This is an article on cat disease symptoms. The article presents several cat disease symptoms and diseases.

Fleas

The flea lives nourished by the blood of his host and reproduces at an impressive rate: a female can lay up to 50 eggs each day, which are dispersed in the environment where the animal lives and hatch after ten days, creating transparent larvae (2 mm). The larvae lurk in places sheltered from direct light (such as carpet or sofa), and within 1-2 weeks, you play a protective cocoon that shelters and may allow their survival for a year. It will leave the cocoon only when they sense the proximity of a warm-blooded body which will jump immediately, and return to feed the production cycle.

The conditions of temperature and humidity inside the house favor their survival even in the coldest months and then, if not properly controlled, can become pests and even bite humans.

A severe infestation disturbs the animal is forced to scratch furiously, the saliva of this parasite then the allergy and some individuals may cause severe allergic dermatitis. Fleas can also transmit to animals a flatworm, the tapeworm. This parasite causes problems in the intestine.

For the cat, fleas can be "discovered" using a magnifying glass. So it raised the hair of the animal and try throughout the body along the presence of these mobile animals, 2 mm long, reddish-brown. Be sought even black-brown dots like grains of sand at the base of the hair on head, neck and back: they are flea droppings. Fleas are very difficult to grasp and is therefore useless to try to remove them by hand.

To determine the presence, the fleas must also try several times a day since they live on the body of the animal for food (4 - 5 hours per day) and not always the time of the search coincides with the presence of these parasites.

There are several products on the market in outdoor flea (collars, shampoos, powders, sprays and spot-on vials) and a drug to be administered orally that it inhibits development. Among the products for outdoor use please note that the collars can ruin the coat and, if they are not flexible, they can become dangerous for cats "wanderers" the spray is so poorly tolerated and shampoo, unless the animal is not was used to bathe himself. The powders, mousse or vials spot-ons are the best pesticides for outdoor use, especially the vials are easy to apply in those little negotiable.

Haemobartonella felis

The emobartonellosi, is a disease caused by a parasite that enters the blood of our cat, through a carrier, in this case, the flea. Unfortunately Emobartonella is a chronic disease that remains in the cat, even if symptoms disappear, and it may happen that the cat had relapses.

Symptoms: depression, loss of appetite, weight loss, anemia, more or less, raising or lowering the temperature, staggering, in severe cases, breathing difficulties and white or blue mucous membranes, enlarged liver, enlarged spleen and enlarged lymph nodes. Usually the first two or three weeks are without symptoms. It also seems that cats are those most affected ranging from 4 to 8 years of age.