Hypodermic tick - one of the most dangerous parasites of animals and the person belonging to the category of arthropods. Disposal of it - long and persistent process. The earlier you will begin treatment, the it is more than chances of success.
Instruction
1. The disease caused by a hypodermic tick is called demodekozy. In a different way the parasite causing this disease is called a zheleznichny tick. He lives in hair of a cat, lays the eggs and carries out the courses on all body of a cat. If attentively to look at skin of an animal when on it light falls, it is possible to notice nacreous gloss of epidermis that is one of characteristic signs of existence of this tick. This parasite causes a huge considerable loss to an animal organism. The cat becomes angrier, irritable, is scratched, and at times and bites.
2. There is a lot of causes of infection of this parasite. The most widespread of them is an interaction with a sick animal. The cat can easily get sick demodekozy, communicating with other cat or a dog, and even with the person. Also transfer of a disease from an animal to the person is possible. Besides, demodekoz arises at conditions. Animals with the weakened immunity and other skin diseases are in group of the increased risk.
3. The main symptoms of a demodekoz is emergence in a cat of an intolerable itch, and subsequently - heat-spots and reddish small knots on skin. Wool at the same time drops out, and the animal often licks the struck place. When progressing a disease of bald sites on a body of a cat becomes more and more, she becomes sluggish and looks painfully. Skin becomes covered by bubbles and in some places looks as nacre. It is connected with the fact that the tick, making the courses, leaves the marks. To make sure that at your cat really demodekoz, but not any other disease, is enough to collect skin pleated and to squeeze it from all directions. As a result you will manage to pull out a tick about 0.2-0.3 mm in size with a narrow long body and four claws.
4. To begin to treat a disease it is necessary already from emergence of the first symptoms. In order that treatment took place successfully, it is necessary to cut at first completely an animal, and then to wash up it special shampoo against dermatitis and seborrhea. Then it is necessary to miss the mark all affected areas of a body with oil and to wait for its full drying. It will take 5 - 6 hours. At this time it is necessary to watch that the cat did not lick skin. Then, your cat it will be required to process medicine against a demodekoz which was appointed by the veterinarian. Treat them amitrazin, tsitioat, safroderm, an amidefir-tree gel. Depending on location of sites of defeat and effect of the medicine the doctor appoints a certain course of treatment ointment. Usually it lasts 12 - 15 days. In addition, a cat prescribe the medicine increasing immunity and also vitamins. In the period of a disease the animal needs to be fed more to restore his forces.