Often food about the diseases of dogs, but cats do not rightly ignore attention, you need to correct this defect. A few days ago I met an interesting cat, Which had several diseases and one of them - a cat's ear mites, you can see it in the first photo at the beginning of the post.
It is interesting that the animal is about 5 years old and all this time the owners thought that it had just dirty ears. Indeed, the cat's ear mite can be confused with ordinary dirt.
Symptoms
The cat's ear mite is affected not only by cats, the correct name for this disease is otodectosis, it can catch a dog, fox, ferret and other animals, but for a person it is not dangerous. But for some reason the cat's ear tick is more common in cats, especially at a young age.
The most common symptoms with a feline ear mite are as follows:
1. Dirty ears. If you look into the auricle of a sick cat, you might think that it is specially poured into the ear of the earth. Also you can see dry black crusts. And another important point, when you have cleaned your ear, and it shines and shines, that it's not disgusting to kiss yourself, but a few days later there was dirt again - it can talk about otodectosis. The parasite quickly multiplies and it turns out approximately the same picture as in this photo.
2. Combing. An animal with a cat's ear mite is constantly worried, shakes its head, scratches and scratches the ear. Often you can find the wounds on the back of the auricle.
3. Sometimes the cat feels so much itching that it can damage the vessels of the ear with a paw and it will be bruised, just like this poor fellow.
Then you will need to get rid of not only the tick, but also treat the hematoma, which is not very simple.
4. It happens that the mite is attached pathogenic microflora. In this case pus can leak pus, we will also find a not very pleasant smell and squelching sound, when squeezing the base of the auricle.
5. In some cases, you see that the ear is completely stuck, and the cat does not even itch, rarely, but maybe that's it. Perhaps the animal adapts to the parasite and a certain balance is established.
6. The most accurate sign, the fact that an animal has a cat's ear tick - is the detection of the pathogen. Many imagine this parasite as large, confusing it with an ixodid tick, which is often found on a dog, by the way spring has already come, so it will not be superfluous to remember about pyroplasmosis, read here .
So, Otodectes cynotis - so cleverly called a cat's ear mite, not a large size on average 0.5 mm, females are much larger than males. Such handsome men live in the ear of a sick animal.
To detect the parasite, scrape is done and examined under a microscope.
If you have good eyesight, you can look closely and discover the pathogen without an armed eye. To do this, you need to gently remove a little dirt from your ear and toss over a piece of paper. And then carefully observe and look for small white grains that move slowly. But I think it's better not to strain your eyes, but take a microscope or at least a magnifying glass in order to take a close look.
How to catch
Most often, young animals are infected with a cat's ear mite from their mother or peers, during direct contact. Among adult cats, the incidence is much lower, but they are also sick.
An adult mite does not differ in vitality, if it falls outside the confines of the cozy ear, it dies, but still can survive for several weeks, at a temperature of 4-7 C0. Therefore, the probability of recharge, without direct contact, is quite real.
For example, if you lend someone a pooh or a toy, you can bring your kitty as a gift to the parasite.
Some literary sources say that flies or their eggs can carry flies and fleas. So, do not be surprised if your cat is sitting at home, and he found a cat's ear tick.
Treatment
I think it makes no sense to give you the names of specific drugs, because they often change, there are new, more effective, or people just decided to earn extra money and invented the old means a new name.
And that the most dangerous, you can do harm, having begun treatment independently. For example, if the mite simply parasitizes a tick, then we need acaricidal drugs (killing mites), and if a bacterial complication has already begun, then we add antibiotics. If the complication is the simplest fungi, then treatment according to the third scheme.
Even a doctor can not get a precise diagnosis, without special studies, only presumably. And it happens that no one lives in the ear, but the owner ruses to eradicate the cat's ear mite.
I better tell you about the principles of treatment. When the diagnosis is made, the ear is cleaned of contamination, it is better if the veterinarian does this first time, or at least will tell in detail how to do it. When otodectomy, the ear becomes heavily polluted and there is a risk, with inept cleaning, to make a cork.
Then the auricle is treated with acaricidal agents, which are released in the form of drops, suspension or aerosol. The treatment is repeated at intervals according to the instruction.
Also in parallel or instead of local treatment of the ear, you can use drops on the withers. Then the substances penetrate the auricle and kill the parasites. But in this case, always consult a specialist so as not to poison the cat. In some cases, when purulent otitis develops, antibiotics must be used.
Conclusion
So, we talked about how dangerous the feline ear mite is, and now we can draw conclusions. In the first, it itches very much, imagine in your ear a horror as it scales and there are no fingers, so it's normal not to scratch. During itching, the animal traumatizes itself, as I said it leads to extensive wounds and hematomas.
The second danger is that the mite opens the gates to other guests, bacteria, viruses and fungi. With a complicated form of otodectosis, when the pus flows from the ear, the inflammatory process can spread to the middle, inner ear, go further and hook the meninges. This sad scenario usually ends badly.
Therefore, friends, the cat's ear mite only seems harmless and it is better to get rid of it at the very beginning of the disease. As usual, I will be happy with your comments, questions and wishes.
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