Answers to common questions about cat deworming, novice cat lovers, look! Cat deworming is a must-have measure for cat owners, and it is of great help to the health of cats. However, for cat deworming, many owners will have many questions or have some misunderstandings. Only by understanding these can we correctly deworm cats. Below are answers to some frequently asked questions about deworming cats.

Q: Which worms should be repelled?

A: General routine repellants Refers to nematodes and tapeworms, the most common of which are roundworms and hookworms.

Q: How old is the kitten to be dewormed?

A: The first deworming can be done after the kitten is 28 days old, but only nematodes can be dewormed at this time. It is best to deworm after two months of age.

Q: How often do you deworm?

A: It depends on the cat's range of activities. If your cat is kept indoors, you can use it every six Routine deworming is carried out once a month to a year. If your cat can go outside and have contact with stray cats outside, it is best to carry out routine deworming every 2-3 months. The beloved cat that was originally raised indoors was accidentally lost, and should be routinely dewormed when it is retrieved. If a new cat is to be introduced into the original cat group, it should also be routinely dewormed in addition to isolation; Before deciding to breed, it is best to carry out worms, so as not to carry on offspring.

Q: Can deworming and vaccination be performed at the same time?

A: At the moment of vaccination, the veterinarian will conduct a complete physical examination and stool examination. If everything is normal , if the spirit and appetite are also ok, when deworming becomes just a preventive medication, then the two can be carried out at the same time; if the cat finds a large number of eggs in the stool examination, the veterinarian will consider it. The two should be carried out separately, the deworming part should be carried out first, and the vaccination should be carried out when the parasitic infection has been confirmed to be relieved. Of course, these opinions are only personal suggestions, and there will be different considerations in different situations. Each doctor or hospital has its own deworming plan, and the advice of family physicians is still the main one.

Q: Will the worms come out after taking the deworming medicine?

A: If there are parasites in the intestinal tract, it will be within a few days after the deworming medicine is administered. It is possible that the worms will come out. Some worms will keep moving, some will appear dead, some will be embedded in the feces and cannot be seen, and some will be digested by the digestive juice in the intestines and cannot be seen completely. worms. When the number of parasitic infections is high, cats may spit out worms. This condition is most common in severe roundworm infections, and tapeworms will continue to discharge somites from the cat's anus under normal conditions. Appearing amoeba-like peristalsis, some will adhere to the surface of the stool, and some will adhere to the anus, these body segments will be white sesame-like after drying and scattered in the living environment.

Q: How does one get infected with parasites?

A: Ascaris infection is transmitted by kittens sucking the milk of an infected female cat, or licking the feces of an infected female cat Ascaris infection in adult cats is caused by ingestion of food, drinking water, and feces discharged by infected people.

Hookworm infection is mainly through ingestion of infected faeces or other worm-bearing hosts (eg, mice).

Fleas are the intermediate host of tapeworms. The tapeworms must develop to a certain stage in the flea before they can infect cats again. Ingestion, if the flea also happens to be infected with tapeworms, it will successfully infect the cat with tapeworms. Therefore, when the cat is infected with tapeworms, there must be flea infection on his body, or he has been infected with fleas before. There are other tapeworm infections that are acquired by cats preying on other small mammals, but such cases are very rare in Taiwan.

Q: What are the symptoms of cat infection?

A: Infection with roundworms: vomiting, or spit roundworms, diarrhea, may also pull roundworms out, abdominal swelling, abdominal pain, Weight loss, or not getting fat, cough, or less commonly, bowel obstruction.

Infection with hookworms: diarrhea, black stools, vomiting, weight loss, or kittens that are not getting fat, or kittens that are weak and lethargic due to anemia.

Tapeworm infection: There are no obvious symptoms, mainly because the owner will find the tapeworm body segments attached to the feces, anal hair, or dry body segments scattered in the environment.

Q: No worm eggs are found in the stool inspection, do I still need to deworm?

A: The most common sampling method for stool inspection is to use the thermometer attached to the thermometer when measuring body temperature. The feces are used for examination under the microscope, so this kind of sampling does not represent the exact real state. If worm eggs are found, it means that there is a 100% possibility of infection. If no worm eggs are found, it does not mean that there are really no parasites in the body. Therefore, the so-called conventional deworming is generally used, that is, whether there is parasitic infection or not, a regular deworming plan is still carried out, which can provide an extra layer of protection for the cat's health.

Q: Does my cat need to be dewormed regularly?

A: The so-called world events are unpredictable. 100% efficacy, regular deworming is making up for this loss. Furthermore, your beloved cat will always go to a beauty salon, always go to the hospital, whether it is possible to make friends with other cats through the screen window, whether the soil in the potted plants at home is polluted by the feces of infected cats, there are always too many cats. There are many possibilities, and deworming is a simple, cheap, and safe job. For the health of cats, it is better to deworm regularly!

Q: Will it be transmitted to humans?

A: Ascaris: Roundworms that infect cats and are too susceptible to infect humans.

Hookworms: Certain species of the uncommon hookworms (braziliense) are contagious to humans.

Tapeworms: Not directly contagious to humans.

Q: How to know if there are parasites in the cat?

A: The owner should pay attention to any abnormality when cleaning the cat litter. When combing, you should pay attention to whether there are amoeba-like tapeworm body segments in the hair around the anus. When cleaning the environment, you should pay attention to the presence of white sesame-like dry tapeworm body segments. Pay attention to whether there are fleas on the cat. Trace, whether there is black fine sand-like flea excrement. If you cannot distinguish black sand and flea excrement, you can place the black fine sand-like thing found on the wet toilet paper. If it is flea excrement, the color is It will slowly faint into reddish-brown. If it is confirmed that there is a flea infection, it is best to apply tapeworm medicine, and at the same time carry out the work of flea removal.

When the cat has relevant clinical symptoms, the veterinarian will conduct a careful microscopic stool examination, or will directly administer a comprehensive deworming medicine to rule out the cause of the parasite infection. Whether your cat is vaccinated, or when you go to the doctor for gastrointestinal symptoms, a veterinarian will perform a stool examination. Only in this way, continuous careful inspection and regular deworming can ensure that your cat is not infected with these endoparasites. Infested by insects.