Some time ago such disease as a piroplasmosis which is transferred by ixodic pincers was dangerous only to dogs. However not so long ago there was not less widespread also a causative agent of a piroplasmosis, dangerous only for cat family predators. How seriously for a cat this disease?
Every year with the first solar days pincers become more and more active. These disgusting blood-sicking insects are carriers of such dangerous diseases threatening with full loss of working capacity and even death as tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme's disease. However pincers can be dangerous not only to the person, but also to animals. Domestic cats often are infected by them with a piroplasmosis.
Piroplasmosis at a cat: symptoms
The piroplasmosis is a parasitic disease of warm-blooded animals at which the microscopic organism through a wound from a sting of a tick gets to blood. He actively breeds in erythrocytes that involves their mass death and the most severe intoxication of an organism of a cat. Without treatment the animal is doomed to death.The main symptoms of infection with a piroplasmosis at cats are: - increase in body temperature up to 41 °C; - apathy, refusal of a forage or just small appetite; - change of normal color of urine on red-brown; - yellowish or just pale color of mucous. Emergence of two and more symptoms has to force the owner of a cat to suspect at it a piroplasmosis and to address urgently to veterinary clinic to make the test of peripheral blood of an animal. Agree with the laboratory assistant about that the analysis was made urgently even if at additional expense – if your cat has actually a piroplasmosis, then the account goes for hours.
Treatment of a piroplasmosis at cats
If results of analyses confirm the diagnosis ""piroplasmosis"" at an animal, then the cat needs to be treated. Therapy is appointed by the veterinarian and first of all is directed to destruction of a pathogenic microorganism in animal blood. These are injections, and they are rather toxic therefore for removal of intoxication and maintenance of an organism of a cat droppers are appointed. It is the best of all to prevent a possibility of infection and not to let out a cat on the street. If it is impossible, then periodically process wool of your favourite the means which are frightening off ticks, for example, sprays and drops. Do not neglect purchase for the cat walking on the street, a qualitative collar which will frighten off parasites. For several months before summer a cat it is possible to impart from a piroplasmosis that does not guarantee that infection will not occur, but will absolutely allow to avoid a lethal outcome.