You have to know what diseases can happen to hamsters and that you need to undertake to the address to the veterinarian. But do not try to treat a hamster independently if he got sick. Address the expert who will correctly make the diagnosis and will manage to render to a small animal the qualified help. Different diseases can have very similar symptoms therefore it will be difficult to distinguish them to you.
Instruction
1. You will notice that your pet got sick on the following signs: ■ the hamster seeks to retire, hide, rest in bed; ■ shows, earlier not peculiar to him, aggression; ■ it is heavy, breathes; ■ lies, having closed eyes; ■ shivers a small shiver; ■ fur looks a little damp; ■ at light touch strands of wood drop out; ■ at a small animal the chair which becomes dry or liquid becomes more frequent; ■ on a hair small blood-sicking insects (fleas, louses) are noticeable.
2. As a result of a lack of vitamin D of sterns at a hamster the rickets can develop. He is generally at young hamsters. Often hamsters get sick with rickets at a lack of sunlight in the winter. The cage with a sick animal needs to be moved to the light place. On 10-15 minutes within 10-15 days irradiate a small animal with a quartz lamp. Inside give him 1-2 drops in day of a trivitamin or the trivit.
3. Diseases of the digestive system arise against the background of an infection or because of the wrong feeding of a hamster. For clarification of digestive tract of a small animal, give it one tablespoon of vaseline or castor oil. From medicines it is possible to apply levomitsetin, biomitsin, synthomycin or ftalazol (on '/, tablets 2 times a day). Instead of drink at a diarrhea give to a small animal rather weak tea or weak solution of margantsovokisly potassium, and at a lock - castor or vaseline oil.
4. "The wet tail" is the very serious disease which is often leading to the death of a small animal. It has similar symptoms with a diarrhea which can arise as reaction to introduction of a new forage, water or a stress. Signs of the desease: loss of appetite, watery diarrhea (diarrhea), irritability, rectal bleeding. Wool at a sick hamster looks tousled. At once ask for the help the veterinarian. In a case, confirmations of the diagnosis he will appoint antibiotics. If at a hamster the diarrhea began because you overfed him with green vegetables, for normalization of a chair exclude for a while from its diet fruit, green vegetables and other juicy products. Give to a hamster hay, you give to drink warm infusion of a St. John's wort, camomile or rather weak tea. It is possible to feed a hamster with boiled rice without salt and oil.
5. At detection at a hamster of worms, address at once the veterinarian who will appoint necessary medicines. Worms lead a parasitic life in intestines of small animals, absorbing nutrients that leads to organism exhaustion.
6. The causative agent of itch is the scabby tick which with the naked eye cannot be seen. Ticks are three types: kozheeda, nakozhnik and zudn. Itch distinguish the general, head and ear. This disease is infectious for the person therefore at suspicion of itch take urgent measures. Isolate a sick small animal from other animals. Its cage to a prodezinfitsiryta 4% hot solution of a caustic natr. Process the struck places on skin of a sick small animal with a 3% rastvokr of medicine SK-9, mix of 1% solution of a chlorofos with in 1% - ny solution of medicine D-33 or sulfuric ointment or. Repeat processing in 6-7 days.
7. Very probably on deprive baldness therefore surely consult the veterinarian as with the naked eye these two diseases cannot almost be distinguished from each other. Usually at the gone bald hamster skin clean and smooth, and at the diseased we deprive gradually becomes covered by scales and wounds. Baldness happens a consequence of shortage of vitamins or results from the postponed stress. If at a small animal deprive, show him to the veterinarian who will appoint special ointments for animals. Once again do not disturb the pet, do not rearrange his cage on other place. In both cases give to a hamster vitamins.
8. Inflammation of lungs and upper airways at hamsters develop at long impact of drafts and as a result of overcooling of an organism of animals. You keep a sick small animal in the warm, protect from drafts, you feed with full-fledged food. Treatment needs to be carried out under observation of the veterinarian sulfanamide medicines.
9. Sneezing of a hamster can be a symptom of an allergy or pneumonia. At suspicion on the first stop giving to a small animal a new forage if you entered it recently. Replace sawdust in a laying with paper. Quite often there is at hamsters pneumonia (pneumonia). Surely show a hamster to the veterinarian that he appointed to a small animal antibiotics — on 0.3 g to 100 ml of water of tetracycline or on 5 mg to 100 g of body weight of a levomitsetin.