Complex respiratory feline

It is a disease produced by virus and in secondary form by some bacteria that take advantage of the loss defenses favored by the virus to be developed.

It is a benign affection and fleeting in greater cats of 1 year, as long as it is not complicated with bronchitis and neumonía, but it can be mortal in cachorritos, and in pregnant females it produces fetal malformations or abortion.

Excessive salivation is also characterized because the animal presents/displays a picture of estornudos and conjuntivitis, the narinas are covered with secretions mucopurulentas that forces the animal to breathe by the mouth being prevented him to eat. In some cases another call appears associate to this disease calicivirosis that is characterized, in addition to the named signs previously, produces sores in the language, also can appear another called microorganism clamidia that it affects the lungs.

The disease has an incubation of 2 to 4 days and it is possible to be prolonged up to 15 days. It appears generally in the autumn and winter due to the abrupt changes of temperature, the cats are affected generally that are inside all the day next to the heating engineer and at night they go out ?parranda?, those heat abrupt changes to cold favor the appearance of the disease, infected generally by another ill cat.

The treatment is totally symptomatic since it is a pathology produced by a virus, for that reason is important to administer the vaccine against this disease. Specific antibiotics are injected to avoid the secondary infection produced by bacteria that aggravate the picture, is made the treatment of 3 to 5 days according to the evolution of the patient. The steam baths help to open the narinas and also it is necessary to offer olorosos foods to them like bacon, sardines, food in tin; because they have the diminished sense of smell and as they are freed the narinas of mucus will begin to eat because it begins to recover the sense of smell and it lets breathe by the mouth. Also it is important to give much affection him.

Once recovered the animal he is advisable (if it is possible) to avoid the abrupt changes of temperature and that is not related (the castration is the solution indicated) with vagabond cats because they are generally reservorios they of the virus that produces this disease.

In addition it is recommended to immunize with the quadruple vaccine as of the 2 months of age, a reinforcement to the 4 months and to repeat annually. -

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