Spring is the peak season for infectious diseases. Infectious diseases will not only affect the health of cats, but may even threaten their lives. For multiple cat families, infectious diseases are even more of a nightmare. Infectious diseases are e...
Spring is the peak season for infectious diseases. Infectious diseases will not only affect the health of cats, but may even threaten their lives. For multiple cat families, infectious diseases are even more of a nightmare.
Infectious diseases are even more contagious.
Let's talk about common infectious diseases in cats today
Female plague, also known as cat panleoleocytopenia, is an acute and highly contact infectious disease caused by cat parvovirus.
Symptoms
After infection, the cat may experience symptoms such as listlessness, loss of appetite, fever, and other serious symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, and leukopenia.
Infection route
● Direct infection is mainly direct infection, and cats directly contact the infected cat's saliva and excrement will lead to infection.
● After the owner comes into contact with a cat with a virus, contacting the cat at home without disinfection may also lead to infection.
Care
Gastric Intestinal Care
Prepare easy-to-digest food for cats and use the feeding method of eating less and more meals. You can also appropriately supplement probiotics to your cat.
Strict isolation and environmental disinfection
Because the virus is easy to spread and has a long survival period, items used by infected cats and the environment at home need to be thoroughly disinfected.
Especially for multiple cat families, it is necessary to do a good job of isolation to avoid direct and indirect contact.
New cats are immune before entering the door
If a cat at home has been infected with cat plague, and if the family wants to "import cats" in the later stage, it is best to do it:
✅ New cats are completely immune
✅ The items of the once sick cat have been disinfected/replaced
✅ The interval reaches 1 year
Prevention:
Vaccinate the cats regularly.
Cat Nasal Branches
Cat Nasal Branches are symptoms of nasal bronchitis caused by cat herpes virus.
Symptoms
Cats may experience fever, listlessness, decreased appetite, sneezing, runny nose (clear snot turns into nasal pus), accompanied by conjunctival congestion, tears/eye discharge and other symptoms.
Infection Routes
● Cats are exposed to oral and nasal secretions or eye secretions from infected cats, and the spread of sneezing droplets will lead to infection.
● Most cats will be infected and will be carried for life. When cats are immune to decreased, stressed, or when female cats give birth, they may recur.
Maintenance
Cleaning up cat's snot and tears
It is necessary to help the cat wipe and clean the secretions from the eyes and nose in time to help maintain cleanliness.
Supplement of nutrition and moisture
Prepare easy-to-digest and nutritious foods for cats to supplement nutrition. You can provide the kitten with the food they usually like to increase the cat's appetite.
Avoid stress
Stress can cause recurrence of the disease, try to avoid changes in the environment and excessive frightening, and reduce the stress of the kitten.
Isolation and disinfection
In a multi-cat family, if a cat is diagnosed with a cat's nose, it needs to be isolated immediately to prevent infection. Completely disinfect the utensils used by infected cats and the environment at home, pay attention to the conditions of other cats in the home, and seek medical treatment in time if symptoms occur.
New cats arrive at home
✅ Since the virus will be carried for a long time, it is recommended that the cat take it home after completing its immunity.
✅ New cats are quarantined after they arrive at home to avoid stress from the indigenous cats at home.
Prevention:
Regular vaccination;
Disinfect the environment and cat utensils on a daily basis.
cat abdomen
cat abdomen, the full name is cat infectious peritonitis, which is caused by intestinal coronavirus. Cats of all ages can be infected, and they are divided into dry and wet.
Symptoms
include fever, lethargy, no appetite, weight loss, and frequent diarrhea; as the disease develops, cats with different characteristics will have different symptoms of abdominal transmission,
● Dryness will cause symptoms such as unstable walking, inflammation of the eyes, convulsions and epilepsy;
● Wetness is more common, and cats have respiratory symptoms in the early stage, accompanied by obvious effusion in the chest and abdominal cavity, and their stomachs are very swollen, which seriously hinders breathing.
Infection route
Cats contact with feces of sick cats can lead to infection, and sharing meal bowls, cat litter box, etc. may also lead to infection.
Maintenance
Diet, prepare some high-quality, easy-to-digest wet food for cats to supplement nutrition.
Pay attention to hygiene
● Pay attention to cleaning the home environment of multiple cats, change cat litter frequently, clean cat litter box regularly, and maintain hygiene.
● Avoid sharing cat litter box for multiple cats and try to avoid raising too many cats at home.
New cats enter the door
✅ New cats should be taken home after they have completed their immunization.
✅ New cats are quarantined first after they return home to avoid stress from cats or cats at home.
Prevention:
Try to avoid more cat breeding environments, and frequently clean and disinfect cat litter box.
