Mao children are a family member for a lifetime, and it is the responsibility of the owner to protect the health of the family. Because parasites are very easy to carry germs, causing a fatal crisis for hairy children. Prevention is better than treatment, the owner can choose a qualified insect repellent according to the advice of the doctor, develop the habit of regularly deworming the hairy child, and protect the health of the hairy child from the invasion of germs.
Common parasites can be divided into parasites whose host is cats and dogs, as well as ectoparasites and in vivo parasites; Among them, ectoparasites not only infest cats and dogs, but even people may become hosts or even infected.
The major diseases concerning the characteristics and derivation of ectoparasites (fleas and ticks) are as follows:
Fleas are small, good at jumping, easy to hide and not easy to detect, once successfully parasitic will begin to bite the hairy child, making the hairy child skin allergies, causing skin diseases.
If cats and dogs eat fleas by mistake after licking and swabing, they may also be infected with diseases such as insects and cat scratching fever, which are common to all animals and animals, and if the owner is scratched by the cat, he will also be infected.
It is worth noting that each female flea can lay 40 to 50 eggs a day, because fleas from flea eggs to flea only 3 weeks, every summer will accelerate growth, flea eggs in the cold winter will only enter the sleep state, and eventually the bedding, pillows and even dolls at home will become flea habitat, which is difficult to remove.
Ticks to suck blood for food, mainly hidden in grass, ditches and cement cracks, through the tick infection of the disease are Lyme disease, scorch worm disease and Ehrlich syndrome, etc., if unfortunately infected with scorched worms, will parasitize on the dog red blood cells and be destroyed, so that the dog anemia and anorexia, although the symptoms are not easy to detect, but it is a deadly blood parasitic disease, treatment is not easy, the disease is lifelong with the original, immunity decline when there is a possibility of recurrence, have to prevent.
The common anthelmintic drugs on the market are divided into three types of oral, drop and injection.
Injections can prevent canine heartworms, one dose per year can be applied, the disadvantage is to prevent a single disease, so many owners will switch to oral or drop repellent drugs.
Summer everything is full of vitality, but also the season of rampant breeding of parasites, remind the owner, dogs and cats common parasites are different, each brand of deworming drugs will distinguish between dog and cat dosage forms, can not be used together, it is recommended that owners can seek pet doctor advice, assist in selecting qualified products, and according to the size of the hair child to choose the dose, develop regular drug application habits, to help the hair child grow up healthily.