Oormyte Het Wild Geword

2024 Outeur: Daisy Haig | [email protected]. Laas verander: 2023-12-17 03:04

Myte? Ek hoop beslis dat u dit nie doen nie … maar as u soos sommige van my kliënte is, kan u oortuig wees dat u kat nie van haar oormytinfeksie kan ontslae raak nie (al is dit nou jare gelede). Of miskien woon hy meestal buite en is hy chronies blootgestel en voortdurend besmet, in welke geval u regtig iets daaraan moet doen.

Hoe dit ook al sy … daar is hulp.

In werklikheid hoef oormyte nie vir u 'n probleem te wees nie … ooit. Regtig.

Hier is die maer van hierdie insekte: Oormyte is klein wesens met arachnoidagtige voorkoms wat geniet van die warm, klam omgewing wat deur die gemiddelde oor voorsien word. Alhoewel hulle meer spesifiek vir katte is, kan honde dit ook kry. Dit is selfs bekend dat mense 'n gogga of twee vang, hoewel oordrag 'n ernstige blootstelling verg (soos om met jou ore te speel direk nadat jy deur 'n hoop oormyte gebewe het).

As u nuuskierig is oor die menslike infeksie-ding, is daar 'n werklike verslag in JAVMA (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association), ongeveer 1993, waar 'n onverskrokke (indien ietwat masochistiese) veearts hom doelbewus met oormyte besmet het. Afgesien van die feit dat hy aan die wêreld getoon het hoe onversadig sommige veeartse kan wees, was sy aanspraak op wetenskaplike bekendheid dat - kry dit - oormytinfeksies regtig baie jeukerig is. Genie!

indeed, if this veterinarian’s findings are any guide, cats with ear mite infections experience a crackly crunching sound in their ears…and they’re plagued with extreme itchiness, too, enough to yield the telltale signs of an infestation: claw marks about the ear and head from their vigorous scratching.

looking at one up close is enough to induce delusional parasitosis, right?

though usually easily diagnosed by swabbing out the ear and checking the characteristically brown-black, crusty material under a microscope for signs of seemingly extraterrestrial life, it’s not always that easy in some early cases…or when owners have already initiated a battery of otc treatments.

if there’s one thing that makes me crazy it’s the sale of veterinary products (like parasitacides) at supermarkets and feed stores for conditions that are easily misdiagnosed by laypersons. sure, they can work, but ear mite treatment is soooo much easier when…

1. you know for sure that’s what you’re treating (as opposed to another kind of ear infection), and…

2. you use the right stuff.

acarexx and milbemite are two readily available preparations for the topical (in ear) treatment of ear mites. after two doses, two weeks apart, over 90% of my patients are cured (the remaining 10% get an extra treatment in another couple of weeks). no twice daily ear drops for indefinite periods of time. no pyrethrins toxicity as with some otc products.

need something to prevent future infections? revolution and advantage-multi are both labeled for the treatment and control of ear mites. that means that both products will kill ear mites as well as prevent future infections. in kittens, i’ll use revolution over the stronger acarexx and milbemite in an off label manner: 3 doses, each two weeks apart. (the revolution gets applied on the back of the neck, not in the ears.)

see how easy it is? and you didn’t even have to put ear mites in your own ears to reap the benefits of this veterinary information.