How to judge whether cats have ear mite disease?
When cats often scratch their ears and shake their heads, there is a smell (sour smell) in the ear canal, so be alert.
1. Check the ear canal. If there are multiple red eruptive nodules, it is the stimulation produced by the saliva of ear mites that makes the external auditory canal red and swollen.
2. Waxy substances secreted by sebaceous glands in the external auditory canal gather in the ears, and the color and appearance are like ground coffee beans (brown dirt).
3. The auricle is widely infected with obvious scales and hyperkeratosis. Look at my cat. The white dander in her ears has increased.
Examining the ear canal with otoscope, we can find tiny, white or flesh-colored itchy mites moving on the brown exudate. (it's a little disgusting ~ ~ ~, I feel sick myself), and then I can diagnose the cat with ear mites.
It doesn't matter without an otoscope. The small LED lights sold on taoboa are just as easy to use. If you shine a light on a cat's ear canal, you will see crawling bugs.
The question of death is difficult to answer. In fact, many diseases will lead to death if they are not treated in time. Just like people. For cats, the most serious thing is cat plague. Because it is urgent, once it is too late for treatment, it will be life-threatening. A stray cat I once saved died of cat plague, which still bothers me. Specifically, you can look at Baidu Encyclopedia, which is introduced by many websites.
The best prevention method is vaccination. In a general pet hospital, if you are vaccinated, you will also be given the most basic physical examination and deworming. The problems you worry about can be solved together.
Keeping a good cat is a very troublesome and expensive thing:) However, keeping a good cat with us for more than ten or twenty years has brought irreplaceable happiness!
Hehe, if you have any questions about raising cats, please keep asking me! I will definitely answer them one by one and know everything.