The panleukopenia known in the people as a cat's distemper, is a serious viral disease which leads 60% of sick animals to death. The disease indulges in the contact way, and mainly kittens suffer from it.
Instruction
1. Think of health of the pet in advance. The distemper hard responds to treatment therefore it is better to prevent it. There is a vaccination against panleukopenia which to your animal can be made in any veterinary clinic. The kitten needs to do the first vaccination in to increase 8 weeks, and in 12 weeks the revaccination is carried out. Further the animal needs to be vaccinated every year. Often the vaccine against a distemper is a part of complex vaccines.
2. Define disease symptoms at your cat. The animal becomes apathetic and inactive. At a distemper the cat does not eat and can even refuse water. At an animal the body temperature increases (up to 41 ° and even above) and also such symptoms of disorder of digestion as diarrhea and vomiting appear. Allocations of an animal can contain blood. Probe a stomach of the pet – at panleukopenia you will easily find the increased lymph nodes. Glance in a mouth of a cat: at a distemper the mucous membrane dries up and gets a cyanotic shade.
3. Address the veterinarian at emergence of the first disturbing symptoms. If to begin the qualified treatment at early stages of a disease, the probability of an absolute recovery of an animal is quite high.
4. Start independent treatment if you have no opportunity to address the expert, and you have some medical skills (you are able to inject). At panleukopenia carry out symptomatic treatment. At early stages of a disease to a cat enter hyperimmune serum (the dosage of medicine depends on age and the animal weight – these data can be learned from the veterinary reference book). For suppression of a bacterial infection inject antibiotics of a broad spectrum of activity. For maintenance of forces of an animal intravenously enter 5% glucose solution. For liquid loss reduction the cat is given antiemetic medicines. Besides, it is necessary to give to an animal vitamins.