With the onset of heat, ticks are activated, which pose a serious threat to the health of pets. In a comment to UNN, veterinarian Eduard Kotlyarov tells about effective methods of protection, as well as gave recommendations on how to act if the tick is already tastes.
How to save animals from tick bite
To provide animals from tick bites or even if not bites, it must be treated from infections that tolerate ticks. The first and most popular, probably, what everyone knows is really drops on the withers. They are applied to the skin and they all have efficiency for up to four weeks. What is important that not a month, not there are three, but up to four weeks. Then there is a tablet shape. She probably gained popularity later than drops. Then there is a spray form, which is also quite popular. There is also a form of collars that is more used for dogs than cats
He notes that tick pills have a very small variety than drops. According to him, the effectiveness of tick drugs is determined by the correct use.
Because even good quality drugs that could be quite effective, if they are not used incorrectly, people often think that they are ineffective. But that is why it turns out such a little experience. Then very often think it is bad, it is good. That is why comparing the efficiency between drops, for example, and tablets by the same, there is no one that drops are more efficient or pills are more effective. First, the tablets have different active substances, as well as dots there are different active substances. And if you use them properly, know the nuances of the same drops, then they will be as effective as the pills
According to him, sometimes the pills are more effective because they are just a little easier to use, because drops have nuances that certain substances do not work all four weeks, but two weeks. The veterinarian notes that the action of drops can "collapse" under the sun, temperature, or if the dog was wet, it is in the rain, etc., then it will be unprotected for some time, because "these drops from the surface of the body are washed away and it is necessary that they are re -produced through the skin on the skin."
The collar will also be cool, effective, but if you wear them properly, if worn close to the skin. If they are just teling on top of wool, and wool is somehow there, such as swearing, or Haski, Malamuta, something like that, it will have zero with efficiency, because it should rub about the skin
He emphasizes that long -haired dogs, if mites are planned to use collars, then you need to select a whirlpool around the neck where it is planned to wear a collar so that it rubs with the skin.
Sprays, they will also be effective, but you need to know how to apply them properly, in what quantity, not just to spray, like women lacquer on hair, for example, but it is necessary to apply them specifically against the movement of wool, to do it with a certain multiplicity of pressing on the surface of the body
The doctor notes that during the period of tick activity it is recommended to combine drugs for animals.
If you combine drops, for example, with the same pills, it will be cool. You can combine everything with tablets and do not worry at all, because the active substances will not intersect. Here, for example, combine a spray and a collar or collar and drops, then there will be active substances that can intersect
What is the dangerous tick bites
According to him, tick bites are dangerous mainly due to infections.
In dogs, it is mainly baziosis - what most often affects blood, borreliosis or Lyme disease - what affects both the joints and internal organs. (…) For cats, in principle, ticks are also dangerous, however, cats are less likely to suffer from these vector diseases from ticks, much less than dogs, they are less susceptible to it, less sensitive to it. Well, plus little, if it is a small animal, kitten or puppy, it will bite a lot of ticks ... The tick can drink one tick to a milliliter of blood, then, roughly speaking, they can drink all his blood, he can die from anemia
How to remove the tick yourself
In principle, if a person is convinced that he can do it (get a tick on his own - ed.), Then you can do it. Nothing critical will happen. In principle, if a person is sure, he wants to do it, he can do it on her own if he cannot seek the help of a veterinarian. Immediately I say that to pour it with oil or something else, it does not work, because the tick ... People think that it will flood it with oil, the tick will start to suffocate, take and fall off. No, it won't. He receives oxygen from the blood he drinks. He is absolutely indifferent to what he is flooded. He breathes not because of the hole he made, but he receives everything he needs inside when his head in the vessel is and there drinks blood. Therefore, there is no point in lubricating it. The tick should be removed mechanically
According to him, the tick can be removed independently with special tweezers, but it is necessary that they are not sharp, because it can be dangerous.
It is better to remove the tick as soon as possible, because some diseases, they are transmitted when the tick is a certain amount of hours squeezed to the body. That is, if it is torn earlier, it will not transmit this infection. Therefore, it is advisable to remove it as soon as possible if possible. The only thing that is unpleasant, if the head remains, then purely theoretically it will be longer, because it is more difficult to get from here, and this infection can be transmitted from it, because it transmits the infection through the salivary glands. Usually how? They try to get the tick, tear off the back, stays before and then this time until they reach the vet. For example, when in the country. It can be in three days, and in three days this infection is just transmitted from tick to animal
