There is an opinion that rats are not susceptible and extremely hardy to anything. It's not true. And concerning decorative rats – especially. They are extremely sensitive and predisposed to a number of diseases. Owners of decorative rats should learn to make independently the right diagnosis (if nearby there is no expert – the doctor-ratologa) and to know ways of treatment at least of the diseases which are most extended among rats.
Instruction
1. Mikoplazmozochen a widespread illness at rats. Its most frequent reason – presence at the upper airways of decorative rats of a microorganism of Mycoplasma pulmonsis causing different types of mycoplasmoses. This microorganism is characteristic an inactive state i.e. when everything is all right, it does not prove in any way and does not do any harm to a rat. But the slightest decrease in immunity provokes Mycoplasma pulmonsis to activation. Secondary infections, stresses, the wrong contents or the wrong feeding can serve as the reasons of decrease in immunity. Mycoplasmosis can be determined by characteristic pokhryukivaniye, clang, heavy, with whimpers, to breath and frequent chikhanye of a rodent.
2. Treatment of mycoplasmosis, as well as any infectious disease, is carried out with application of antibiotics. Use of macroleads (azithromycin, a tilozin), tetracyclines (doxycycline, an oksitetraktsiklin), linkozamid (lincomycin) will approach. Try not to resort to the help of antibiotics of penicillinic group since decorative rats have hypersensibility to them (the severe allergy can begin). The course of treatment antibiotics – (not less), however, will be better 14 days if you increase this period up to 21 or even 35 days. If you stop treatment after 4-5 days (you will consider that felt better a rat), then you turn the ward in the chronicle. During treatment the supporting therapy – use of various immunomodulators is necessary. For example, tsikloferona, fosprenila, gamavit, likopid. It is possible to try to give a little warm "live" kefir.
3. Allocations porfirinachasto owners of decorative rats are frightened, having noticed that from eyes and a nose of an animal blood flows …. It is not blood. It is porphyrine – secretion of garderovy (hardarianovy) gland. Allocations of dark red color report that to your pet it is uncomfortable. Perhaps, he has a stress (after bathing which he does not love an unfamiliar situation, transportation, loud sounds, noise, its excessive tiskanye in hands, etc.). To check, porphyrine it or after all blood, it is possible without efforts. Collect allocations on a cotton pad and drip hydrogen peroxide. Unlike blood, porphyrine will not be dissolved.
4. Treatment consists in providing a comfortable situation for a rodent, food which he loves vitamins and caress. If allocations do not stop, are plentiful and, in your opinion, there are no reasons for their emergence, address the veterinarian since it can be a symptom of a serious disease.
5. RaschesyEto scourge practically all decorative rats. Kind of well you looked after them, raschesa inevitably appear from time to time. In this case it is impossible to self-medicate, it is necessary to know the exact reason. The main reasons three – parasites, an allergy, a fungus.
6. Ektoparazitov at your rat can define only the doctor after scrape of skin and carrying out the analysis. If the analysis showed existence of parasites, the doctor will prescribe to you medicine which it is possible to process an animal (strictly following the instruction) at home. In the same way only the veterinarian can make prescribing of antifungal medicines (taking into account each case). You can define an allergy. If you changed filler or a forage, gave to an animal something like that that was not given before (sweets, smoked products, salinity) and soon noticed that your pet scratches (often till it bleeds), just exclude all the innovations, take a rat on a diet, return to former filler, and raschesa will quickly begin to live. The doctor can appoint the ointment removing the naggers, apply them.