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What Every Cat Parent Should Know - About How To Keep Your Kitten Healthy
Author : Ellen Schmidt
Once you had the joy of choosing your cute little kitten and have taken it home with you, you may now be faced with an often encountered problem in young kittens: loose stools or feline diarrhea caused by round worms. If you take a closer look, you may find that kitty has got actually a fairly distended belly and lost the shine of its hair coat!
Cat diarrhea is a symptom that is correlated to gastrointestinal disorders. Enteritis is caused by many infectious agents, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and endoparasites. Especially weanling kittens will suffer from round worm infestation, if preventative worming of the cat mum and kittens did not take place or were not given according to a proper schedule.
Toxocara cati and Toxascaris leonina, two feline round worm species, infect the small intestines and are responsible for poor growth, loss of condition and debilitation in young cats.
Common signs are gut motility problems that appear either in form of diarrhea, constipation, vomiting or even more severely, as invagination of sections of the intestines.
Colic is often present and so is the typical "worm belly", where intestines are gassy and distended.
To ensure a good start for a young cat it is important to prevent rather than having to treat an infestation with cat worms. A responsible cat breeder will be aware of deworming queens before breeding and after whelping to stop round worm larvae being transmitted with the milk to newborn kittens. Some cat worm medicines are claimed to be safe for the use in pregnant queens. Young kittens can start having worming medicine by the age of four weeks and should be wormed in regular, 2-weekly intervals until the age of 12 weeks. Aim for regular, 3 - 4 monthly deworming thereafter.
Suitable cat dewormer for kittens and pregnant queens contain fenbendazole which eliminates adult round worms. Fully grown-up cats can be treated with anthelmintics that are effective against adult worms and their larval stages. There are many different cat worm medicines available that come in different forms, such as tablets, paste, granules, liquids or topical spot-ons. Especially spot-on products can be used conveniently and are easily administered onto the skin, so you can be sure that your cat got the whole dose.
Anthelmintics that are specially designed for the use in cats are safe and very effective, if they are administered regularly at the right dose.
Infection with feline nematodes needs to be taken care of in time to avoid serious complications or, even worse, life-long debilitation or death at a young age.
Give your little kitten a healthy start into its young life, so it will grow and thrive well and gets the chance to turn into a healthy and happy cat.
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Dr. Ellen Schmidt is a veterinary practitioner focusing on alternative veterinary medicine. If you found this article interesting, visit her website and claim your free monthly e-zine Pet Health Tip, available at => http://www.pet-health-pro.com
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Tags: feline diarrhea, cat parasites, round worms, worms in cats, cat diarrhea, common cat health question, cat worm medicine
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Submitted : 2010-01-31 Word Count : 1 Popularity: 179