There is a saying that there are "three mountains" in Cat Festival, namely, nail cutting, bathing and medicine feeding. No matter how harmonious and warm you get along with your cat in Japan and China, as long as you move out of any "mountain", your good relationship with your cat may be affected. Among them, sometimes cats will grab or bite their hands when they are not paying attention.
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Nevertheless, you can't be soft-hearted without medicine. There is a way to feed the cat. If you learn the following skills, the success rate of drug delivery can be improved by 95%!
1, commonly used oral dosage form for cats.
Different dosage forms lead to different modes of administration. Different prescription administration methods of drugs can often get twice the result with half the effort. The medicines taken by cats can be divided into five types: tablets, ointments, powders, capsules and solutions.
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2. How to feed the pills?
The martial arts in the world are fast and unbreakable! As long as you are fast enough, the cat will get the medicine in its stomach before it can think.
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1) Plug it in quickly.
We need to open the cat's mouth. If the cat is very resistant in this process, it may be that your operation method is wrong and you feel uncomfortable. The shovel officer first gently presses the cat's forehead (above the eyebrows) with the palm of his hand, then presses the positions on both sides of the cheek (above the mouths on both sides) with his thumb and middle finger respectively, and then slightly raises the cat's head like an eye ring box, and slightly opens the cat's mouth with force.
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Don't idle your other hand, and quickly put the medicine into the depths of the cat's tongue (near the throat), which will easily cause the cat to swallow. In order to avoid being caught or bitten by a cat, the shovel officer had better wear gloves when feeding.
2) Confirm whether to swallow.
Don't think that everything will be fine after completing the above steps. Sometimes, if we move too slowly or operate inexperiently, the pills will be pushed out by the cat with its tongue. The shovel officer had better check it again after feeding the medicine.
2. how to feed the medicine?
Solution generally needs to be used as a needle to assist us in feeding medicine, and the needle should be pulled off before feeding medicine. For oral solution medicine, we don't need to open the cat's mouth, just put the syringe behind the canine teeth in the cat's mouth and inject the medicine slowly.
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If the cat vomits after drinking the medicine, it may be that the taste of the medicine has stimulated the cat. The shovel officer can try to put the syringe down his throat to prevent the medicine from staying in his mouth for a long time. When feeding, don't choke the cat too fast, and don't hold the cat's head too high to avoid foreign body pneumonia caused by drugs entering the esophagus.
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3. How to feed the powder?
After we brew the powder with warm water, we can put the medicine into the syringe and push it into the cat's mouth. Another method is to buy edible vacuum capsules from a treasure or drugstore, fill them with powder, and then feed them in the food that cats usually like (this method is also suitable for capsule medicine feeding).
4. Precautions before administration
We'd better read the drug instructions carefully before taking the drug, and make clear the dosage of the drug. For example: dosage form, administration time, contraindications, etc.
The focus of the drug dosage form is, for example, if I buy pills, can I grind them for cats? Or can capsule medicine be brewed for cats? Secondly, the feeding time refers to whether you can take medicine on an empty stomach or need to take medicine on an empty stomach. Finally, the taboo is, can kittens, pregnant cats and lactating cats take it? Does this drug conflict with other drugs?
Some time ago, a shovel officer asked the bug: after taking the medicine, his cat began to foam at the mouth after a while, but his mental state was not abnormal. What's going on here? Actually, don't worry too much. This may be because some drugs are too bitter or contain other irritating things, which stimulate the cat's oral mucosa and secrete a lot of saliva. It will be all right after a while.
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If there are some snacks at home, the shovel officer can give some to the cat after feeding the medicine. It knows the truth of "bitter before sweet" and may continue to cooperate with you next time!