is best to have a spaniel that also loves to run. You just need to create conditions for their joint games, otherwise the kid and the dog, carried away, can smash everything around!

To prolong life

It has been reliably established that the life expectancy of people who are in regular contact with dogs increases by an average of 15% in comparison with those of their peers who are deprived of such pleasant communication for some reason. Physiologists say that simple stroking of a dog effectively lowers heart rate, normalizes blood pressure and slows down the pulse. In addition, digestion processes are improved and muscle relaxation (muscle relaxation) occurs.

Many modern psychologists believe that a dog (by nature is a very attentive observer) feels the slightest shades in the mood of people much better than other animals. And in the human family, where responsibilities and social roles are mainly distributed from the very beginning, from the very moment the family was formed, the dog very quickly understands the sometimes rather complex system of relationships. And having already understood the hierarchy, the dog establishes a special, invisible, but very strong contact with each member of the human community (it is assumed that dogs perceive the human family as a flock of two-legged). This contact is based on the dog's subconscious perception of individual preferences and human characteristics. As a rule, the dog itself is ready to fulfill a certain role in the family (flock): guide, guard, nanny, etc.

To prevent quarrels and conflicts

Dogs help not only sick people - they quickly and reliably relieve the effects of stress in healthy people. Daily communication with your beloved dog is quite enough for a person to satisfy the need for communication. A dog increases a person's self-esteem, he becomes much calmer, more sociable and less irritable. It has long been noted that in the house where the dog is kept, there are fewer quarrels and conflicts. And if they do happen, then the presence of the dog contributes to their speedy and painless resolution. Scientists believe that this phenomenon can be explained as follows: the very presence of a dog in the house, worries and troubles, the need to walk the animal every day lead to closer communication between family members. They have common interests, and this inevitably contributes to the strengthening of intra-family ties.

For old age problems

Dogs effectively reduce the distraction inherent in many patients. As you know, dogs are distinguished by innate restlessness (their ancestors - wolves - simply could not afford to sit in one place, wolves were always "fed by their feet"), and this restlessness has the most amazing effect on patients with motor impairments.

The dog should be walked at least once or twice a day. And this duty in itself becomes an excellent remedy for physical inactivity, laziness and obesity for the dog owner. Walking a dog reduces the risk of the occurrence and development of cardiovascular diseases (including such serious ones as myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke), stabilizes body weight, oxygenates our tissues and organs (especially if the walking route runs through squares, forest park areas and etc.). This was confirmed by studies by doctors from Los Angeles, who found that retired dog owners are much less likely to see a doctor than their peers who do not have dogs.

These walks are also useful because, while outside the home, the owners of the dogs often communicate with each other. Such communication is especially useful for those who live alone (of course, not counting the dog). This primarily concerns pensioners, as well as other elderly people, whose children live separately and often far from their parents. This is convincingly proven, among other things, by the research of June McNicholas, Doctor of Psychology, who claims that walking pets is very beneficial to human health. This is not only due to physical activity, but also because during the walk, the number of social bonds forging with the owners of other pets increases. This is also the opinion of Dr. Karen Allen, an expert at the State University of New York.

Of course, there are skeptics who argue that the benefit of regular walks with the dog lies in the fact that a person moves a lot, and even breathes fresh air at the same time. The dog itself, they say, has nothing to do with it. Even if they are right, so what? It is important that walking the dog is beneficial and healthy, not why and how it happens!

Special studies to determine the effectiveness of the psychological impact of dogs on people with disabilities allowed us to draw interesting conclusions. It turned out that disabled people (namely, they make up the majority of people with disabilities), after communicating with dogs, developed and strengthened feelings of "inner" freedom and independence. Patients began to feel more secure, they became (during treatment) much more relaxed, sociable and welcoming, they ceased to feel lonely and of no use to anyone. Especially valuable for the psychological state of patients was the fact that communication with the dog led them to realize their intrinsic value in the eyes of another living being. Sick and disabled people began to understand that someone really needed them, and this feeling helped them actively fight their ailments.

Different breeds of dogs have their own therapeutic profile when interacting with people with any movement limitations. For example, shepherd dogs (German and Central Asian) teach children to walk. Miniature Pinschers "specialize" in improving motor coordination. In case of violation of the motor activity of the hands of a small patient, it helps him in the treatment of a cocker spaniel, more correctly - stroking the silky and wavy hair of these wonderful dogs.

However specialization is specialization; but it is optional. The main thing is contact with any "own" dog.

For communication problems

Specialized clinics and ordinary hospitals, boarding schools and orphanages, hospitals and nursing homes, hospices and homes for the disabled - this is an incomplete list of those institutions that actively use animal therapy methods (primarily, of course, canistherapy). And practically everywhere this branch of alternative medicine, with its skillful application, turns out to be very, very effective!

Desperate, withdrawn, fixated on their misfortune or suffering from loneliness, people, communicating with dogs and involuntarily reacting to their friendliness, begin to communicate more with others, talk more, take an interest in life, and find something to do. This often helps them overcome excessive self-absorption and take the first step towards recovery.

In the West, many pets (and above all dogs) live with their owners in nursing homes. People who have visited such houses say that an atmosphere of spiritual comfort (and not only spiritual!) And tranquility reigns there everywhere. And if one of the elderly cannot, due to age or illness, take care of their pet, then this is done by the staff of the institution, helped by volunteers.

Loneliness loneliness, you know, strife. In some cases, it is associated with objective reasons (absence of relatives, low income, old age). In others, people themselves provoke their own isolation. And in such cases, a dog can also provide invaluable help to a person! There are many known cases when the dog literally returned the owner to the world, to a full life, communication.

With anxiety and fear

Australian psychologist Linda Martson (Department of Psychology at Monash University) believes that dogs (along with old photographs) help reduce feelings of anxiety and fear and even partially restore memory in elderly people with dementia. Special studies conducted by Dr. Martson have convincingly proved that after three weeks of regular communication with dogs, sick old people increased social activity, decreased feelings of constant anxiety, and they could again maintain meaningful conversation. According to Linda Martson, memory is still functioning in patients with senile dementia, but doctors no longer have access to it. The use of alternative means (old photos, music, etc.) often helps the memory to work again. As for communication with a dog, it stimulates the sense of touch in patients, helps a person to concentrate on reality, and has a calming effect. On top of that, such a program to help the sick elderly does not need government funding, since volunteers from charitable organizations provide assistance. These noble people, along with their dogs, simply come to nursing homes and specialized clinics when necessary.

With nervous and mental disorders

The Texas Animal Therapy Society executive director Bernard Curran and her team argue that dogs provide tremendous benefits to patients with physical and mental illness.

In one of the psychiatric clinics in the United States, 112 patients were offered to take dogs as healers. 90 patients agreed. After a short time, 80 of them showed a serious and lasting improvement in their well-being.

Researchers from New York Ferry and Corson testify that positive changes in social behavior of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders occur after the beginning of the activity of animal healers. According to them, in such patients, the feeling of social isolation and loneliness decreases, and the number of positive contacts between the clinic staff and these patients increases.

And here is "our" data. Specialists working in the famous Moscow clinic named after 3. P. Solovyov, testify: dogs effectively helped more than 30% of patients undergoing treatment for various neuropsychiatric disorders: neurasthenia, hysteria, psychoasthenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and sensory-obsessive neurosis.

In America, as in Europe, dogs are the majority of the animals used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders. Their help to old people and children is especially effective. The presence of a dog effectively lowers nervous tension, significantly alleviates various phobias, quickly and reliably removes the patient from a depressive state.

Children with congenital cerebral palsy

The famous Austrian scientist, world famous zoologist, founder of the science of ethology (the doctrine of animal behavior), Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz argued that dogs make a certain contribution to establishing contact between a child and the outside world.

But how does this happen in practice? It's very simple - in the process of communicating with a dog, a child not only communicates freely with it. He also takes care of his four-legged friend and doctor - he feeds the dog, combs its fur, walks it. And these are not just elements of communication - combing wool, for example, contributes to the development of normal motor functions. Attempts to train the dog develop communication skills, and above all, the speech of the little patient. And not only speech - the child's motor skills inherent in birth are restored. It is known, for example, that children suffering from infantile cerebral palsy have difficulty performing even the simplest movements. It hurts and scares them to move, move their arms and legs, walk and even talk. Nevertheless, there are cases when children with cerebral palsy overcame pain, got up from a wheelchair, tried to walk and talk. This happened when they needed to play with a dog in the same room! Often, communication with a dog is the last remedy that can help small patients when all other means and methods are powerless against the disease. Practice proves this.

On the dogs themselves, communication with children has an ambiguous effect. Happy to help their little patients, dogs themselves, as a rule, have a hard time tolerating canistherapy sessions. They get tired quickly and may even refuse to work. In many medical institutions, a rule has been introduced: a dog should only deal with two babies a day, and nothing more!

In medical practice, there is a case when a child suffering from cerebral palsy got up from a wheelchair and, overcoming fear and pain, began ... to walk the dog presented to him! Psychologists and doctors say that when in contact with a dog, the mental status of a child with cerebral palsy changes dramatically for the better. And this statement is true not only for patients with cerebral palsy, but also for those who suffer from a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Non-contact children

Dog therapy has a special effect when working with any children with little contact, and especially those suffering from such a disease as autism. Sick children are less immersed in themselves, their condition and behavior are noticeably improved, which has the most beneficial effect on the effectiveness of the therapy.

As a matter of fact, all modern animal therapy owes its birth to the observation of the New York child psychiatrist Boris Levinson, who, back in 1969, noticed the amazing peculiarity of children with autism to make friends with a dog! And not just to tie, but also to be friends, and not just to be friends, but to gradually recover, return to a normal human outlook. Boris Levinson noticed that his little patients literally came to life if the doctor's favorite dog was nearby. It turned out that it is enough to conduct a course of animal-assisted therapy for six months, so that sick children have a significant increase in self-esteem, an improvement in mental well-being, the development of internal self-control and craving for greater sociability with other children. After years of observing the amazing abilities of pet therapy (as Levinson first called animal therapy), the psychiatrist came to the conclusion that the experience of interacting with an animal and caring for it contributed to a significant increase in self-control, tolerance and self-control in young patients. The child became much more receptive to the moods and sensations of other people, learned to understand them, and not dwell on himself.

Formation of the child's nervous and mental systems

According to a special survey conducted by researchers from the University of Warwick (UK), pets are the most important partners for children. When interviewing children aged 7-8, it was found that 90% of them put pets (mainly dogs and cats) among the top ten priorities in their lives. Some children think that pets are closer to them than school teachers or relatives! Moreover, it was the dog that most of the interviewed children named their most beloved interlocutor, who can keep a secret or comfort in grief.

Many psychologists also believe that in the relationship of a child to a dog, certain age stages can be traced. So, at the age of up to 3 years, the dog seems to the baby to be a larger and pleasant toy, from 3 to 8-9 years old children already consciously communicate with the dog, from 9 years old until adolescence, communication with the dog develops positive family feelings in children. In the most difficult (including for those around) adolescence, the dog often becomes the only effective educator, stabilizes the outbursts of emotions usual for this age, strengthens the psyche - in a word, it has an extremely beneficial effect on the teenager!

Experts from the German Foundation for the Protection of Children note that the relationship between a dog and a child is of great pedagogical importance. In the company with the dog, the child becomes much more organized, he acquires communication skills easier and faster, learns to respect the opinions of others. The Foundation's specialists also argue that a child's desire to have his own dog is a sign of his harmonious development, and this desire should not be hindered. Communication with a dog develops the child's responsibility and sociability, prepares the little person for a difficult life in the adult world, gives a sense of security.

Based on the above-mentioned results of studies of Western European scientists, a psychologist from France A. Condore strongly advises ... to keep dogs in schools. According to the scientist, the presence of a dog will help a shy child to communicate with other children, and children suffering from neuropsychic diseases, in the process of communicating with dogs, will be able to make up for the lack of communication links.

But in the Czech Republic, they have already begun to introduce into practice the keeping of dogs in children's institutions. For example, in the town of Třebíč, Labrador dogs are once a week at school with pupils from junior and middle grades. Dogs are supervised by a school psychologist. Within a month after the start of joint classes, children began to study better and miss classes less. Schoolchildren have noticeably increased concentration, they have become calmer and friendlier. Aggressive children have improved behavior.

The opinion of the French psychologist is shared by many of his colleagues around the world.

For example, the famous American researcher of the psychological aspects of the relationship between people and animals, Professor Brenda K. Bryant, claims that dogs have a powerful social impact on children. Many modern psychotherapists believe that a child who avoids communication with other children or adults can make excellent contact with a dog. And even in a mentally unhealthy, egocentric child, the animal is able to awaken interest in something else, and not just in itself.

It's all about the emotionality of the dog!

Many psychotherapists believe that dogs are much more active than other animals in expressing their emotions (indeed, some puppies, if you pick them up and caress them, squeal happily and even pee with delight!). These properties of dogs - sociability and spontaneity, friendliness and devotion, gratitude and complete absence of selfish interests - are the reason for significant success when using them in animal therapy. Sick people, especially those who are closed and deep in themselves, begin to reach out to good-natured and cheerful dogs, especially since dogs are ready to tirelessly communicate with their charges.

Communication with a dog increases the vitality and psychological mood of almost any person, significantly improves his well-being, and strengthens the nervous system. Some neuropathologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts strongly recommend that their patients get a dog! It is especially useful to have a dog at home for people with an unstable and even traumatized psyche. Devotion and disinterestedness of dogs, their reckless love for the owner do miracles for the hour where medicine has proved powerless.

The dog gives its positive energy to the person

Dogs differ from cats primarily in that by their nature they are extroverts (facing outward), and cats, on the contrary, are introverts (facing inward, inward). Accordingly, canistherapy and feline therapy differ from each other in the attitude shown by cats and dogs to the people they are treating. Cats are treated because it is useful and pleasant for them, as many psychologists and animal therapists believe. A cat “takes”, so to speak, negative bioenergy from a sick person, but a dog cannot. For a dog, negative bioenergy is just as harmful as for a person. Various examples can be cited to support these words. So, everyone knows how hard and negatively dogs perceive the quarrels of their owners - listening to the squabble of their loved ones, they can even get sick, get a nervous breakdown, and in the worst cases - even a heart attack!

So, a dog, unlike a cat, which draws out negative energy from a person and thus contributes to his recovery, on the contrary, gives off energy, and this energy is positive. It is widely believed among many bioenergetics that dogs are "recharged" with the energy of the cosmos directly, and not indirectly, as other living beings do. With this point of view, you can agree or disagree, but really - are there more cheerful and active animals than dogs? Their restlessness, innocence and ingenuous zeal are in plain sight - well, who else can chase their own tail for hours? And the endless fun fuss of dogs with each other or with the owner's children - what animal (except kittens) can boast of such a property of temperament? Maybe dogs really have inexhaustible energy?

And even during sleep, if a dog is just sleeping, tightly pressed against a person, it feeds him with positive bioenergy, increases the person's vitality, and restores strength. A simple example is taiga hunters and their faithful huskies. Exhausted after the day, hunters make a fire in the evening and fall asleep next to them - and the dogs lie down next to them. In the morning, the hunter gets up perfectly rested, well-slept, full of energy - as if he hadn't wound many kilometers through the taiga the day before in search of the beast ... Do you know what is most striking? The dog, acting as a gratuitous donor of its energy, does not suffer in the least in terms of energy, giving it away. Not that it was a surplus - no! The dog draws more and more energy from the world around, it is not afraid to give it away, because its energy reserves are constantly replenished. We can say that a dog is spontaneously generous, but this generosity has its own motive: a dog is a darling of fate, because it always has an abundance of what others collect and keep bit by bit. That is why the dog shares its energy with us recklessly, it is sure that it will come to it from the outside no less than it will give. And the huskies, all night feeding people with their own energy, get up in the morning cheerful and satisfied, ready for new many hours of transitions, full of strength and delight in front of life! (And remember the numerous current discussions about energy vampires who "suck" bioenergy from their victims. How does a person who acted as an "energy donor" feel? Right, like a squeezed lemon. How much they ask, how much they take! Feel the difference! The dog gives us a significant head start in terms of bioenergy!)

And here is another example, a historical one. The ancient Vikings, it turns out, were well aware of the unique property of dogs to transmit powerful energy charges to people. Before the battle, the Vikings went to bed in an embrace with their mighty war dogs. The next morning, the Vikings had no equal in the battle - they could fight without a break for many hours. None of the opponents could withstand such stress - and the formidable northerners won victories again and again ...

Dogs have one more undoubted advantage over other animals - they are relatively easy to train and special train. Of course, such training should be carried out by experienced, qualified instructors, because their charges will treat people, so the selection among dogs - future companions and human helpers is always quite strict. Generally, charitable foundations and societies finance the training and education of dogs intended for the treatment of humans. In a number of Western countries (as, for example, in some Scandinavian countries), financial and organizational assistance in this noble cause is provided by the state through special institutions authorized by the government of this country.

Dog saliva is a panacea for wounds, burns, fungal infections, inflammations

Dogs are especially good at treating various skin diseases, as well as wounds, scratches, abrasions and injuries. Dog saliva contains lysozyme, a powerful antimicrobial agent. People have long known that licking wounds promotes their early healing (I have already mentioned this in passing, now I repeat myself).

Nowadays, you can hear that dog saliva does not have any healing ability at all. Some researchers even believe that licking human wounds and wounds by a dog is extremely harmful, since (in their opinion) data on the lysozyme activity of dog saliva are greatly exaggerated. Consequently, harmful microorganisms and dirt particles can get into the wound with dog saliva, which is unacceptable. What can I say here? According to the author of these lines, the saliva lysozyme of a healthy dog \u200b\u200bstill has a powerful antimicrobial effect, therefore, the dog's saliva is useful. In any case, this is confirmed by the centuries-old practice of traditional healers. And also my own experience and the experience of my many acquaintances and owners of my four-legged patients.

So, what kind of trouble does dog grooming help with?

If you have a fresh or festering wound, let your dog lick it. At some point, it may seem that her tongue is like a grater. It is she who persistently cleans the wound. One, two, three such licking sessions - and things will get better!

There is such an old way of treating curvature of the spine in children. The child is placed on the floor with his back up, and sour cream is smeared around his spine. Then the dog is invited. And she begins to lick the sour cream, while simultaneously massaging the child with her wonderful healing saliva. Scoliosis of the first and second degree is thus cured within one and a half to two months!

Dog saliva helps with fungal infections! Even if the fungus is on the toenail, the dog can help here too. Let her lick her sore leg every night. Naturally, it would be nice to steam your finger with baking soda or salt before that, cut off the “bad” nail under the base, then you can smear this place with oil. And the dog will lick it selflessly. In a month, he can lick all the ailments!

For rheumatism, gout, diseases of the liver and gallbladder, respiratory tract

Press the plantar part of the foot together with the toes tightly to the dog. This exercise is performed for rheumatism and gout, liver and gallbladder diseases, as well as for respiratory diseases (primarily for colds). Such a wide range of diseases, the healing of which this exercise contributes, is due to the fact that nerve endings associated with a number of internal organs go out to the plantar part of the foot. The impact on these nerve endings stimulates the work of these organs, activates metabolic processes and speeds up recovery.

For foot injuries, circulation disorders, edema

Firmly press the lower leg and the upper part of the foot ("lift") in front and behind the dog ("Achilles tendon"),

lying next to the dog is no longer necessary. Both of these exercises are performed for various injuries of the lower leg and foot. These exercises are especially helpful for patients diagnosed with an Achilles tendon injury.

Another exercise is to firmly press the entire upper part of the foot along with the toes to the dog. This exercise is recommended for various foot injuries, as well as for microvascular blood circulation disorders.

With injuries of the hips and legs, inflammation of the joints, varicose veins, thrombophlebitis

Press the middle part of the thighs in front and behind the dog tightly. This exercise helps well with various injuries of the middle part of the thigh (bruises, fractures, etc.), as well as with varicose veins and thrombophlebitis.

Another exercise is to firmly press the lower thighs and knee area in front and behind the dog. This procedure is indicated for injuries of this part of the body, thrombophlebitis, varicose veins, as well as for inflammatory diseases of the knee joints.

We firmly press the upper part of the lower leg to the dog in front and behind. Both of the last exercises are performed both for leg injuries in this area, and for varicose veins. This procedure has a special effect in the case when diseases of the venous vessels are just beginning to develop (when a "mesh" of venous vessels is just beginning to be seen under the skin).

As I already said, massage of problem areas with a dog's tongue is highly indicated for varicose veins. In my practice, there were cases when dogs by licking slowed down the development of the disease and turned it back!

With sciatica, lumbago, kidney disease

Press the lower back tightly to the dog. This exercise is useful for radiculitis, lumbago and other diseases of the spinal nerves, as well as for kidney diseases, nephritis, nephrosis, etc.

The next exercise is to firmly press the lower abdomen to the dog. This exercise is indicated for diseases of the intestines (especially of its large section) and bladder (including urolithiasis and enuresis). In women, the therapeutic effect of this exercise is manifested in diseases of the internal genital organs. It is especially useful to perform a similar procedure for diseases of the genitals of inflammatory origin: adnexitis, colpitis, metritis, vaginitis, etc.

For colds and disorders of the organs of vision, barley and conjunctivitis

Press the front part of the head tightly to the dog. This exercise is performed for colds - rhinitis, sinusitis, sinusitis, frontal sinusitis, ethmosphenoiditis and pansinusitis, as well as for headaches that are a consequence of the listed diseases. In addition, this procedure is indicated for disorders and diseases of the organs of vision (including an ailment, colloquially referred to as "barley"). Caution should be exercised when doing this exercise, as hairs and small particles of dirt from the dog's skin can enter the nasal and oral cavities when breathing. Patients who are allergic, and even more so idiosyncratic (intolerant) to dog hair, need to be especially careful!

By the way, if you have barley (pisyak) or conjunctivitis, then it is useful to let the dog lick your sore eyes. Dogs are surprisingly effective at licking all sorts of inflammations, after two or three sessions of such therapy, as a rule, everything is on the mend.

For right-sided ear pain, toothache, inflammation of the trigeminal nerve

Press the right side of the head tightly to the dog. This exercise is indicated for headaches localized mainly on the right side of the head, as well as for ear pains (in the case of acute inflammatory disease of the right ear). In addition, this procedure is effective in right-sided trigeminalgia (inflammation of the trigeminal nerve, accompanied by pain), as well as in acute toothache - if the diseased tooth (teeth) is on the right side of the lower or upper jaw.

For headaches, osteochondrosis of the cervical vertebrae, hypertension

We firmly press the back of the head to the calmly lying dog (in the further description of the exercises, just to the dog). To perform this procedure, the patient will have to lie down or get on all fours - as it is more convenient to whom. Of course, if the dog is small, then it is advisable to simply apply it to the sore spot (like a cat during a feline therapy session).

This procedure is indicated for headaches, localized mainly in the occipital part of the head, as well as osteochondrosis of the cervical vertebrae and arterial hypertension. The high effectiveness of such an exercise is manifested in neuropsychiatric disorders and diseases, including such common ones as neuroses and insomnia.

Press the frontal and temporal parts of the head tightly to the dog. This procedure is indicated for headaches localized in the corresponding parts of the head, and, as in the previous exercise, for arterial hypertension, osteochondrosis of the cervical vertebrae and various neuropsychiatric disorders.

According to research, people who keep houses live four to five years longer than those who do not have a pet. Both adult dogs and small puppies are excellent at relieving nervous tension, which can aggravate a number of health problems. Simply stroking the animal's body, fingering fur, or playing with the dog can lift the owner's mood, lower heart rate, relieve muscle tension, improve digestion, and lower blood cholesterol. The owner, interacting with the dog, no longer has a headache, the general tone improves.

The dog needs daily walks outside. Perhaps in cold weather this does not please the owners too much, but regular stay in the fresh air is useful not only for the dog, but also for humans. Walking strengthens the immune system, and active games with a four-legged friend allow the muscles to receive the necessary load, which is especially important for people leading a predominantly sedentary lifestyle.

Japanese scientists analyzed the situation in the country and found that the presence in the house is great for insomnia. Both a large shaggy dog \u200b\u200band a miniature dog are able to normalize their owner's sleep even better than other skilled "healers" - cats.

For the best sleep, the dog should not be taken to bed with you, but equipped with a bed near the owner's bed.

Dogs are capable of not only treating diseases, but also preventing them. In the UK and the USA, scientists and dog handlers have come to grips with raising dogs for people suffering from epilepsy. Dogs know how to calculate an attack a few minutes before its onset. If the owner did not manage to take action, they will substitute their own back for the falling owner so that he does not hurt himself.

Kanistherapy

In recent decades, canistherapy is gaining popularity - a method of treatment and rehabilitation with the help of specially trained dogs. This type of therapy is often used to treat mental illness. Dogs can help the patient to develop mental and emotional abilities, social adaptation, and also in the correction of motor functions.

Canistherapy was used back in the time of Hippocrates, but this technique was forgotten, and interest in it arose only in the second half of the XX century.

Most often, dogs are used to treat children, but canistherapy is also used with adult patients. In particular, incurable patients cope better with their condition and experience all stages of grief if they have a faithful and loving four-legged doctor next to them.

Dumb animals cannot complain of illness and name the symptoms of the disease. But the attentive owner immediately notices that the pet is unwell.

Apathy, dry nose, shortness of breath, diarrhea or vomiting are visible signs of the disease. So, you should contact a veterinarian. Diseases of dogs and their signs in a detailed review below.

Timely diagnosis is the beginning of a successful treatment. All dog diseases are divided into:

Attention!Some of the diseases in dogs can be dangerous to humans.

Diseases of dogs and their signs and treatment

Among the huge variety of ailments that a four-legged pet can be exposed to, we distinguish two main groups:

• dangerous to humans;
• common.

Infectious diseases dangerous to humans

What diseases can you get from a dog? These are invasive and infectious diseases, their source is most often stray animals.

Threats are infections:

1. ... The causative agent, entering the human blood after a bite of a sick animal through saliva that has entered the wound, causes severe damage to the central and peripheral nervous system, including the brain. The incubation period lasts from 2 weeks to 3 months, the 2nd, manic stage - 2-4 days, death occurs in severe agony, but with a clear consciousness. In case of suspicious contact, immediately contact the clinic - after the incubation period has expired, rabies is not treated. The best prevention method is animal vaccination.
2. . Infection with microscopic fungi. They are highly resistant to thermal and disinfecting effects and remain in the external environment for a long time. On the skin, more often on the head and neck, there appear small, hairless, rounded spots covered with gray scales. In advanced cases, the spots spread over the body into large areas. Prevention consists in timely isolation and treatment, avoiding contact with sick animals, disinfection of care items and premises. Peeled off crusts and hair should be burned.
3. (infectious jaundice). Dogs and humans can become infected after eating untreated meat or swimming in contaminated water. Symptoms - fever, hemorrhagic enteritis, jaundice, nervous disorders, rapid weight loss, bleeding areas in the mouth with a putrid odor. When healed, paresis, chronic nephritis and indigestion may remain forever.

Important! The best prevention is hygiene and the destruction of rodents, which can be lifelong leptospirosis.

Attention! To avoid infection, do not feed your pet raw meat products without a veterinary sanitary examination.

Most frequent

These diseases require a quick response. They are most common, difficult to treat and even in case of recovery, they can leave the animal disabled. How do you know if your dog is sick?

Important! Vaccinate your pet in a timely manner.

Modern veterinary medicine has stepped far forward, and in the case of vaccination, you will not need to suffer and lament about what was not done, seeing the torment of the pet

If a four-legged friend loses hair

Hair loss in a dog: a description of the disease, treatment depends on the causes of this phenomenon, there are two main ones:

• hormonal disorders;
• skin pathologies.

Hormonal disorders there are the following:

• an excess of the hormone cortisol ();
• excess or lack of estrogen;
• lack of thyroid hormones.

Hair loss in dogs may be a consequence:

We hope that after reading this article, you will be more attentive to your pet. After all, the one who is warned is armed. Remember: understanding the problem and providing first aid on time can save his life.

Also check out a short video on canine diseases and their symptoms: