Bau Bau to all friends of the DogClub!
Today I wanted to talk about the uninvited guests. No, I do not speak your mother-in-law of any of the drums that mast step grandchildren come to visit during the holidays!
I'm talking about those little black things that live in our hair and make us scratch!
Fleas! Here's an interesting
zompettando article I found here and there on the web!
"Fleas are the most common skin parasites of our pets. They are wingless insects that feed on blood, they can skip several tens of centimeters in height and are nestled in the fur of animals. They can live several weeks and during this period can produce 20-30 eggs per day.
These parasites are so common that dogs and cats are not subjected to pesticide treatments are almost certainly infected, sometimes even if you do not ever leave home.
Fleas are small and fast and run away quickly when the hair moves away, so they are difficult to see. But what we can observe with relative ease are their feces, which appear as dots blacks, like grains of sand between the water. If we collect this material and put it on paper towels wet formed see a brown halo around each dot, because flea feces are composed of digested blood.
If the animal scratches and bites can be persistently excessive because of the fleas. The most common symptoms of infestation by fleas are as follows.
- Itching
- Skin irritation
- Licking and chewing of the skin
- hair loss
- skin rashes
Fleas typically are located on the backs of dogs and cats, to the base of the tail. Therefore, at this point that the animals have infested more itching and scratching lesions. If itching occurs primarily in other areas (eg, ears, face, extremities of legs) it is possible that there are other causes.
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The Fleas not only cause irritation, itching and skin lesions: in case of heavy infestation can cause severe anemia, especially in puppies and kittens. In addition, fleas can transmit tapeworms to dogs and cats, for a complex life cycle that sees the flea vector of this intestinal parasite; tapeworm infestation is diagnosed when at the same time always carries a treatment against fleas.
Many animals are infested with fleas without much affected, while others have an unbearable itching for even a few parasites. This is because some dogs and cats become allergic to flea saliva and continue to have a single bite itching for weeks. In the allergic skin symptoms of infestation by fleas can become particularly severe, diffuse bruises, hair loss, skin infections secondary.
Dogs and cats can easily infect when they go outside, where there are other animals infested past. Fleas can easily be present in animals that never leave the house, because we can accidentally get her car and a flea in the house. Just one flea to start a cycle of infestation. Adult fleas spend most of their lives on an animal, which lay their eggs. These eggs remain on the skin but do not fall into the ground, on carpets, sofas, beds and blankets from the eggs originate new adult fleas, ready to jump on the first animal passage. The life cycle depends on variables such as temperature and humidity conditions are more favorable can take just 16 days. To this fleas are much more abundant in the warm seasons.
Fleas can infest and bite people to suck blood, but they prefer if they get the chance, infest dogs and cats.
in recent years have been very successful in marketing many products to eliminate fleas, which have completely replaced the old product (much less effective and more toxic) as shampoos, powders, collars. The new products in the form of ampoules to be applied to the skin or tablets to be administered by mouth, are highly effective, are active for a month with a single dose and cover the entire reproductive cycle of fleas, making unnecessary treatment of the environment to remove flea larvae during development.
Depending on the type of animal and the environment in which they live, your veterinarian can recommend the best product specific to each case. The important thing to remember is to be covered at the same time all the animals (dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits), and that not all products can be used on each animal species.
pesticide treatment usually runs from early March until November, and is suspended in the cold season. However, fleas can replicate themselves and thrive during the winter to heat the apartments, then the duration of treatment should be assessed on a case by case basis.
in dogs and cats that have flea allergy requires a continuous control of pests because patients remain free of symptoms. Even minimal exposure in these hypersensitive individuals may be sufficient to perpetuate itching. Therefore, treatment should be carried out throughout the year, both in allergic patients than in those not living with allergies. "
(Extract from: http://www.avanzimorivet.it) Interesting is not it? ? if you have any questions email me!
Bau everyone!
Fido
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