The long-awaited and joyful event came true - you got a kitten. But the lovely ball is dissatisfied with something, worries and often scratches ears. Existence of an ear tick is a common cause of similar behavior at kittens.
Symptoms and reasons of appearance of an ear tick
Often every second kitten acquired in a gift from the smiling aunty in the market is infected with similar trouble. It occurs at the wrong leaving and the weakened immunity at market kittens. They are forced to spend the whole day on the street in a box in the big company of the same orphans. Dealers in live goods do not care for necessary hygiene, do not change a box, and kittens till several hours are among the excrements.
Happens that the ear tick is brought at hit of dirty water to an ear of a kitten. Vagrant animals with whom the kitten had contact can be carriers of an ear tick. The ear tick is not dangerous to the person.
Besides obvious concern of a kitten in the ears, survey helps to distinguish existence of an ear tick. The ear tick in itself has the microscopic sizes, and you will be able to see only products of his activity. Take a kitten on hands and accurately turn inside out the top part of his ear that interiors were visible. Dirty-brown lumps and flakes in ears of a kitten demonstrate that the ear tick already parasitizes on your favourite. The started infection can affect a brain of cats and lead to neurosises, and in isolated cases even to death of an animal. Therefore it is necessary to begin treatment as soon as possible.
Treatment
Rubber gloves, cotton pads and sticks, polyethylene sacks and towel will be necessary for you for treatment. And also it is necessary to get special drops and hygienic ear lotion in veterinary pharmacy. Cleaning of ears for cats the procedure unpleasant. In order to avoid receiving scratches wrap a kitten in a towel as though you swaddle the child, having left only the head. Prepare all necessary and spread out at arm's length from your alleged location. Put on gloves, sit down more conveniently and put a kitten sideways to yourself on knees. Light has to fall on the left side. Wet a cotton pad hygienic lotion and carefully wipe an ear of a kitten, deleting lumps and scabs. Use also Q-tips, but do not push them in an ear at all, otherwise you can injure an auricle. Put the used disks and sticks in the prepared plastic bag which should be thrown out then at once on the street to avoid repeated infection. Take drops and dig them in external acoustical pass of an animal in a dose of 3-5 drops. Slightly massage the auricle basis. Repeat the same actions with other ear. When holding procedures tenderly talk to a kitten, as to the kid. You can even posyusyukat a little. Your voice will help to calm a kitten that considerably will facilitate cleaning of ears. For efficiency of treatment it is necessary to carry out processing of ears at an interval of 5-7 days twice. In the preventive purposes the similar procedures repeat once in 2-3 months.