Bulldogs & French Bulldogs
PREVENT & TREAT
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs are prone to a wide range of painful and debilitating breed-related medical conditions. Most can be prevented and safely treated at your home, at a minimal cost.
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs Osteosarcoma is a lytic tumor of the bone, it is aggressive, maligned, and carries a poor prognosis. The most common locations are the leg bones.
Bone tumors can lead to microfractures and be very painful, so amputation is usually recommended. Your bulldog will usually limp or be non-weight-bearing and might have swelling and edema at the affected limb.
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia (AIHA) is an immune system disease in which your bulldog’s immune system attacks and destroys its own red blood cells.
Your bulldog will become pale, weak, listless, labored breathing, and might have a low temperature.
Bulldog and French Bulldog Heartworms are transmitted by a mosquito bite; they are harmful and potentially life-threatening.
Heartworm preventives can be given annually by a single injection or monthly via the oral or topical route.
Endocarditis in bulldogs and French bulldogs is a degenerative heart disease usually of the mitral valve.
It can start with only a heart murmur and progress to coughing, exercise intolerance, fainting, and congestive heart failure
Bulldog Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) combines thinning of the heart muscle and heart chambers (left ventricle) with high blood pressure inside the heart chamber that leads to the stretching of the wall (Dilation).
Heart murmur, abnormal fast rate, and rhythm, coughing, gaging, dilated fluid-filled belly, exercise intolerance, fainting, sudden death. New research has shown that grain-free diets can lead to bulldog DCM.
Bulldog and French bulldog Aortic stenosis and subaortic stenosis (SAS) is a hereditary congenital heart disease that is rare in most breeds but common in bulldog puppies. It is a narrowing at the aortic valve of the heart.
A heart murmur on a physical exam, coughing, exercise intolerance, fainting, with time possible heart failure.
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs heart Disease can be a congenital born defect like aortic and/or pulmonary stenosis or one that is acquired at a later age like dilatative cardiomyopathy, heart base tumors, and endocardiosis.
Signs of heart disease can be coughing, lethargy, labor breathing, fainting, distended abdomen, cyanosis, and exercise intolerance.
