1. Cold

Symptoms: droopy ears, lack of energy, moist nose, and reluctance to move.

Treatment: In order to prevent your hamster from catching a cold, you should buy some food containing vitamin C and feed it, and take appropriate measures to keep it warm. Do not place the cage in a windy area. Once a hamster catches a cold, it must not be delayed and should be dealt with as soon as possible. If it is not serious, you can try to treat it yourself with some anti-inflammatory drugs, but you must control the dosage. If it is serious, you should take it to a pet hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

2. Diabetes

Symptoms: Diabetes is a disease that easily occurs in Campbell’s hamsters. A diabetic hamster will feel very thirsty, urinate easily, and lose or gain weight. Sick hamsters have great mood swings, and severe diabetes can cause symptoms such as unsteady walking and coma.

Treatment: The main method of treatment is to change the diet. They cannot eat fruits, and the amount of peas and corn in the food must be limited, or not given to them.

3. Diarrhea and constipation

Symptoms of diarrhea: Yellow and watery stool

Treatment: Mix one-fifth of montmorillonite powder with water and use a syringe Force-fed, cut off food for one hour before and after feeding, or go to the hospital for treatment.

Constipation symptoms: The frequency of bowel movements is significantly reduced, or even no bowel movements. When the feeding environment changes, hamsters may become constipated; in addition, hamsters may also be infected by bacteria, viruses, or parasites, which may cause constipation.

Treatment: The cage should be kept clean, fed fresh and fiber-rich food, and given adequate water. In serious cases, you need to be sent to the hospital immediately.

4. Inflammation

Symptoms: protruding eyes, red eye circles, and eye mucus.

Treatment: One mung bean a day, replace the drinking water with chrysanthemum tea, change it every day, three honeysuckles a day, in serious cases, you can use pet-specific eye drops every day. The main cause of internal heat is overfeeding peanuts, melon seeds, and mealworms, and these foods need to be stopped.

5. Skin disease

Symptoms: The hamster’s skin will be red, swollen and hairless, and it will continue to scratch and cause bleeding. If the skin disease area extends to the whole body, it will cause the hamster’s Decline in physical strength can lead to the occurrence of other diseases.

Treatment: First of all, the environment must be kept clean and dry. Take it to a doctor to determine what kind of skin problem it is, and then take appropriate medication.

6. Cheek pouch problem

The cheek pouches (the small pouches on the hamster’s cheeks used to store and transport food) can be punctured, blocked, or bitten.

Symptoms: Inability to spit things out and inability to turn the cheek pouches out (one is turned outwards).

Treatment: When you find it has such symptoms, take it to the doctor immediately. Feeding your hamster less high-protein foods can better prevent cheek pouch problems. Because high-protein food cannot be eaten by hamsters at one time, if there are cheek pouches, it will easily become rotten.It deteriorates and causes the symptoms mentioned above.

7. Trauma

For simple broken skin, you can use topical iodophor diluted and wiped. In severe cases, you need to be sent to the hospital to see a doctor. In addition, it is best not to keep hamsters mixed together. If they are kept together, they may fight and may be easily injured.

8. Eye inflammation

Eye inflammation is also a common disease in hamsters, and there are many reasons for hamster eye inflammation. If hamsters are mixed, it is easy for hamsters to Fights and fights may occur, which may injure the eyes, leading to eye inflammation. In addition, if dust or dirt accidentally gets into the hamster's eyes, the eyes may become red, swollen and inflamed. You can wipe the area around its eyes clean with saline, and then treat it with pet-specific eye ointment.