Heart Disorders
All creatures that have a heart can suffer from heart abnormalities, including cats. Cats sometimes experience heart weakness, which in medical terms is called cardio myopathy. So, it's not only humans who are depressed, cats can.
Symptoms of cardiac abnormalities in cats are similar to those of cardiac abnormalities in humans Symptoms of heart attacks include shallow and rapid breathing, frequent coughing, and a weak body.
However, do not worry, as in humans, cats that have heart weakness can live long, depending on how to care for it. We should check the cat to the vet and consult about how to treat it.
Veterinarians usually prescribe medication for cats that have heart abnormalities in the form of Furosemide, Digitalis, and Milrinone. These drugs are classified as hard drugs. For this reason, you must strictly comply with the doctor's instructions regarding the dosage and method of using the drug. Never use these drugs without a doctor's prescription and supervision.
Please note, to treat cats who are sick, now there are special types of food for cats that suffer from certain diseases, including heart disease.
Bad cold
In addition to heart abnormalities, another disease that sometimes attacks cats is the "bad cold". This mention is based on visible symptoms. When viewed from the name or the science of veterinary medicine, this disease is rather difficult for the public to understand, both from its writing and pronunciation, namely: Rhinotracheitis Infectiosa (RI).
Bad cold disease (RI) is caused by the herpes virus. This virus attacks cats and other countrymen in the eyes and nasal passages and then extends into the deep respiratory tract. The symptoms shown are sneezing, coughing, and discharge from the eyes and nose which are initially runny and then turn thick yellow in just 2-5 days.
It is through this fluid that the RI virus is spread and transmitted. Kittens are very susceptible to RI attacks, whereas adult cats are relatively resistant.
To prevent this disease, cats should be vaccinated RL regularly. Vaccination is a cheap and effective effort to deal with RI attacks. Treating RI is very difficult, even the medicine is expensive and not necessarily helpful.
Overcoming epilepsy
Another disease that attacks cats is "epilepsy". Ayan (seizure / epilepsy) is a disease caused by abnormalities in the arrangement of the central nerve (brain). Living things that have a central nervous system in nature can suffer from epilepsy.
In addition to epilepsy, there are also several other diseases that often attack cats, namely infectious peritoneum inflammation or peritonitis, poisoning, mineral deficiencies, hormone abnormalities, tumors or inflammation of the brain.
Some steps that can be taken to anticipate and overcome diseases that attack cats are:
Give your cat a balanced diet based on age and weight. In cities, cat food is sold by doctor's prescription.
Observe more closely the symptoms that often appear at certain times. If these symptoms do not appear again or once in a while, give treatment to the first point above.
If symptoms often occur with high frequency, we can give phenobarbital at a dose of 2 mg / kg body weight. The drug is given 2-3 times a day. The dose is so individual that the frequency of administration in a day is based on body weight and the frequency with which symptoms appear.
Smelly mouth and breath
Sometimes pet cats give off bad breath and bad breath. This may occur because there is plaque on the teeth and gums, causing inflammation of the teeth (ginggivitis). The reason, among others, is that cats are always given soft or wet food so that food scraps are piled up in the teeth or gums. If the leftovers are meat or fish, bad breath and breathing cannot be avoided.
Plaque or food debris can be cleaned If not done alone, a veterinarian can do. If necessary, before the vet can do anesthesia. In fact, if inflammation or infection occurs in the teeth, doctors can treat it as well.
To get rid of bad breath and breath cat food should be changed gradually from wet food to dry food. This change should not be done at once because the cat is not yet familiar with the food.
Now, many dry foods have been sold for cats. Dry food will help clean the teeth next to not stick to teeth and gums.
Urinary syndrome
Cats can also sometimes experience urinary syndromes which are better known as feline urological syndromes (FUS). These include bacterial infections, conditions of urine acidity (pH) in the bladder, and the presence of urinary stones or crystals. .
Although the stone or crystal is still very soft and invisible to x-rays, it is sharp enough to injure the walls of the urethra.
To overcome urinary urinary syndrome in cats, the following steps can be taken:
- Consult your cat to the veterinary clinic. Ask urine to be analyzed and culture is made to ensure the presence or absence of bacteria. If so, what are the types so that it can determine the appropriate type of antibiotics.
- Ask for an x-ray that includes all the urinary instruments such as the kidneys, ureters, and bladder. Check whether the crystals inside the rocks are found.
- Give antibiotics that match the results of the analysis and examination. If the disease is chronic, give antibiotics for up to 4 weeks.
- Go on a diet by being given factory food coded C / D (calculi diets) or S / D (stones diets) from well-known trademarks Food with the code (prescription diets) by veterinarians is intended so that the degree of acidity (pH) of urine can be maintained so that the formation stone crystal cores can later be prevented.
Leukemia
Leukemia in cats is caused by a virus called feline leukemia virus (FeLV). This attack is usually accompanied by lymphosarcoma, which is lymph node cancer.
The leukemia virus (FeLV) is present in the saliva of the patient's cat so that it can infect other cats when there is direct contact and is contaminated with the patient's cat's saliva. In addition, FeLV is sometimes carried away due to heredity.
The virus is already present in the body of the cat, so just waiting for the presence or absence of triggers until symptoms appear later in the disease. Triggering factors can be malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, poor maintenance, and other stress factors.
Common symptoms of cats suffering from FeLV include; weakness, anemia, no appetite, and difficulty breathing. Other symptoms that are more typical depend on the type of FeLV. Until now, there are three types of FeLV, namely mediastinal, multicentric, and alimentary.
Now, there are already test-kits (examining the presence of FeLV through blood samples) so that the diagnosis of leukemia is easy and quick to know.
As an effort to prevent leukemia, cats can be vaccinated against Fe. In addition, in general what cat owners can do is provide enough balanced nutritional food, keep cats clean and healthy, perform sanitation and environmental hygiene, and get rid of known cats has FeLV.
Invite to travel
By its owner, pet is sometimes invited to travel. Cats become happy or stressed in the process will depend on the way the owner treats the cat.
Here are tips for getting the cat to travel so he can enjoy the "tour" properly:
- A month before the trip must be ensured that vaccination in cats is still valid. If it has passed or even has not been vaccinated, vaccination against rabies, cat distemper, rhino- tracheitis should be requested. This should be consulted with the veterinarian or the Livestock Service Office in your city.
- Make a special box for a place to stay or a cat bed during the trip. The box should not be too narrow and soft enough by being covered with cloth, used towels, or old newspapers.
- In addition to the box above, it is also necessary to prepare used newspapers and plastic sand boxes as a place to defecate or small for disposables, toys that cats like, adequate dry food during the trip, and drinking water for the whole trip.
- Also prepare a necklace and rope that will be used when the cat will be invited to walk In a new environment, cats will usually tend to run away and are difficult to catch e
- Four hours before leaving, the cat should not be fed. What was given was just travel sickness medication with a dose of 0.5 tablet half an hour before leaving.















