Give 1mg of Benadryl per pound such that if your dog weighs 30 pounds, you should give it 30 mg of Benadryl. Administer the medicine three times in a day.
1 VEE infection in humans is much less severe than that of WEE and EEE. 2  While adults tend to develop a flu-like illness, children tend to develop overt encephalitis. 3  Deaths are rare in humans but are common in horses. 4  There is an effective vaccine for horses but none for humans.
In addition to encephalopathy, other common neurologic signs of ADEM include long tract pyramidal signs (decreased voluntary movement), acute hemiparesis (muscle weakness on one side of the body), cerebellar ataxia (decreased muscle coordination), and cranial neuropathies (damage of cranial nerves).