Domestic first-aid outfit for cats

If you have a cat in the house you need provide yourself with a little outfit with supply of means for timely giving the first aid to the diseased animal before going to the veterinary. As a rule, this is a little box (or bag) with sticked blue cross (symbol of veterinary help), in which optimal set of kept goods and medicaments are kept:

1. veterinary or clinical thermometer;

2. syringe for 70-100 ml;

3. squirt with needles for injections;

4. curved scissors for the cutting of hair coverimg when there is a disease of skin, wounds, injuries;

5.anatomic pincers for the prehension of edge of wound, removing dirtyings from its surface;

6. eye medicine droppers;

7. elastic tourniquet elastic for hemostasia;

8. sterile gauze bandages - 3 pcs.;

9 sterile gauze napkins - 2 packets;

10. white and grey cotton wool for compresses;

11. elastic bandage;

12. court plaster;

13. three-percent solution of hydrogen peroxide for the desinfection and management of wounds;

14. five-percent spirit solution of iodin;

15. eye drops;

16. potassium permanganat (manganese solution);

17. castor oil and liquid paraffin;

18. three-percent solution of boric spirit;

19. tetracycline (vitacycline);

20. sulfadimine;

21.enteroseptol;

22. analgin;

23. activated carbon in pills;

24. vicasol for the increase of fibrilation when there is bleedings.

Medicaments should be with labels and signed. It is necessary to do the revision of the outfit and to replace all overdue medicines with new.

The goal of the fist aid is not only to save the life ill animal, but to prevent possible complications. Ways and methods of giving the first aid is rather simple, don't need a special veterinary or biological grounding, that's why they are acessible to any cat's owner.

At the open injuries first of all you need to stop the bleeding with the help of tourniquet or tight bandage, at fractures the broken bone is fixed by splint. If the cat falls ill, it is desirable to take her temperature, pulse and breath, that will allow to diagnose exactly the condition of the animal.

Before using the instruments (scissors, pincers, scalpel, squirts, needles and so on) you need to prepare them: to sterilize in the special metallic capacity-sterilizer or in usual pan, basin with cover. All these are boiled for 30 minutes in the water or 1-2-percent solution of baking soda, 10 minutes in 0,1-percent solution of caustic alkali. Tooling and glass good are wraped in the gauze. Squirts are boiled only in tap water. After the boiling water is pour off and instruments are got cold.

Before the introductory of pharmaceutical substance, at the giving of help at injuries, burns, bleedings and other urgent intervention you need to work up your hands. Cut off the nails, then wash your hands with soap during several minutes. Clear up thoroughly interdigital and hyponycheal spaces. Wipe the hands with makeup 0,5-percent of liquid ammonia or camphor spirit with the help of gauze napkins or pieces of cotton wool. Dry out the hands with sterile napkins. After this you can do the necessary manipulations.

Quite often owners have to give prescripted medical products to their cats. As a rule, it is not difficult, however you need to kow that medicines, introducting through the mouth, shoul not be mixed with the food. It is much better to give medicine just as it is and in indicated quantity to be sure that cat swallow it. When it is necessary to give the cat a powder, it is not worth to pour it in the mouth: cat can clear her throat and throw it out. You can mix the powder with water or milk and smear the tongue or lips of the animal with this mixture, your 'patient' will swallow the mixture with pleasure.

It should place pills, dragee or capsules near the root of the cat's tongue and some time to hold her jaw for the mouth to be shut untill she swallow the medicine.

While using ointment, creams, emultions you need to rub these product properly into the skin in and around pathologic process. Then it is desirable to put protective bandage for the cat not to lick off the medicine.

Ear drops are introducted in the broadest canal which is good seen in the helix, liquid will find a way into the ear.

While dropping the eyes you need to hold cat's head firmly with one hand, parting the eyelids with big and index finger, and to introduct the medicine with the help of dropper by the other hand. You need to drop the eye very carefuly to avoind the injury of cornea.

The main is not to give the medicine products without consulting a veterinary and getting special permission to use them. An ignorant using of products often brings unneeded and long torments to your cat and sometimes injures and even kills her. Don't forget: you need to keep medicines in the place inaccessible for children!