Serious ear mites not only endanger the cat's health, but also cause the cat's body to emit a peculiar smell, making the owner afraid to approach it. When a cat suffers from ear mites, owners should find ways to completely cure the disease. Let it regain a healthy body and be caressed and hugged by its family.

How to treat ear mites in cats? Let’s first understand what ear mites are?

More than 90% of cat ear mites are caused by ear itch mites and ear scabies mites. Ear mites are highly contagious between cats and dogs. If there is a cat or If a dog is infected with ear mites, both dogs must be treated at the same time. In rare cases, people may experience redness on their skin. Generally speaking, people are not easily infected with ear mites.

How to tell if a cat has ear mites?

1. When cats often scratch their ears and shake their heads, they also have a peculiar smell (sour smell) in their ear canals. You should be vigilant at this time.

2. The cat has ear pain and refuses ear canal examination.

3. Use a cotton swab to take a small amount of secretion, place it on a glass slide, drop a small amount of mineral oil, and observe with a 4x or 10x microscope.

4. Cat ear mites are difficult to see with the naked eye. They are just small white dots. You can go to the hospital to observe them directly with an otoscope.

It is not difficult to treat ear mites in cats. Here are two easy-to-use and economical treatment methods.

Method 1: Use baby mineral oil (available on a certain store, choose a better one) to clean the cat’s ear canal. First, lightly dip a cotton pad in baby oil and gently wipe the cat's ear canal. Then use a hemostat to clamp the medical cotton ball, soak it in the ear cleaning solution, and slowly send the ear cleaning solution deep into the cat's ears, then cover its ears, gently rub the roots of the ears, and release them after a while , and finally use a clean tissue to wipe away the excess liquid on the cat’s ears.

Method 2:The commonly seen ear cleaning solution is, to put it bluntly, a 2% boric acid solution. We can buy boric acid powder ourselves and dissolve it in distilled water. Just dissolve 2g in 100ml. For boric acid powder, you can go to a traditional Chinese medicine store and ask the clerk to weigh it for you. Each portion is 2g and divided into multiple portions. Distilled water is also sold in a certain store. You can buy it ready-made. If you really don’t have distilled water, you can also use mineral water. Everyone needs to pay attention here. The concentration of the solution must be accurate. If it is dilute, it will be difficult to wipe clean.

My cat went to the hospital for a check-up and was diagnosed with ear itch mite infection. At first, he was given two injections of ivermectin in the hospital, and then he used the medicine prescribed by the hospital, which lasted about In about 15 days, the ear mites were basically invisible. Unexpectedly, after two days, its ears started to become greasy again, so I gave up the hospital medicine completely. I switched to this homemade boric acid solution method recommended by my friend to treat it, and every time I used it, it came out in pieces.I think the small yellowish particles should be effective, and I continued to use them for about 20 days, and my cat’s ear mites were completely cured!

Of course, during this period, I was afraid that the ear mites would move to other places on the cat’s body, so I also used this boric acid solution to give it a full-body bath, so that everything was safe!

How to treat ear mites in cats? In addition to timely treatment, we must deworm cats on time. Generally speaking, domestic cats should be driven once every three months, and cats that often go out should be driven once a month. My cat uses Bioline. This anthelmintic was recommended to me by the doctor when I took my cat to see the ear mites. It can repel ear itch mites and ear scabies mites, and is very helpful for the early recovery of cats from ear mites. helpful. And it has a good repelling effect on parasites such as fleas, ticks, tapeworms, hookworms, roundworms, etc., and it is OK to use it on cats for a long time.

In addition, some cats may have mixed infections, including ear mites, fungi, and bacteria. Boric acid solution is effective in treating ear mites in cats, but it is less effective against fungi. If it is a mixed infection, the drug that can be used is ear medicine containing clotrimazole or miconazole for two weeks. If necessary, it can be combined with boric acid solution to clean the cat's ears twice a week.

That’s it for today’s experience sharing. How to treat ear mites in cats? Have you learned it?