If you are a novice parent who has no idea about cats, and you find a stray cat on the roadside because of love, then the following article is very suitable for you. The health problem of stray cats is very serious, so we need to master some simple methods to check whether cats are healthy or not!
First of all, please note:
1. If there are other cats at home, be sure to isolate them!
No matter what disease you have, you can't take medicine at will, because the kitten's kidney function is not perfect and can't be diluted. Taking medicine at will will lead to poisoning and death.
3. Dehydration is a very important reason that endangers the kitten's life.
Generally speaking, many newborn orphaned cats are not sick. If they are ill, they will be quite depressed when they come. It is difficult for such a small cat to live for three days if she is still sick without her mother. However, even so, some diseases still have an incubation period. For example, the incubation period of cat plague is 7- 14 days. Therefore, if there are other cats at home, you must do a good job of isolation. The advantage of isolation is that it can prevent the cat at home from harassing it, scaring the kitten or disturbing it to rest, or even getting out by the big cat, which is life-threatening.
Second, some judgment methods of inspection:
1, mental state: This is a very direct way to judge. If you are in poor mental state, don't mess around. Put it in the arranged nest, warm it with a heat source and let it recover slowly. You can also feed a little glucose saline (heating is needed, and then heating method is introduced). This is a very conventional product to replenish energy and moisture, without any side effects.
2. Body temperature: The temperature of normal kittens is introduced in detail in the data. At the same time, the data also emphasizes not to feed hypothermia kittens. Please read it carefully.
3. Gums: Generally speaking, gums are a very important feature to measure the health of a kitten. Chewing gum may be bad for many reasons, such as excessive internal heat, endocrine disorders, or other infectious diseases. In any case, such a small kitten can't blindly take medicine. It should be said that it can't take medicine, it can only be adjusted slowly. If you have serious gums, the first thing to do is to clean them with a cotton swab slowly dipped in warm water, and then apply erythromycin eye ointment. This is a very good medicine. Don't buy other medicines. Nothing is more suitable for kittens. When my first kitten first arrived, the gum was so heavy that I could hardly open my eyes. It took two days to clean it up and just apply eye ointment twice.
4. Dehydration: There are detailed methods to judge dehydration in the data. It is very important to replenish water in time if dehydration is judged. If dehydration is not serious, you can choose oral glucose saline. If dehydration is serious or even coma, you can consider subcutaneous injection of physiological saline (please note that it is pure physiological saline instead of glucose physiological saline, because glucose contains sugar and cannot be used for subcutaneous injection), but only if you have mastered enough subcutaneous injection methods, which are also introduced in the data.