Is your lovely pet dog suffering from maggot wounds very often?

If your answer is yes, this article may be of help to you.

I have seen people again and again taking their dogs to vet's clinic and if you ask them what's the problem, their answer is always... oh! it is having a maggot wound. Maggoticidal creams, antiseptic dressing, antibiotics for weeks together and then after few days, another wound on yet another site.

If this is the case with you, kindly check for few things that may be there with your dog's body but not in your mind as a potential cause of maggot wounds. Sometimes there are indirect causes which may act as predisposing factors to attract flies and lead to maggot wounds.

Check your dogs for the presence of ticks or lice

Check your dogs for the presence of itch

check your dogs for the blackish or orangish coloured spots

If the ticks or lice are present, it is necessary to go for the treatment to get rid of them. You can ask for it in your vet clinic. When the ticks and lice bite on the skin, drops of blood exposed attract the flies causing those to lay countless eggs which later on come out as maggots from the holes which you come to see as wounds.

Check for the itch, it might be due to mange or mites that are microscopic, your vet will give the treatment for it eliminating another indirect etiology of maggot wounds.

Check for blackish or orangish spots on the skin, if these are not the part of skin, clean these spots these may be the chiggers. Chiggers are the plant mites that stick to the skin and may bite and result into tiny drops of blood leading to the same cycle as mentioned before.

KEEP YOUR PET AND ITS HOUSING CLEAN AND IN YOUR SUPERVISION TO AVOID MAGGOT WOUNDS

(Note: it is just an ordinary advice not a substitution to proper veterinary service, consult your vet for thorough and proper guidance)