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Supportive Care

Medical interventions aimed at relieving symptoms and maintaining bodily functions while the underlying disease runs its course.

Key Facts

Supportive care is the standard approach for managing viral illnesses that lack specific antiviral treatments.
It includes symptom management such as controlling coughing, fever, and dehydration.
Proper supportive care allows the pet's immune system the time and resources needed to clear the infection.
It prevents unnecessary antibiotic use when treating self-limiting viral conditions.

Supportive care is the primary treatment strategy for most viral infections in pets.

Using supportive care instead of antibiotics for viral illnesses helps prevent antibiotic resistance.