Domestic cats live long and do not differ in weak health. However if the animal nevertheless felt badly, you should be engaged in his treatment. The expert will help to establish the exact diagnosis, and here you will be able independently to be engaged in nursing of a pet. Cats get to stationary conditions seldom or never. Most of them safely recovers at home.
The main thing - the diagnosis
That treatment was correct, it is very important to make the diagnosis correctly. Be not engaged in it independently, address the expert. Cats can be unwell, but not show it. To find a disease in a stage when it can be cured, pay attention to symptoms: lack of appetite, vomiting, a diarrhea, the complicated breath, faints, unusual behavior, problems with a toilet. The single refusal of food not a problem, but if the cat does not eat all day, hides, avoids a tray - it is an occasion to address the veterinarian.
Sometimes it is possible to establish the diagnosis only by means of analyses. For example, the general blood test will help to diagnose such serious illnesses as a chronic renal failure or diabetes. Detailed veterinary survey is required also at a trauma, poisoning or other accidents.
Features of treatment
When the diagnosis is established, together with the doctor develop the plan of treatment. Decide what procedures you will be able to carry out in house conditions. For example, it is quite simple to master intramuscular or subcutaneous injections or to give tablets and mixtures orally. At home it is possible to put even droppers. The veterinarian will establish a catheter which it is necessary to change every three days in a vein of an animal. At the same time such simple procedure as an enema or washings of a stomach can become the real problem for the owner. It will be better if the nurse in a vetklinik is engaged in it. Ask to specify what medicine is prescribed to a cat. Choose a suitable form of medicine. For example, if at a cat the constant vomiting, instead of tablets and drops to him is better to enter drugs hypodermically or intramuscularly.
Often together with antibiotics and other strong drugs the doctors appoint dietary supplements If you do not find it necessary to give them to the pet, it is possible to refuse such additives. But it is impossible to save on important medicines.
House hospital
Choose the convenient location for a sick animal. It can be the basket or a box laid by soft rags and waterproof diapers. They should be changed often - the unwell cat will not always be able to reach a toilet. Besides she will hardly observe hygiene - you should undertake this duty. If the animal freezes, it is possible to put under rags a hot-water bottle or a bottle with hot water. You watch that the cat did not lie on a draft - the weakened animal easily catches a cold. Do not disturb a cat, give him the chance to sleep in plenty However do not forget to do all procedures ordered by the veterinarian in time. It is very important to adjust food. If the cat does not eat more than a day, it can become a big problem. Cases when animals perished not from a disease, and for hunger are frequent. That it did not occur, the cat should be fed forcibly. Instead of a dry feed or house write with large pieces give to an animal of canned food in the form of paste. Baby meat mash - it liquid is even more convenient, the weakened cat does not need to make efforts for eating. Consider that the cat eats warmish and fresh food with bigger hunting. Put a few puree on a saucer and put on a support that the animal had not to bend.
Some sick pets prefer to eat from the owner's hands. Allow the cat this small whim.
If the cat does not eat itself, try to vypaivat him from the syringe without needle. Part baby puree with warm water and inject into a mouth of a cat in the small portions. Do not give too much food for once that the pet did not throw up. Do not offer an animal of sweet, fat and smoked dishes, it can provoke vomiting too. Except food give to a cat clear water.