Adder bite to dog

[Mike B]

I don't want to be a kiljoy but should you be walking your dog where all types of games are played, particularly where the person may fall to the ground?

All dog faeces contain bacteria that can cause stomach upsets if ingested. However, the greatest risk to human health from dog faeces is toxocariasis, an infection of the round worm Toxocara canis, a zoonotic disease that is spread via dog faeces. Young children in particular are at risk due to their weaker immune systems and because they are more likely to expose themselves by ingesting the eggs. A puppy can pass as many as 15,000 eggs per gram of faeces, and they are a major source of environmental contamination.
These are passed out when the dog defecates and can survive for up to three years in soil. After two to three weeks of warm weather the eggs develop into an embryo state, containing larva - this is when they become infective to dogs and people.
The larvae try to migrate through the human body as they would in a dog's, but the human body treats them as foreign material, which causes a reaction and tissue damage.
There are two types of toxocariasis: visceral larva migrans (VLM) and ocular larva migrans (OLM).
In VLM, the larvae reach the liver, causing inflammation and symptoms such as abdominal pain and pyrexia. Most people recover spontaneously. OLM occurs when a migrating larva reaches the eye. It causes a granuloma to form on the retina, causing significant visual impairment and in severe cases even blindness.
Even though responsible owners may pick up their dog's faeces, small amount will remain in the grass and enter the soil.
A case occurred on a football field in Blackpool where a young man lost his eye-sight.

[chellie]

thanks for the comments and support he is now on priton as well bless him and slowly continuing to recover.
As for the comment that should we be using the same field as sports players and children, dog's have been using this field long before the sports took over and I accept that this doesnt give us the over all right to continue to use it but it is also a public right of way.
And I understand what you are saying about dogs mess, but you could just as easily fall in some on the roads and pathways when left by uncaring owners.
As for the comment you made about the terrible illnesses from dog mess I accept that this can happen and does happen but rarely and so long as the dog is vacinated and wormed this should lessen the chance of infection's being passed on.

[aland]

Hi, the decease mentioned by [mike b] is no doubt bad but what we have to remember is that hundreds of thousands of children are exposed to dogs in there own homes, gardens, in the streets etc, the odds of catching these terrible illnesses are extremely low, luckily we only hear of a case once in a blue moon but this does not take away the terror of becoming blind like that, there are people that cannot give a damn about picking up the mess left by their dogs and it does not sink in to them how serious it can be, It is a shame if perfectly responsible owners should lose any rights to walk dogs in places that they have been doing so for years, after all a lot of dogs are acquired for family pets for children etc, aland.