Beware Calici Virus Infection On Your Cat | Cat Treatment And Care

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - Your cat looks limp not excited? Appetite decreased drastically? There was a foul smell from his mouth? You need to be aware, because it could be the pet cat was infected with the virus that causes disturbances in calici upper respiratory tract.

Calici virus can spread easily in the environment, and cause disease respratorik on  your cat. The virus can be transmitted from a variety of ways such as by direct contact, through contaminated air virus from patients who sneeze, eat a bowl with a sick cat, and from the contaminated environment. Because calici virus can survive in the environment for 7-14 days, other literature says up to 1 month. During the attack patients, the virus continues to replicate and perform mutation, so that new types calici virus can appear quickly, with a level of ferocity that is different from the origin, it could be more dangerous than the previous generation.

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Clinical Symptoms Calici Virus Infection

Calicivirus infection can be recognized easily by the owner, as well as the principle of treatment, the faster the clinical symptoms are identified, diagnosed and treated, the chances of cure will be even greater. Here are the signs that you can observe the patient cat calicivirus infection

• Upper respiratory tract disorders. Cats will appear sneezing, coughing, her flow out of his nose, his eyes kept watering, conjunctivitis, sores / ulcers on the tongue, fatigue, decreased appetite and fever. In kittens these symptoms can be exacerbated by the pneumonia / pneumonia.

• Gingivitis and canker sores. The symptoms are along with injuries to the cat's tongue made lazy to eat because of pain, and will smell the stench from his mouth.

• Limping syndrome. Inflammation of the joints (arthritis), these symptoms will occur a few days, which causes a very uncomfortable for the cat.

• The spread of infection in other organs. This can occur when the amount of virus that attacks the very large with a high degree of malignancy. The virus will spread through the bloodstream (viremia), can cause inflammation of the liver, swelling of the skin, pancreatic inflammation and bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract.

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If some of the above signs appear in your cat, immediately bolt it to the animal hospital or clinic nearby, to be dealt with as quickly and as well as possible.

Virus Therapy calici

Patients calicivirus will decline body condition drastically, because it is a secondary bacterial infection can occur. At the animal hospital, the veterinarian will give him antibiotic therapy to prevent secondary infection memperarah condition of the patient, besides that it would be given treatment based on clinical symptoms of the patient to support the patient's condition in general, will also be therapeutic fluids to replace body fluids lost during his strike eating and drinking, also stress that can make shock.

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To restore the condition of the patient's body, the cat needs to consume food, even though fluid therapy also contain nutrients. Medical personnel will try to stimulate appetite by giving wet feed cats that smelled delicious so the cat will eat itself, but what if the cat is still reluctant to touch her eating, meal feeding using a syringe or feeding tube would do.

For the cat calicivirus patients who suffered ganggauan heavy breathing, coughing up phlegm difficulty breathing, will do nebulization / vaporization of certain drugs to loosen the muscles respiratoriknya, and ease breathing.

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Calici Virus Prevention 

Drugs used in the treatment of calicivirus infection is more supportive, because they have not found the treatment of viral infections are effective and efficient, because it is better you do early prevention by vaccination.

Immunization for calicivirus vaccines already exist in the world, the form of the vaccine in combination with some other type of vaccine. Your cat should be vaccinated begin aged 10-13 weeks, then conducted booster vaccine at the time he was 6 months, until the regularly held once a year.

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Vaccination does not necessarily become a flawless armor for your cat. But with vaccination, then it is likely to be smaller calicivirus infection, when there was a single infection your cat has had specific antibodies that fight the virus, so there will be no clinical symptoms were too severe for the cat.