Tungau Telinga Menjadi Liar

2024 Pengarang: Daisy Haig | [email protected]. Diubah suai terakhir: 2023-12-17 03:12

Ada tungau? Saya pasti berharap anda tidak… tetapi jika anda seperti beberapa pelanggan saya, anda mungkin yakin kucing anda tidak dapat menyingkirkan jangkitan kutu telinga (walaupun sudah bertahun-tahun sekarang). Atau mungkin dia tinggal di luar dan dia terdedah secara kronik dan selalu dijangkiti, dalam hal ini anda semestinya melakukan sesuatu mengenainya.

Walau apa pun … ada pertolongan.

Sebenarnya, tungau telinga tidak semestinya menjadi masalah untuk anda … tidak pernah. Betul.

Inilah yang kurus pada makhluk ini: Tungau telinga adalah makhluk kecil yang kelihatan seperti arachnoid yang menikmati persekitaran yang lembap dan hangat yang disediakan oleh telinga rata-rata. Walaupun mereka lebih khusus untuk kucing, anjing juga boleh mendapatkannya. Manusia, walaupun, telah diketahui menangkap bug atau dua, walaupun penularan memerlukan beberapa pendedahan serius (seperti bermain dengan telinga anda setelah menembak melalui tungau telinga).

Sekiranya anda ingin tahu mengenai jangkitan manusia, ada akaun sebenar di JAVMA (Jurnal Persatuan Perubatan Veterinar Amerika), sekitar tahun 1993, di mana doktor haiwan yang berani (jika agak masokistik) sengaja menjangkiti dirinya dengan tungau telinga. Selain menunjukkan kepada dunia betapa seramnya beberapa doktor haiwan, tuntutannya untuk kemasyhuran ilmiah adalah bahawa - dapatkan ini - jangkitan kutu telinga benar-benar gatal. Genius!

indeed, if this veterinarian’s findings are any guide, cats with ear mite infections experience a crackly crunching sound in their ears…and they’re plagued with extreme itchiness, too, enough to yield the telltale signs of an infestation: claw marks about the ear and head from their vigorous scratching.

looking at one up close is enough to induce delusional parasitosis, right?

though usually easily diagnosed by swabbing out the ear and checking the characteristically brown-black, crusty material under a microscope for signs of seemingly extraterrestrial life, it’s not always that easy in some early cases…or when owners have already initiated a battery of otc treatments.

if there’s one thing that makes me crazy it’s the sale of veterinary products (like parasitacides) at supermarkets and feed stores for conditions that are easily misdiagnosed by laypersons. sure, they can work, but ear mite treatment is soooo much easier when…

1. you know for sure that’s what you’re treating (as opposed to another kind of ear infection), and…

2. you use the right stuff.

acarexx and milbemite are two readily available preparations for the topical (in ear) treatment of ear mites. after two doses, two weeks apart, over 90% of my patients are cured (the remaining 10% get an extra treatment in another couple of weeks). no twice daily ear drops for indefinite periods of time. no pyrethrins toxicity as with some otc products.

need something to prevent future infections? revolution and advantage-multi are both labeled for the treatment and control of ear mites. that means that both products will kill ear mites as well as prevent future infections. in kittens, i’ll use revolution over the stronger acarexx and milbemite in an off label manner: 3 doses, each two weeks apart. (the revolution gets applied on the back of the neck, not in the ears.)

see how easy it is? and you didn’t even have to put ear mites in your own ears to reap the benefits of this veterinary information.