Cat's health is often threatened by various infectious diseases. In particular, kitten is the most vulnerable to infection, and they will lose their lives when they are serious.
Today we will simply come to some popular diseases about cats, hoping to help everyone! Note that if the cat is suspected of being infected with infection, you must go to the hospital for testing as soon as possible and treat it as soon as possible.
1. Cat plague (FPV)
Also known as acute virus enteritis, it can cause a cat's leukocyte reduction and decrease in immunity.
Cat plague has a strong infection ability, and the infected cat needs to be isolated and disinfected.
This kind of disease is common in kittens with weak immunity. The main symptoms are high fever, severe vomiting, diarrhea dehydration, depression, loss of appetite, and extremely high mortality.
Feline coronavirus: Feline coronavirus is a kind of intestinal transmission in cats caused by an intestinal coronary virus, which mainly causes kittens to suffer from enteritis.
Symptoms: Cats have increased body temperature, decreased appetite, medium diarrhea, and anal swelling. The kitten will also vomit and the bowel movement is accelerating. In severe cases, kittens have dehydration symptoms. This disease mortality rate is generally low.
In terms of the pet recovery period, you can provide pets with low-protein, easy-to-digest, and liquid food. If pets are unwilling to eat, you can feed your pet with a syringe.
You need to feed slowly to prevent it from being stuck by food. A good nutritional supply can help pets recover faster.
2. Obesity
According to research, 40%~ 50%of cats are heavy or overweight, but many pet owners do not pay attention. They often feel that cats are fat and cute.
But if you take the cat to the hospital for examination, you will find that the cat may suffer from fatty liver or skin diseases.
3. Respiratory tract infection
Respiratory infection is one of the most common infectious diseases in cats. Some infectious diseases can be controlled by regular injections of vaccines.
Symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections include runny nose, tears, sneezing, cough, fever, etc. Most upper respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses. Once you find it, you must seek medical treatment immediately.
4. Ringworm
Ringworm is mainly a skin disease of fungal infection. Ringworm is difficult to cure, contagious, easy to attack, and can be transmitted to humans, causing itching of human skin.
If the cat has a ringworm, then its face, trunk, limbs, and tails will appear with round or oval ringworm spots. The fur of the affected area will break or fall off, which is extremely itchy.
When the owner finds that his pet has the above symptoms, he needs to use medication to treat cats in time. Due to cat ringworms being more common in cats with malnutrition and weakness, the owner can add nutrition to cats.
Especially the intake of vitamin B, which is conducive to improving pet resistance, can effectively prevent the occurrence of diseases and accelerate the healing of the disease.
At the same time, the pet breeding environment of pets needs to avoid humidity and high temperatures, and regularly do clean and disinfection of the breeding environment.