Puppies can suffer from a number of different kinds of diseases as well as infections and need extreme care to keep them in good physical shape. They get affected by all sorts of organisms including parasites, protozoa, viruses, bacteria as well as fungus. Sometimes your puppy may never get healthy again if infected as some of these infestations are fatal and result in death of the animal.

The most excellent possible measure that the owner can take to safeguard the life of their puppy is to keep them clean in addition to to take them for regular medical checkups so that any disease if present can be caught early by the veterinarian as well as treated in its initial stages without causing a great deal of damage.

The diseases if prevalent for long term in a puppy can result in end organ failure as well as a number of other chronic manifestations that can be life threatening both immediately as well as in the long run. The end organ damage that can be produced by a number of illnesses in puppies which is life limiting is chronic renal failure in which the kidney function deteriorates and ultimately completely stops.

There are a lot of causes which may result in a puppy to develop kidney failure, and these causes include traumatic causes in which the kidneys are damaged because of a sharp decline in blood pressure as well as poisons, such as rat poison and a bacterial infection termed as leptospirosis. Other causes include some antibiotics as well as chemotherapeutic agents and fungal infections. The treatment and diagnosis of this disease is similar to that as in human beings. The urine analysis gives an accurate picture of the extent of damage and dialysis maybe indicated in some cases