Pets because of people's close relationship, pet health will also directly affect our health. Required must therefore know the pet health and hygiene knowledge. The keeping of pets is not just a fun thing, but also bear a lot of responsibilities and obligations.
Except to go to stores to buy specifically for small animals to eat their food, they go out with a walk and exercise the body, the illness would also like to take them to see a doctor.
The keeping of pets to prevent the types of disease
1. Dermatology
Skin disease in animals is a relatively common disease, and can easily spread to humans. Such as the so-called "money ringworm" tinea cat, cats were infected after the color will become rough, then fell off a lock of a lock, or even cause skin damage, such a person contacts cat diseases, it will grow ringworm spot. Resistance to the disease of weak, delicate skin of children against particularly large. Pet mites is also playing at outside back easy to carry parasites and can be directly transmitted to human beings. Once inside the skin, skin mites will grab the nutrients, so that the pores become large, the impact of aesthetics. So, when found in your pet's fur abnormalities, it is necessary to promptly bring it to see a doctor, the skin as long as the use of drugs in general can be cured.
2. Chlamydia symptoms
Chlamydia incidence of disease in birds more to one of Chlamydia psittaci is more harmful to humans, the incidence when there is fever, runny nose and other symptoms, like influenza, so the disease must also have the hidden nature. Have a sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia can be transmitted to humans and other animals, people will cause genital lesions and inflammation.
3. Toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasmosis is caused by the Toxoplasma parasite disease, this disease can include people, cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, including more than 20 kinds of transmission between animals. Toxoplasma in cats in vivo sexual reproduction in order to survive, while in other animals in vivo by way of the survival of asexual reproduction. Acute infection when there is dyspnea, cough, high fever and other symptoms, it will result in surface lymph nodes, abdominal skin and ear congestion spots. When the worm penetrated into the eyes and brain when the animals will make them appear part of lesion. Because of this disease the incubation period is longer, strong physique infected person will not immediately attack, but at lower resistance when I bow hair pneumonia, diseases such as lymph nodes. Especially pregnant women, after being infected may have caused fetal malformations and even abortion.
Dependents at home has cats, dogs and other pets, pregnant women should make regular checks of serum, infected with the disease in early pregnancy should be recommended to do abortion, in the late-infected persons should be treated in time. Not with cats, dogs intimate contact, to prevent their contamination of food and drinking water. As a precaution, we recommend that you will be sent to animal hospital pet medical examinations, injections, take medicine to eradicate all animals Toxoplasma.
Prevention of Toxoplasmosis
Dogs, cats are the largest amount of people keeping pets, can become a zoonosis toxoplasmosis potential source of infection. Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease, showed a worldwide distribution, cats are the final host of Toxoplasma gondii, and many birds, most mammals, as well as between human beings are one of the host. If animals of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts from fecal contamination of water and food, it can cause human and animal infection of Toxoplasma gondii. If the person or animal ingestion of infected meat is not cooked and has not been thoroughly disinfected the dairy products, can cause infection. Contracted toxoplasmosis in pregnant women can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, as well as teratogenic and neonatal cerebral edema and visual function or nervous system dysfunction.
