If a cat’s earwax is not cleaned for a long time and accumulates too much, it will easily cause ear disease or inflammation in the cat. If your cat scratches its ears, shakes its head, or scratches its ear shell, it can be basically determined that your cat needs to clean its earwax. Pay attention to the following points when cleaning your cat’s earwax:

1. Earwax makes cats sick

1. Ear disease condition

Symptoms of sick cats often include restlessness, frequent flapping of the ears, scratching the ears with paws, or rubbing the ears against objects, loss of appetite, scratches and abrasions on the ear shells, and common bleeding.

Black exudate is attached to the external auditory canal, and sometimes otorrhea can be seen adhering to the hair at the base of the ear

2. Symptoms of ear mites

Ear mites are highly contagious through contact. The clinical manifestation is severe itching of the ears, and the affected cat scratches its ears with its hind paws from time to time. Skin lesions, ear hematomas, and shaking of the head are often seen. Brown-black secretions and epidermal hyperplasia symptoms can be seen in the ear canal.

Deep invasion can cause encephalitis and cranial nerve symptoms. The affected cat has obvious ear pain and tenderness.

3. Symptoms of ear scabies

Cats’ ear canals are oily, so if your cat’s earwax is dry and black, it’s possible that your cat has ear scabies. If it is ignored and allowed to develop, it may cause otitis externa.

4. Moisture and stickiness can easily lead to otitis

If there is wet, sticky and smelly earwax in the cat's ears, and the earwax is milky yellow or dark brown, it is very likely that the cat has suffered from otitis externa. At this time, parents must pay attention to it and get timely treatment.

2. How to clean cat earwax

1. Prepare the tools first

Before removing earwax, you must prepare tools first, including cotton swabs, gauze or soft toilet paper, olive oil or ear oil drops, watermelon cream spray, and Elizabethan rings, especially for cats that are less cooperative.

2. Steps to clean earwax

(1) Do not cooperate with the white circle

For uncooperative cats, first put an Elizabethan ring on them. For cooperative cats, you can omit this step, and then gently pull up the cat's ear wings.

(2) Drop the oil into the ear canal

Dip a cotton swab into olive oil or ear oil, let a drop of oil enter the ear canal, and gently rub the cat's ears at the same time to allow the oil to fully contact the earwax and soften the stubborn earwax.

(3) Massage the ears for one minute

Just massage for about a minute. Then release the cat and let the cat shake its head, so that the stubborn earwax in the inner ear canal can be shaken out.

(4) Use cotton swabs to remove earwax

Replace the cotton swab with a clean one, and gently insert it into the cat's ear canal. Be careful not to go too deep, because the earwax in the inner ear canal has softened and been thrown out of the cat's ear, so just wipe the cat's external ear canal and external auricle carefully.

After cleaning, use soft gauze or toilet paper to wipe away the grease in the external auditory canal and external auricle.

(5) Use spray to prevent inflammation

Spray on watermelon frost spray. Watermelon Frost Spray can effectively prevent and treat cat ear mites, and can also reduce inflammation in cats with ear inflammation. Spray watermelon frost on so you don’t have to wipe it off. The cleaning work of the cat's ears is completed.

3. Clean the cotton swab when it cannot remove earwax

1. Hold the cat in your arms

Hold the cat in your arms, because cats are generally reluctant to move their ears. This can make the cat feel safe and trust you to let you clean it. Therefore, it is best to wear thicker clothes and gloves in advance to prevent being scratched or bitten. hurt.

2. Ear turning, shearing and cleaning

Open the ears and use scissors to cut off part of the excess hair next to the ears. This is to facilitate the instillation of borneol boric acid ear drops. Be careful not to cut the ears when cutting.

3. Inject liquid medicine for cleaning

After opening the ears again, quickly instill about 3 drops of borneol boric acid ear drops. When the ear drops are instilled, the cat will reflexively shake its ears. At this time, it is necessary to fix its head and then rub it with your hands a few times. The base of the ear.

4. Let the cat wag its ears

When cleaning a cat’s earwax, the technique must be gentle, otherwise the cat will easily struggle and escape. When cleaning, you can let the cat flick its ears and wait half an hour before continuing. This will make it easier to clean the ear mites after they soften.