When the cat is sick, she will be very wary of people. On the one hand, she is afraid that her master will abandon her. On the other hand, she will read misfortune from your eyes, so she will find a quiet and undisturbed place to heal. Don't take her directly to the doctor, she will think that you will abandon her or hurt her, which may aggravate her condition. You can consult a doctor yourself, tell the doctor how old your cat is, what symptoms it has, how long it has been, carefully recall the first time you found the problem, so as to trace the possible reasons, and then consider treatment according to the doctor's advice.
If you want to have an infusion bottle, you'd better do it at home, and veterinarians usually treat dogs, so he will ignore some cat personality problems. If you want an injection or a transfusion, no matter how good your cat is at ordinary times, as long as he is energetic, you should wear gloves (they have special ones) and let the doctor tell you how to treat the cat. My cat is usually docile. As a result, he bit my father's hand thoroughly during the injection, and the doctor also told us to wear gloves and how to fix the cat.
Like your cat, although it doesn't eat, it can still fall asleep, which shows that it is fighting the disease. If he doesn't even sleep, it means he is in too much pain now. I suggest you find out the cause of his illness as soon as possible. Vomiting alone can't explain what it is.
1. Toxoplasma gondii in cats
Pathogen: The disease is zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii parasitizing on cat cells.
Symptoms: Cats infected as intermediate hosts have acute and chronic symptoms.
Acute type: sick cats have fever, and their body temperature is often above 40℃. Poor spirit, anorexia, lethargy
, difficulty breathing. Vomiting and diarrhea sometimes occur. Pregnant cats will have stillbirths and miscarriages.
Chronic type: loss of appetite, emaciation and anemia, and sometimes nervous system symptoms. Pregnant cats also have miscarriages and stillbirths. If the cat is infected as a confirmed host, the symptoms are mild and the performance is mild.
Diarrhea.
Prevention and treatment: ① Keep the cat house clean and sanitary, deal with the cat's excrement in time, disinfect regularly, and strictly disinfect the aborted fetus, excrement and aborted parts of the cat to prevent environmental pollution.
② For drug treatment, sulfadiazine can be taken orally, four times a day, with body weight10 mg/kg; Or pyrimethamine 1mg/kg body weight, once a day 1 time for 7 days.
This disease can be transmitted to people, so people should pay attention to their own protection.
2. Cat ascariasis
Pathogen: The disease is a nematode disease characterized by diarrhea and emaciation, which is caused by Toxoplasma felis and Toxoplasma lionaceus parasitizing the small intestine of cats.
Symptoms: Larval migration can cause peritonitis, parasitic pneumonia, liver injury and encephalomyelitis. Adults parasitize in the small intestine to seize nutrients, causing serious mechanical stimulation to the intestine, which can cause intestinal bleeding, digestive dysfunction, vomiting and diarrhea.
, slow development, abdominal swelling; When ascaris lumbricoides parasitizes too much, it may cause intestinal obstruction. Ascaris can secrete a variety of toxins, which can cause nervous system symptoms and allergic reactions.
Prevention and control: ① Pay attention to the cleanliness of environment, utensils and food, and regularly deworm kittens.
② Please refer to Canine Ascariasis for deworming.
3. Cat hookworm disease
Pathogen: It is a parasitic disease caused by hookworm parasitic in the small intestine of cats.
Symptoms: digestive dysfunction, alternating diarrhea and constipation, bloody stool or black and oily stool, loss of appetite, sometimes vomiting, heterosexuality, physical decline, emaciation, anemia, and serious symptoms.
Causing coma and death.
Prevention and treatment: ① Keep the cat house clean and sanitary, clean up the feces in time and use disinfectant.
Often spray the cat's playground to kill the larvae, and regularly deworm the cat. ② Levamisole can be taken orally 10 mg/kg body weight 1 time; Or use 10 mg of thiabendazole.
/kg body weight, 1 oral; Or use pesticide (ivermectin) 0.3mg/kg body weight, subcutaneous injection.
4. Cat sarcoidosis
Pathogen: This disease is mainly a parasitic disease caused by the parasitism of the cat's dorsal anal mite on the cat's skin.
Symptoms: The disease mainly occurs in the ears, face, eyelids and neck of cats. Severe itching, depilation, redness, rash nodules and yellow scab on the affected surface. In severe cases, the skin becomes thick and cracked. Sometimes the lesion site is secondary to bacterial infection and purulent.
Prevention and treatment: Please refer to dog sarcoidosis.
5. Early acariasis
Pathogen: This disease is a parasitic disease caused by mite parasitizing the skin of cat ears.
Symptoms: The sick cat is fidgety, shaking its head, itching, scratching with its paws, ear inflammation.
, hematoma or allergic reaction, exudate outflow, thick brown-black scab skin can be seen in the external auditory canal.
Prevention and treatment: See dog ear itch acariasis.
6. Flea disease
Pathogen: Cat flea disease is an ectoparasitic disease caused by Chlamydia felis parasitizing on the cat's body surface. This flea is also parasitic on dogs and people.
Symptoms: As fleas bite and suck blood, they secrete toxins at the same time, which will affect blood coagulation, cause strange itching, interfere with sleep and rest, and make sick cats fidget, which will seriously affect their physique for a long time.
Prevention and treatment: Please refer to flea disease in dogs.
7. Salivary secretion
Hypersalivation is a clinical symptom of excessive salivation, involuntary outflow, forelimb pollution and rapid weight loss in cats. Mostly caused by oral diseases, systemic diseases and toxic diseases.
[etiology]
The causes of salivation are complex and diverse, and it is difficult to enumerate. The main factors are described as follows:
1 stomatitis, pharyngitis, esophageal foreign body, gastritis, tonsillitis, submandibular gland cyst, salivary adenitis, etc. can all lead to salivation; Lip, tongue, pharynx paralysis, jaw injury, etc. It can also cause salivation; Epilepsy, spasm and shock can also cause salivation.
Drug allergy, rodenticide, home medication and spoiled food poisoning are also common salivation.
Cats suffering from diseases such as leukopenia and individual intestinal parasitic diseases can also cause salivation.
[symptoms]
Clear saliva. Such as water sample, slightly sticky, flowing out of the mouth, unable to autonomously, or yellowish or slightly white bubbles due to different complications. Saliva moistens lips, nose, forelimbs and sleeping environment. It is accompanied by symptoms such as not eating, less exercise and rapid weight loss. Because of different diseases, we often see the typical symptoms of primary disease in clinic.
[diagnosis]
According to the clinical characteristics of salivation, combined with the medical history and the characteristics of primary disease, it is not difficult to make a diagnosis If you want to find out the primary disease, you can borrow the rib laboratory for further diagnosis.
[therapy]
Principle: On the basis of actively finding the cause, the principle of combining primary disease treatment with symptomatic treatment is adopted.
1 Before the cause is determined, atropine 0.03-0.05 ml/kg body weight can be injected subcutaneously to reduce saliva loss.
2. Detailed diagnosis, find out the cause, and root treatment. For example, rodenticides, household drugs and food poisoning should be treated with specific antidotes. If there is no specific antidote, 5% glucose solution and a small amount of cardiotonic diuretics should be infused intravenously. If it is caused by epilepsy, spasm, shock, etc. Sedatives such as phenytoin sodium, antiepileptic, diazepam and chlorpromazine can be used. If it is secondary to other diseases, comprehensive treatment can be carried out according to the primary disease.
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