How to diagnose diseases of cats

How to diagnose diseases of cats

Diseases of cats can differ on degree of complexity and origin. Generally there are several groups of cat's illnesses: viral infections, skin diseases, injuries, digestive tract diseases. Depending on the correct diagnosis of a disease, treatment methods are also applied. In a case with cats, treatment needs to be begun immediately.

Instruction

1. The only method allowing to protect cats from sharp viral infections and diseases is vaccination. Viruses are dangerous that, as a rule, such diseases come to an end with death. It is possible to determine viral infections by a state mucous as, for example, at cat's flu, enteritis and clamidiosis. If the cat began to sneeze or cough or, on the contrary, she has a dehydration, these are symptoms of a viral disease.

2. You monitor work of digestive tract of a cat. Any changes in a chair have to guard the owner. If at a cat a diarrhea, it does not mean that she is badly fed. Such symptom can be symptom of intestinal poisoning that in itself at the correct treatment it is terrible. And can be the cause of defeat of an organism internal parasites, or be the cause of an infection. If at the same time there is a strong increase in a stomach because of blow-up of a belly wall, most likely, it is cat's infectious peritonitis. In this case, it is necessary to deliver a cat immediately in a vetklinik. In general all diseases of digestive tract demand expeditious diagnostics and treatment.

3. The most horrible disease which is transmitted from cats to the person – rage. Against it it is necessary to vaccinate annually a cat is the only method to save her from a disease. The sharp aggressive behavior of a cat is considered the first symptom of infection with rage. She can rush about on the apartment, is unexpected attack the person and other animals. Later the agony begins, there is a foam from a mouth, paralysis develops. In case of diagnosing of rage the cat needs to be lulled.

4. Skin diseases often affect cats who have access to walks on streets. Such animals are subject to infection with external parasites – fleas, ticks. Infection occurs during the spring and summer period. You can notice that the cat began a thicket to scratch in a back and a nape. When combing it is possible to find black grains of a flea dung. And on skin there can be small red specks from stings. Surely wash a sick cat with special shampoo against parasites. In 5-7 days after bathing, process hair of a cat insektoakaritsidny drops and put on an antiflea collar. If the cat is tormented by a tick, she combs and tries to bite one certain place on skin. Or often scratches an ear and pulls of the Scheme of removal of a tick at a cat similar to removal of a tick from a human body. But on an animal it is more difficult to make it therefore bring a cat to the veterinarian.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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