Is cat tapeworm harmful to humans? Will it be transmitted to humans? (Can cats be infected with tapeworms, will humans also be infected?)
Have you seen white objects like rice grains in cats' bodies or feces? Or are they long and wriggling unknown objects crawling out of cats' anus? This is actually a parasite that cats are more frequently infected with - tapeworms.
The tapeworm is flat and long, and its body looks like one section after another. Their head is an adsorber that can be adsorbed on the cat's intestines to absorb nutrients.
The adults in cats can grow up to more than 50 cm, but most adults are about 20 cm in length.
My cat is infected with tapeworms. Will it spread the disease to me?
After the tapeworm matures, the segments on the body begin to fall off continuously. As the feces are discharged directly from the anus, sometimes they can crawl out of the anus directly...
Cat tapeworms have flat abdomen and dorsal sides, symmetrical on both sides, white or milky white opaque banded insect bodies, and the length of the insect body can range from several millimeters to several meters. The insect body parasitizes in the cat's body, absorbs nutrients, and affects the cat's growth and development. When the insect body parasitizes in large quantities, it can gather into groups to block the intestinal cavity, resulting in abdominal pain, intestinal torsion and even intestinal rupture.
Generally speaking, as long as you pay attention to hygiene and wash your hands in time after contacting a sick cat, you will not be easily infected. However, the harm of cat tapeworms to people does exist, especially those with children and the elderly at home. Special attention should be paid to the elderly. The elderly and children have low immunity. Infection with tapeworms can cause adverse symptoms such as malnutrition, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and itchy anus.
Cats generally have no obvious symptoms in the early stage of infection with tapeworms. When there are a large number of tapeworms in the cat's body, the symptoms gradually appear. The cat may experience soft stools, diarrhea, loss of appetite, malnutrition, and loss of hair. In severe cases, it may also lead to perforation in the cat's intestinal wall, inducing chronic enteritis.
Most cats are infected with tapeworms because they eat fleas that are infected with tapeworm larvae. After fleas eat tapeworm eggs, tapeworm larvae parasites in the fleas. Fleas are the intermediate hosts of tapeworms. When cats clean their hair, they eat tapeworms that are infected with tapeworms. So if you find fleas on your cat, remember to kill the cat tapeworms while removing fleas. Frogs, pigs, etc. may also become intermediate hosts of tapeworms, so it is best not to feed the cat raw meat directly. If you must give your cat meat, you must choose meat products with reliable sources and quality inspections. I was really worried, so I cooked it and fed it to the cat.
If you find rice grain-sized and milky white insects near the cat's anus, and the cat often licks the anus, or drags its butt to the ground to rub it, it means that the cat is likely to have been infected with tapeworm disease at this time. At this time, you need to take the cat to medical treatment in time and diagnose the condition as soon as possible.
Currently, the first choice drug for treating cat tapeworm disease is pyraquantel. Pyraquantel activates the slow calcium channel of insect cells, and increases calcium ion inflow, causing the insect body to produce excitation, contraction and spasm until spastic paralysis, and finally flows into the liver with blood, and is engulfed and inactivated by liver reticuloendothelial cells.
Several more famous cat anti-worming drugs containing praziquantel are Bai Chongqing, Hehai Le Miao and Bolaien. Both Bai Chongqing and Hai Lemiao take oral medicine and need to pry open the cat's mouth to feed the medicine. The medicine is difficult to use. If there is a slight mistake, there may be a potential risk of being scratched by the cat. Bolaien is a topical drop, and it is better to drop the medicine liquid on the skin of the cat's shoulders and neck. Through the unique transdermal absorption technology, the medicine liquid can be delivered directly to the cat's blood, thereby achieving the purpose of killing parasites.
In addition, Bolaien has a wider deworming spectrum than the other two products. It is the most comprehensive cat deworming drug among mainstream deworming products. In addition to effectively preventing and treating cat tapeworms, it can also kill fleas, flea eggs, larvae, flea pupa, ticks, roundworms, hookworms, lice, ear itchy mites, ear scabies and other common internal and external parasites. It does not need to be matched with other deworming drugs, and it can be done in one piece, which is very convenient.
Although cat tapeworms are less harmful to humans, they have a great impact on cats' physical health. All shovelers must remember to deworm their cats on time!
