There are many parasites, such as toxoplasma, fleas, pruritus mites, tapeworms, etc., these common parasites are the main cause of cat disease, today we will talk about the harm of common parasites to cats.
Toxoplasma gondii, also known as rubella virus, is a very common parasitic disease.
Once infected with the virus, cats can experience a variety of symptoms, the most common are vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite and even anemia. And toxoplasma is also very harmful to the human body, can cause pregnant women to miscarry or fetal abnormalities.
Fleas are one of the most common and cunning parasites.
Under normal circumstances, it will be parasitic in the cat’s body, causing various skin diseases, and may also carry a variety of bacteria and viruses. Once infected, fleas are difficult to cure and can affect your cat’s health.
flea
Fleas are parasitic parasites. It is parasitic on the cat’s body, sucking the cat’s blood for a living, making the cat appear fever, skin itching, red rash and other symptoms, and even lead to death in severe cases. Fleas breed quickly and can number up to 100,000 on an adult cat.
When you find that your cat has a large flea, the first thing you should do is check your home’s environmental hygiene. If you have a pet dog at home, you should pay attention to whether the dog also has fleas. If both cats and dogs have fleas, it is necessary to consider whether the skin disease is caused by fleas.
When deworming cats, choose a deworming drug suitable for your cat, and do not use human deworming drugs. Because it is difficult to grasp the dosage of deworming drugs, it is easy to appear symptoms such as poisoning; And many people use deworming drugs that contain hormones and various chemicals, which are not suitable for cats.
Psoroptes auris
Otopruritus, also known as ear mites, is a very common parasite. The main characteristic of cats infected with Pruritus mites is that they often have bloody discharge in their ears, and they also have some painful symptoms. After the cat’s ear is infected with pruritus mites, it will not only cause the cat’s ears to itch, but also cause some skin problems, such as itching, redness, and hair loss.
Some owners may think that the ear pruritus mite is a minor disease, but in fact, after the infection of this parasite, if not treated in time, it will endanger the life of the cat. Therefore, the owner should take the cat to the pet hospital for examination and treatment when it is just infected.
Daily cat owners should pay more attention to the cleaning of the cat’s ears, which can help it keep its ears clean and odorless. At the same time, pay attention to observe whether there is an abnormal situation in its ear canal, and if the problem is found, it will be treated in time.
tick
The tick is a small parasite, adults mainly parasitic on the body surface of cats, dogs and other animals, their volume is less than 3 mm, look like beans. But ticks also carry the risk of spreading disease.
After a tick bite, itchiness, swelling, rash, fever and other symptoms can occur. After being bitten by a tick, pay attention to the reaction of the cat, if there is fever, fatigue and other conditions, it is best to take it to the hospital for examination.
When owners find a tick on their cat, they can shave and disinfect it first. Then spray your cat with some dewormer (like Bayer); Then use tweezers to slowly remove the tick.
Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasma is also very harmful to people, especially pregnant women infected, more likely to cause miscarriage or fetal abnormalities.
- For cats, after the cat is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, the owner needs to deworm it in time and disinfect the cat’s living environment regularly.
2, when the shovel officer feeds the cat cat food, it is best to put the cat rice away from the place where they eat, to avoid the cat to eat.
3, shovel poop officer to regularly deworming the cat, generally once every 2 months. In addition to food, Toxoplasma infection can also be avoided through external deworming.
4, when feeding the cat food, try not to give it raw meat food, so easy to bring parasites into the body, resulting in toxoplasma gondii.
5, shovel poop officials should pay attention to the food hygiene of the cat, do not feed raw meat and other food.
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