Ear-mites are very common ear parasites of dogs and cats. Dogs and cats are all parasitized by the same type of ear mites, namely otodectes-cynotis, which live in the outer ears of dogs and cats. Causes otitis externa and severe itching of dogs and cats' ears.

Teach you about cat ear scabies

In the otitis externa of dogs, the incidence of ear scabies accounts for about 5-50%, and the incidence of cat scabies is as high as 50%, so ear scabies is a very common disease. Ear scabies parasitizes on the surface of the external auditory canal, bites the ears of pets, sucks the animal's blood, and passes on the family line in the ears. It parasitizes in the warm and moist ear canal, and at the same time lays eggs and reproduces.

Understanding ear scabies

By sucking the tissue and tissue fluid of the ear canal mucosa as a source of nutrition, it causes mechanical damage to the ear canal mucosa, which is usually accompanied by mixed infections of bacteria, mold or yeast. The degree of inflammation of the external ear is directly proportional to the number of parasites and the duration of the parasite.

At this time, there will be more and more ear scabies, and of course the pets will become more and more itchy. You can think about how uncomfortable it would be if a small bug flew into your ear. And now there are hundreds and thousands of bugs eating in their ears, and that is so uncomfortable.

Life history of ear scabies

The life cycle of ear scabies is about three weeks, so its treatment should also last three weeks, because ear scabies has adults, larvae and eggs. If you only kill the adults, you may think you are cured, because The adult worms are dead and there are no ear scabies biting the ears for the time being, so the symptoms are temporarily relieved. However, after a few weeks, you will find that your pets’ ears begin to itch again. Why? Because the larvae and larvae that were not killed before are The eggs have now grown into adults, and of course their ears are in dire straits again. Therefore, you must follow the doctor's advice and be patient, so that ear scabies can be completely cured.

How to get infected with ear scabies

Ear scabies is very contagious. They can easily infect their own children, and can also infect pets living in the same environment, such as cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and minks. Fortunately! Humans will not be infected.

Prevention of ear scabies

It’s easy to say it’s easy, but it’s not easy to say it’s difficult. To put it simply, you won’t get it as long as you don’t come into contact with it, but there are many opportunities for contact. For example, if a dog or cat goes to be groomed, if you don’t interact with other dogs and cats If you do a good job of isolation, ear scabies is likely to be passed from one to another, and if your pet goes out for a walk, it will be infected with ear scabies.Of course, animals that come into contact with each other will get it. Therefore, you must pay more attention to the environment of dogs and cats to avoid infection. If you suspect that your baby has this problem, take it to a doctor for examination and treatment as soon as possible!

Ear scabies treatment

It is incorrect for many people to buy ear drops on the market and drop them casually. Some ear drops are sterilizing and used to treat bacterial or yeast infections, but they are not effective against ear scabies. For ear scabies, ear drops containing insecticides are effective. There are currently effective injection drugs for treating ear scabies, which can be treated once a week. After the injection, the ear scabies will die after sucking the lymph fluid of the animal, but the eggs produced by the parasites will continue to hatch. The general life cycle is three weeks, so It needs to be treated once a week for 3-4 times in a row until all the hatched insects are dead before it can be completely treated.