Friends who have cats at home, come and see! Learn how to prevent and treat toxoplasmosis in cats!
Many shovelers find that cats are prone to various diseases during the process of raising cats, among which toxoplasmosis is a common type. Facing this problem, it is really difficult for shovelers. Are some people worried that cats toxoplasmosis will be transmitted to people? So what are the symptoms of toxoplasmosis in cats? How to prevent toxoplasmosis in cats? Let me tell you about it below.
In fact, the worm bodies of Toxoplasma gondii vary in their morphology at different developmental stages. Trophoblasts and cysts appear in the intermediate host; schizoles, gametophytes and oocysts appear only in the end host. There are many intermediate hosts, including more than 200 species of animals, including humans, mammals, birds, fish and reptiles, including cats. The final host is a feline, so the cat is both the intermediate and final host of Toxoplasma gondii.
trophoblasts, also known as speedogens, are mainly seen in acute cases of intermediate hosts. Their morphology is a crescent shape with blunt circles at one end and sharper at the other end, with a size of 4-7 microns × 2-4 microns. Cysts, also known as tissue sacs, are found in chronic cases of intermediate hosts. The morphology is subspherical, with a maximum diameter of 100 microns. The sac contains several or even thousands of trophoblasts. At this time, the trophoblasts are in a dormant state. They are also called slow-crotizing oocysts in feces. They are round or oval, with two layers of egg walls, with an average size of 10 microns × 12 microns. The ovum sac excreted with cat feces is completed in several days under suitable conditions. When a cat swallows sporeized oocysts and swallows the cysts in the muscles, internal organs and other tissues of insect-bearing animals, the zombies, slow melancholy and fast melancholy invade the epithelial cells of the small intestine of human cats, perform coccidiosis phase development, and finally produces the oocysts, which are excreted with feces.
Cats are also intermediate hosts. The zodiac, slow melanchondria and rapid melanchondria can enter human lymph and blood like parasitizing in other intermediate hosts, spread to the tissues of various organs throughout the body, invade human nucleated cells for toxoplasma phase development, and preserve them in the body. In addition, cats can also be infected with toxoplasma gondii disease through placenta, respiratory tract, skin wounds, etc.
In prevention, we must first pay attention to dietary hygiene. Meat should be fully cooked to avoid raw meat contamination of cooked food. Secondly, cats should be kept at home and fed cooked food or finished cat food to prevent them from preying outside, because cats are infected by eating infected mice, birds or eating food that contaminates cat feces. In addition, you should pay attention to daily hygiene, remove cat feces every day, and wash your hands carefully after contacting animal excrement. Finally, do regular internal insect reworming to prevent it.
In terms of treatment, sulfonamide and ethylamine sulfonamide are usually used, 10 mg per kilogram of body weight, and pyrimethamine is taken orally 4 to 6 times a day, 0.5 to 1.0 mg per kilogram of body weight, and 1 time a day. The above two drugs have better efficacy. To prevent side effects of the drug, tetrahydrofolate can be administered at the same time, 1 mg per kilogram of body weight per day.
Okay, the above is the prevention and treatment of toxoplasmosis in cats. All shovelers should pay more attention~
