Is your cat healthy?

Health of cats, their growth and development, and that means the ability to rejoice their owners with tender, cheerfulness, depend on us. In city flats cats have sometimes hard time, and if she is in the village, cottage in summer, then freedon-sickness can be showed in the unlimited space of rooms very sharply: irritability, nervousness will appear, and hereupon different indispositons.

Many things depend on conditions of keeping, feeding, attention. Owners need to know phisiology of animals - after all, the violation of basic rules of treatment (excessive pampering, non-systematic feeding and so on become a reason of many inner non-contagious diseases. Inattention of owners camn leads to the poisoning with various chemical agents which are a lot of. You need to care of these agents to be kept in the innaccessible places for domestic nurslings, cats are important, and the cleanness in the room too (you need to break of a habit to dirty soft furniture and beds, climb on the table, in the wardrobe and so on)

How to define that the cat is not healthy. After all, if the human ails or feels the pain, he will complain himself about his condotion and go to a doctor. And cats? They complain too, but, unfortunately, we understand them not always, and that's why go to veterinary too late. How to diagnose the disease, to do the first medical help?

It is not easy to diagnose and treat our four-footeds, but it is quite possible. Owners of the cat must know how and when to do before-doctor help, in what cases it is necessary to isolate the diseased animal from others, and, possibly, from people.

Healthy cat is avtive, jolly and calm. She has a good appetite, regular breath, moist and cold lobe of the nose ( nasal mirror), normal body temperature (38-39 centigrade digrees), and pulse (110-140 beats a minute), acts of dejection and urination are regular.

Ill cats become inert, irritable, don't answer their name, hide in secluded corners, prefer to lay. The lobe of the nose is dry, quite often hot, eyes are runnung, appetite falls or is absent, hair covering dulls, cough, short breath, diarrhea or constipation, vomit, hightened thirst can appear. Depends on nature of disease, significant variations of symptoms listed above become evident.

It is noticed long ago that cats lick their wounds theirselves. And it is not accidently, because there is a special substance in their saliva - lysozyme, under influence of which wound is cleared from harmful microbes and heal up faster. During dyspepsia, wounds in mouth cavity and other diseases cats find and eat plants known only them. Don't hinder from it - cats have the ability to the self-treatment fixed genetically. All medicines, as other chemical agents keep in an inaccessible place for domestic animals.

Specialists define the condition of animal's health by his overview, and besides, by the means of examination of ears, eyes, hair covering and so on. For more precise definition of the diagnosis laboratory (helminthologic, bacteriological and others) researches play an important part.

At the examination and rendering of veterinary help first of all it is necessary to do a right fixation of animal - so it is called fasteing of the animal's body or his separate parts in definite position,- it will provide the safity both cat and human. Owner usually holds the cat. It should to apply the different ways of fixations for not to have undesirable consiquences ( traumas and so on).

It is known next ways of application of medicines:

1.Inside - through the mouth it is given different powders, mixtures, pills, boluses, capsules, solutions, oil emulsions;

2.Solutions of antibiotics, Novocaine, magnesium sulfate are introducted intramuscularly;

3.Antibiotics and al solutions, assigned for injections and also vaccines and serums are introducted hypodermically;

4. Intravenous introduction of pharmaceutical substances is very difficult, that's why this method is applied in worst cases;

5. Inhalations and physicotherapeutic methods of treatment;

6.Various ointments, compresses, solutions and other are applied in exterior way.

Owners can give some medicines to ill animals. You need to fix the cat for it and then put the necessary medicine on the root of tongue with pincers, wooden shovel or hand.

Hot compresses are made in such a way: napkin wetted with a pharmaceutical substance is put on the sensitive point, above it is put butter-paper and compress cotton, and then all these are bandaged.