Bites and Stings of Cat

It's happen that the cat suffers a bite or sting when we cannot see him, so that on having returned to house we notice him aching or discomfort without knowing the cause.

Has the cat pains, is he agitated, disoriented, weakness, lameness or grumbling for unknown reasons? YES
Go to the veterinarian NOW

Does he have high temperature, emits whining sounds, jade, drivel, tremble or has convulsions? YES
Go to the veterinary NOW

Has the face or some of the paws hot and swelled? YES
Phone the veterinarian for advice.

Does he have discomfort in some specific zone? YES
First Aids.

Bees, wasps, hornets, ants and rockets: The stings of bees, wasps, hornets and ants are in the habit of producing a local irritation and local irritation relatively inoffensive. Some cats however, has allergic and potentially dangerous reactions for his life that they need a veterinary immediate treatment. The contact with some types of rockets originates an intense irritation and irritation located. The symptoms of the local reactions are pain, irritation and swelling in the zone where he has suffered the sting, usually in the mouth or the paws.

The symptoms of a more serious reaction are: respiratory difficulties, shock, vomits, diarrhea and coma.

The first aids for local reactions.

1. When it is possible, extract the stings with a tweezers or scraping the zone affected with a credit card. (Do not press the skin around the sting to try to extract it; it can provoke more irritation)
2. Apply a bag or cold compress in the swollen zone.
3. Give to the animal a pill of any antihistaminic that his pharmaceutical gives him.

First aids for serious reactions

• Go to the veterinarian as soon as possible. ((The respiratory tract can swell and turn out to be impossible to blow air in the lungs of the animal only with the artificial breathing).
• Do CPR on him if his heart stops.
• Do the artificial breathing to him if only he stops breathing
• Treat the shock (The serious reactions do not answer to the first aids. Adrenaline is needed and cortisone for revert the allergic reaction).

Poisonous snakes, spiders and scorpions: The poisonous serpents (vipers, etc.) bite the cats much more frequently that to the human, but there are rare the occasions in which we can attend the fact. The symptoms of the sting of a poisonous serpent are: trembles, excitation, vomits, collapse, and abundant secretion of saliva, dilated pupils and accelerated pulse.

The poisonous spiders' sting rarely to the cats, since the mouth pieces and quilíceros of these arachnids only can perforate thin skins, as the existing between the fingers of the feline. Only Australia and The United States constitute a motive of worry.

The symptoms of the sting of a poisonous spider are: acute pain in the point of the sting (usually a paw), abundant secretion of saliva, vomits, convulsions, muscular spasms and respiratory difficulties.

The scorpions' sting to the too curious cats with the poisonous sting placed in the last segment of his tail. They constitute a great risk for the felines that reside in certain zones of Arizona and New Mexico.

The symptoms of the sting of a scorpion are: acute pain in the point of the sting (usually a paw), abundant secretion of saliva, general weakness, respiratory difficulties and paralysis.

The first aids for stings of serpents, spiders and scorpions.

• Reduce to the minimum the freedom of movements of the cat. (If he moves too much, the poison spreads more rapidly over the body)
• If the sting is visible, wash it with abundant cold water to eliminate the poison that could stay in the surface. (Do not do an incision in the wound try to suck the poison, only it would get to increase the blood risk of the zone and to worsen his condition)
• If the sting is in a leg, keep lower than the level of the heart of the animal, put on it a bag of ice (a package of frozen vegetables serves very well to the case) And bending it strongly with long strips of cotton in branch, covering it then with an elastic adhesive bandage. (The turnstiles are not so effective as the bandages to stop the diffusion of the poison) .
• Put the cat inside a closed box and go immediately to the most close veterinarian. If they administering immediately, the antidotes and the cortisone save many lives.

Poisonous ticks: Some ticks of Australia, the United States and Canada produce a toxin that provokes in the cats paralysis and even the death. These parasites have to remain adhered to his victim for two days to cause problems to him. Since the cats tidy up themselves so extremely well, are not suffer sickness transmitted by ticks.

First aids for the infestation of ticks

1. Comb with the top of the fingers the skin of the cat to locate the ticks.
2. Put a small packing of unnatural alcohol or of drugstore on each of them, this kills them. (Do not press them, only it would be to inject more poison into the cat) .
3. With a few tweezers, twist softly the mouth piece of the tick to extract it of the skin of the feline.