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The Truth About Tick Illnesses in Pets

-Vomiting

-Regurgitation

-Unsteadiness

-High blood pressure

Fast heart rate and rhythm (tachyarrhythmias)

-Weakness, especially in the hind limbs

-Partial loss of muscle movements (paresis)

-Complete loss of muscle movement (paralysis), commonly seen in advanced disease state

-Poor reflexes to complete loss of reflex

-Low muscle tone (hypotonia)

-Difficulty in eating

-Disorder of voice (dysphonia)

-Asphyxia due to respiratory muscle paralysis in severely affected animals

-Excessive drooling (sialosis)

-Megaesophagus (enlarged esophagus)

-Excessive dilatation of pupil in the eye (mydriasis

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