Today, let’s talk about what are the common parasites in cats? What are the ingredients of our commonly used anthelmintics?

Common external parasites in cats

Common external parasites in cats include lice, fleas, ticks, and mites. Ectoparasitic infections are largely caused by poor feeding and management, poor living environment and other reasons. Lice, fleas, ticks, and mites mainly cause mechanical irritation to the skin of dogs and cats. For example, lice, fleas, and ticks will bite the skin, while scabies mites, demodex, and ear mites will dig tunnels and reproduce in the subcutaneous tissue.

Due to the activity of external parasites, the skin is irritated, causing itching in animals, and then scratching, skin bleeding, scabs and even infection.

Some external parasites, such as lice, fleas, ticks, etc., can also suck the blood of animals. If the disease lasts for a long time, it can cause anemia in animals, and even death in severe cases. Some ectoparasites can also act as intermediate hosts to transmit blood parasitic diseases, such as babesiosis, which is caused by ticks. Severe mite infections, such as scabies and demodicosis, will spread throughout the animal's body if not treated in time. The course of the disease is long, treatment is difficult, and it has a serious impact on the physical and mental health of dogs and cats.

Many ectoparasitic diseases will also have a certain impact on the health of dog owners and their families, and even cause human infections, such as fleas, lice, and tick infections.

Common internal parasites in cats

Internal parasites include intestinal parasites and blood parasites. Intestinal parasitic diseases are one of the most common diseases in cats. The main pathogens include roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms, coccidia, flukes, Giardia, etc.

Intestinal parasites mainly cause:

Decreased appetite

Mentally poor

Malnutrition

Diarrhea

Symptoms such as blood in the stool

PS: Hookworms and flukes can also adsorb on the intestinal wall and suck the blood of animals, causing severe anemia or even death in animals! In addition to digestive tract symptoms, parasitic infections can also cause secondary intestinal obstruction and intussusception. etc., which greatly threatens the health of animals.

The main blood parasites of cats include heartworm and babesiosis. Heartworms mainly parasitize in the heart and pulmonary arteries, causing pulmonary hypertension, thrombosis, and severe heart failure, ascites, etc. The larvae (microfilariae) will enter the lungs and cause lung infection. Animals often die due to heart failure! Heartworm disease can also infect humans through flea or mosquito bites, causing subcutaneous granulomas, urticaria, dermatitis and other symptoms.

Babesia mainly lives in red blood cells, causing hemolysis, anemia, and even death!

Commonly used driversWhat are the insecticides

Instead of telling you which brand of anthelmintic medicine there is, why not tell you what ingredients are truly effective in repelling insects:

1. Selamectin

Selamectin is a broad-spectrum avermectin antibiotic. Its mechanism of action is the same as that of other avermectin drugs. It can cause neuromuscular paralysis in the insect body to achieve the purpose of deworming. However, selamectin is not effective against flukes and tapeworms. It can only kill some nematodes and arthropod surface parasites. It can act on: roundworms, hookworms, heartworms, fleas, ear mites, scabies mites, and lice. Selamectin is highly safe and has a wide deworming range. It can be used for pregnant, lactating and young animals. The more mature products on the market include the familiar "Big Pamper"

2. Moxidectin

The mechanism of action of moxidectin is basically the same as that of selamectin, and it is also ineffective in the treatment of flukes and tapeworms. Moxidectin can also kill surface parasites, and its effect lasts for a long time. It is an antiparasitic drug with high efficiency, broad spectrum and low toxicity. As a new generation of anthelmintic drugs, moxidectin is superior to ivermectin in terms of dosage, dosage form development, drug resistance, and drug distribution in the body.

The more mature product currently on the market is "Ai Walker", which is a compound drop of moxidectin and imidacloprid. It is mainly used for internal and external deworming of dogs and cats (except flukes and tapeworms).

3. Milbeyxime

Milbexime is a macrolide drug that is currently effective in preventing and treating internal and external parasites in dogs and cats. It can effectively prevent and control heartworms, and effectively prevent and control internal parasites such as hookworms, roundworms, whipworms, and roundworms. It also prevents and controls external parasites such as trichocystis, scabies, lice, and fleas, but is ineffective against flukes and tapeworms. The more mature product currently on the market is Halomia, which is a compound tablet of milbemycin oxime and praziquantel. It is mainly used to prevent infections such as nematodes, tapeworms, flukes, heartworms, and mites.

4. Praziquantel

Praziquantel is a broad-spectrum anti-trematode and tapeworm drug, a pyrazineisoquinoline derivative, and is effective against adult and larval infections such as schistosomiasis, clonorchiasis, hepatic fascioliasis, and wing flukes. Good curative effect. The main mechanism of action of praziquantel is to cause tonic contraction of the muscles of the insect body, resulting in spastic paralysis and death. Praziquantel is currently the preferred low-toxicity and high-efficiency drug for the treatment of trematodes. In pet clinics, it is mainly a compound tablet, thereby expanding the anthelmintic spectrum. For example: Bayer's "Baichongqing" is a combination of praziquantel and non-bantel. , compound tablets of pyrantel pamoate, and Zhejiang Hisun Animal Health’s “Hailemiao” is a combination of praziquantel and milbene oxime.Combination tablets.

5. Fipreronil

Fipreronil, also known as fipronil, belongs to the phenylpyrazole insecticides. Fipredronil has the characteristics of broad spectrum and high efficiency, and is highly lipophilic. After use, it will diffuse to the sebaceous glands of hair follicles on the body surface for storage, and then slowly leak out of the body surface, with a long protection time. It has the characteristics of contact insecticide and can effectively prevent fleas and ticks on dogs and cats.

The more mature products currently on the market include Fiprendronil and Methoprosil compound drops and spray "Fulain", which are mainly used to kill fleas and ticks outside the body of dogs and cats.

6. Imidacloprid

Imidacloprid is mainly used to control fleas in dogs and cats. The dosage forms include sprays, drops, etc. At present, the more mature product representatives on the market are "Ai Walker" and "Baichongshuang" produced by Bayer Company of Germany. Baichongshuang is a compound drop of imidacloprid and permethrin, which is used to treat fleas, ticks and lice. Prevent and treat allergic dermatitis caused by fleas.

The above six types of deworming drugs are commonly used for cats. You will be able to choose deworming drugs better in the future!