How to treat a cat infected with heartworm disease?

It is only through various tests that other conditions have been ruled out that it is caused by heartworms.

These tests include urinalysis, antigen and antibody tests, X-rays to find enlarged veins and arteries that indicate heartworm disease, or an electrocardiograph that can identify heartworms in the heart and reveal other heart conditions that resemble the disease.

There is no drug that can kill adult heartworms in cats, which makes heartworm prevention even more important.

In many cases, veterinarians will recommend surgical excision, the risk is too high, ** expensive, heartworms in cats have a fairly short lifespan, some cats can produce enough antibodies to resist heartworm infection, most of which are primitive, without human intervention breeding cats.

If the cat is unfortunately infected, it is necessary to develop a long-term management plan for the cat, which includes regular medication to control the cat's mild symptoms, such as steroids or prednisolone; For more serious infections, intravenous fluids, medications for some lungs, heart disease, antibiotics, etc. are required.

Deworming: Regularly deworm cats in and out of vivo, especially in spring and summer;

Mosquito prevention: In summer, when there are more mosquitoes, it is best not to let the cat go out, and mosquito prevention work should be done indoors;

Medications: Regularly give cats drug protection against heartworms, such as slactin, milbemycin and ivermectin;

Shaving: Take the cat to the hospital regularly for physical examination, and if the cat is found to have symptoms of heartworm infection, it should be diagnosed and treated in time.

At present, there are only some adjuvant ** that can help cats infected with heartworms, such as intravenous fluids, oxygen therapy, cardiovascular drugs and antibiotics, etc., these drugs and ** can only help infected cats relieve pain and temporarily prolong their life, but they cannot**.

If the cat is infected with heartworm disease, it is necessary to take the cat to the pet hospital to see a doctor in time, and under the guidance of the doctor, give the cat medication, so that the effect is better.

In this case, you can go to the hospital to buy symptomatic anthelmintic drugs, cats are very susceptible to these diseases, as long as they are symptomatic and dewormed.

The cat is infected with heartworm disease, and you can take the cat to the hospital for a comprehensive examination. Then let the doctor come up with a ** plan to make the cat get better as soon as possible.

What should I do if my cat is infected with cardiac hematoplasmosis**? If you feel that this kind of cat is infected, you must ask a professional veterinarian to give her **, don't give him medicine casually, this is very dangerous.

In addition to dogs, cats may also be infected, cats infected with heartworm disease are generally manifested as intermittent vomiting, coughing, wheezing, retching, shortness of breath, lazy reluctance, anorexia or progressive weight loss and other symptoms, but it can only be diagnosed after a blood test. Because cats are more resistant to heartworms than dogs, the infection rate in cats is relatively lower than that in dogs. Prevention is better than **, cats can prevent heartworm infection by feeding heartworm prophylaxis drugs regularly.

Heartworm infection is mainly transmitted by mosquito bites, so owners should also pay attention to indoor environmental hygiene to prevent mosquito breeding and reduce the chance of cats being bitten by mosquitoes.

"Feline Heartworm Disease".

Cats with heartworm disease are emaciated.

One**. Cat heartworm.

The host is a blood-sucking insect or a mosquito, and the most active time of the year is the summer, during which the infection rate is also the highest season, and the cat is likely to be infected with heartworms.

2. Symptom manifestations.

Initial stage: chronic cough, fatigue, intracardiac murmur, hepatomegaly, chest and peritoneum, generalized edema, dyspnea.

Late stage: obvious heart disease, general weakness, nodular ** disease, and the cat is likely to die due to collapse in the later stage.

3. Method:

1.Adult killing.

Sodium thioarsenic amine at a dose of mg kg body weight, slowly intravenously, 2 times a day, for 2 days before, during,

After that, aspirin is beneficial to cats hydrochloric acid and arsenic, the dose is mg kg body weight, distilled water into a 1% solution, slowly intravenous injection, every 4 5 days 1 time, the drug has a strong anthelmintic effect.

2.Removal of larvae.

With ivermectin 005 mg kg body weight, 1 subcutaneous injection. 2 bethion is the most effective drug to repel larvae, 7% bethion solution ml kg body weight dose subcutaneous injection, repeated once at intervals of two weeks if necessary.

Do not use any insecticides or drugs that inhibit chosterase activity before and after the use of bethion.

3.Cardiac touch prophylaxis.

It is necessary to prevent the bite of blood-sucking insects (mosquitoes, eggs, etc.), extinguish mosquito eggs, and use drugs to prevent them. Pyrimethamazine is an internal agent, the dosage is per lkg, use, and the drug should be contacted during the mosquito and fly activity season. For larval-positive cats, it is strictly forbidden to use pyrimethazine, and it is necessary to kill the adults and larvae before using pyrimethamazine for prevention.

With the development of the disease, the dog has palpitations and weak pulse, murmurs in the heart, pain in liver palpation, hydrops in the chest and abdomen, edema of the whole body, dyspnea and other symptoms. Dogs that have been infected for a long time have very obvious cor pulmonale. 1 Infected dogs are the first to develop chronic cough, but there is no upper respiratory tract infection, cough is worse during exercise, or the dog is easily fatigued during exercise.

2 With the development of the disease, the dog has symptoms such as palpitations and weak pulse, murmurs in the heart, pain in liver palpation, hydrops in the chest and abdomen, edema all over the body, and difficulty breathing.

3 Dogs that have been infected for a long time have very obvious cor pulmonale.

4 Heartworm infection is severe, and dogs can die due to general weakness or collapse during exercise.

5 Infected dogs often have nodular diseases such as itching and ulceration.

After the excrement shovel officer finds that the dog has similar symptoms, he needs to take the dog to test whether there are heartworm adults or microfilariae in the body, and take the drug after the infection**, and should cooperate with the veterinarian**, and avoid indiscriminate medication.

For heartworms, prevention is greater than **. Regular use of insecticides such as dog heart protection can be effectively prevented.

However, if you don't care about it at all, it will die immediately after it develops into an adult.

1 Kill intermediate hosts

Heartworms are transmitted by mosquitoes and fleas, and the excrement shoveler usually needs to pay attention to regular in vitro deworming for dogs, minimize the time to go to grasslands and forests, prevent mosquitoes and fleas, and effectively avoid heartworm infection.

2 Regular deworming

Feed the dog heart guard every month to prevent the microfilariae from developing into adult worms.

Note: Heartworm repellent drugs are generally not harmful to dogs with heart disease, but heart disease itself is a serious disease, so you need to be cautious when taking medicine, and it is best to consult a doctor first.

Do you know heartworms? Heartworm is a common parasite in dogs and cats, with high infectivity, according to statistics, an average of 1 in 5 dogs will be infected with heartworm, if not treated in time, it will directly threaten the life of the dog. Let's take a look at it by Dr. Claw.

Heartworm is a zoonotic parasite that can be transmitted by mosquitoes. Heartworm infection can occur when a dog is bitten by a mosquito that carries heartworms.

Dogs infected with heartworms generally have no symptoms at first, and when the heartworms in the body develop, they will cough, gradually decline in physical strength, and their spirits will gradually deteriorate. When you take your dog out to play, you will feel tired soon after exercising. After the heartworm grows in the dog's body, it will seriously affect the dog's heart and lungs, so that the dog has the symptoms of coughing up blood.

Main symptoms and pathological changes].

Chronic endocarditis, cardiac hypertrophy and right ventricular enlargement occurred in sick cats, and clinical cough, fatigue, poor appetite, and anemia were clinically seen.

If the parasitic site of the parasite causes dysfunction of the tricuspid and pulmonary valves, it can cause liver congestion leading to cirrhosis and jaundice, portal vein congestion leading to ascites, edema of the limbs, bronchial vein congestion and pleural effusion, and pulmonary edema.

Acute death occurs when the worm body blocks a major artery.

Sick cats are often accompanied by chronic, intractable eczema-like ** disease, with itching symptoms and ulceration, suppuration, and papuloid ** lesions. It is milder in winter and worsens in summer, and often after deworming, ** lesions will also disappear.

Special attention: For severely ill cats, use anthelmintic drugs with caution. Sometimes, due to deworming, a large number of worms block blood vessels, resulting in the death of pets.

Diagnosis] At present, there are microfilaria detection, adult antigen detection, molecular biology detection, imaging detection, etc., of which molecular biology detection mainly uses fluorescence quantitative PCR method to detect the genes of canine heartworm in the blood.

The goal of heartworms is to improve the clinical condition of the animal and to eliminate heartworms at all stages with minimal complications.

Heartworm infections in asymptomatic dogs or showing signs of mild illness are usually not a problem as long as exercise is controlled. Dogs with moderate or severe heartworm disease or complicated illness are often challenging.

For cats that already have obvious symptoms of heartworms, the condition of the affected cat should be stabilized before using drugs against adult worms. Glycosylated corticosteroids, diuretics, vasodilators, inotropes, and fluids** may be needed to stabilize the cat's condition.