Ticks are small arachnoid insects who eat blood of animals. A large number of infectious diseases can be transmitted through a sting of these parasites. The most easy mark of a tick are cats and dogs who often walk on the street during the summer period of time. After such walks the body of the pet needs to be examined carefully regarding appearance of parasites. In need of a tick it is always possible to take in house conditions.
It is required to you
- Tools for removal of pincers, bank with alcohol, disinfecting ointment with antibiotics, spray with a hydrocortisone
Instruction
1. Safely to remove a tick at a cat, it is necessary to use special tools. The main thing is not to crush a body of a parasite as in this case harmful bacteria can get to blood of an animal.
2. Tools for removal of pincers usually are divided into two views: so-called "nail-catchers" and "handles with a lasso" (handles with a loop on the end). If you have no similar tools, you can use make-shifts: thin fishing line, thread or usual tweezers. Operation on removal of a tick needs to be performed in rubber gloves as the infection which is in an organism of an insect can easily get to you through skin.
3. To take a parasite, hook on his head and it is accurate, without sharp movements extend it from skin of an animal. It is not necessary to twist a tick in the course of extraction.
4. Do not try to banish a tick, oiling the place of a sting on a body of a cat, alcohol or kerosene. These substances affect a parasite as irritants and stimulate him to enter into a wound more saliva with pathogenic microbes.
5. After you remove a tick, do not try to wash away him in a toilet bowl. It is useless as the parasite all the same will survive. To destroy an insect, he needs to be placed in bank with alcohol.
6. The wound which was left by a tick on a body of a cat needs to be cleaned and processed disinfectants. For this purpose best of all ointments with antibiotics will approach.
7. Do not get a tick barehanded at all. These insects can be carriers of such diseases, dangerous to the person, as encephalitis, borreliosis, Lyme's disease. The remains of the crushed parasite are also a potential source of infection.
8. If you noticed that the cat around a sting had an inflammation, apply on this place a little spray with a hydrocortisone. This means very well helps to remove irritation from affected areas of skin. Full healing of a wound from a sting will follow in 2 weeks.
9. Sometimes after a sting of a parasite on a body of a cat there are a scar or a high temple. Such damages are caused, as a rule, by pathogenic saliva of a tick.
10. To secure the cat against stings of pincers during the summer period, it is necessary to process her leather special medicines. Today there is a large number of various drops and shampoos from parasites. Drops most often use for treatment and cleaning of ears of an animal as in this place ticks like to accumulate. However there are also such medicines which the cat can just pour out on withers. Veterinarians often recommend to use them.