Asthma and heavy breathing

Persian cats - Asthma

Asthma is the disease of respiratory system when immune system has inadequate reactionon allergy or stress. It is characterized by recurring attacks of short breath and without competent help can lead to the lethal outcome. Last time cats have asthma oftener because of cats' keeping in domestic conditions with the constant growing allergenic background. Disease can have seasonal character (pollinosis, grass pollen allergy). The veterinary must define the reason and type of the disease.

Symptoms

  • Cough, heavy breathing
  • Crepitations and whistling at breathe
  • Cyanosis of mucous tunics of mouth cavity and tongue, caused by hypoxia
  • Loss of weight and noisy heavy breathing are observed often at affection of lungs with hook-worms

Causes

  • Allergens, coming in the organism from outside (for example, pollen).
  • Domestic dust, dusty ticks and other domestic allergens.
  • Stress is the main cause of asthma.
  • Sting of wasp of bee can cause the attack of bronchial asthma.
  • Lung hook-worms. Larvas of lung hook-worms comes from the soil to snails and other whelks which are eating by birds. When cat catches and eats infected bird, hook-worms end their life cycle and fully develop in the cat's organism.

What you and veterinary can do

  • Veterinary will obligatory begins from the common checkup of the cat. First of all he must take cat's temperature and auscultate the chest with the help of phonendoscope if he suspect the infectious disease. Then he will look if lymphatic glands do not enlarged and want to make sure if the cat's voice changes what is evidence of laryngitis or affection of larynx. Probably, it will be necessary to do an X-ray.
  • If the problems are serious cat can be prescribed with bronchodilatory preparations, oxygen therapy and fast-acting steroidal agents.
  • Add to the ration of cat vitamins with anti-oxidant actions (vitamins C and E), raw meat, pot-herbs, garlic. You should to increase moisture, put cat to the bathroom filling with steam twice a day for 30 minutes.
  • Try to get rid of allergens, caused given diseases.
  • Presence of lung hook-worms in the cat's organism is diagnosed by analysis of excrements. Most often that animals suffer from the affection of hook-worms who hunt for birds. Veterinary recommend the course of treatment with one of some specific helminthics.

Additional methods of treatment

  • Treatment with herbage. Garlic pills, either in pure form or with the adding of fenugreek, will cure the cat from crepitations and hasten the recovery form asthma.
  • Homeopathic remedies. Enhystol, 3-5 drops twice a day during the long time. For the rapid relief of symptoms - Traumel, 3-5 drops every 10-15 minutes.