On the way home from work, I found an underage kitten. She looked pitiful and wanted to take it home, but she already had a cat at home, but the little stray cat caught some infectious diseases and passed them on to her cat. What should I do at this time? Don't worry, Bian Xiao teaches you how to check the health of stray kittens.
1, mental state: This is a very direct way to judge. If you are in poor mental state, don't mess around. Put it in the arranged nest, warm it with a heat source and let it recover slowly. You can also feed a little glucose saline (heating is needed, and then heating method is introduced). This is a very conventional product to replenish energy and moisture, without any side effects.
2, body temperature: If there is no thermometer around, if the kitten's body temperature is very hot or too low, it is recommended to seek medical advice in time or find an experienced cat friend to help, but also emphasize not to feed the kitten with hypothermia.
3. Gums: Generally speaking, gums are a very important feature to measure the health of a kitten. Chewing gum may be bad for many reasons, such as excessive internal heat, endocrine disorders, or other infectious diseases. In any case, such a small kitten can't blindly take medicine. It should be said that it can't take medicine, it can only be adjusted slowly. If you have serious gums, the first thing to do is to clean them with a cotton swab slowly dipped in warm water, and then apply erythromycin eye ointment. This is a very good medicine. Don't buy other medicines. Nothing is more suitable for kittens. When my first kitten first arrived, the gum was so heavy that I could hardly open my eyes. It took two days to clean it up and just apply eye ointment twice.
4. Dehydration: If dehydration is judged, it is very important to replenish water in time. If dehydration is not serious, you can choose oral glucose saline. If dehydration is serious or even coma, you can consider subcutaneous injection of physiological saline (please note that it is pure physiological saline instead of glucose physiological saline, because glucose contains sugar and cannot be used for subcutaneous injection), but only if you master enough subcutaneous injection methods.
The above method has been definitely introduced into Bian Xiao. If the cat friends meet a stray cat or a stray dog, although you may not be able to take it home for various reasons, please give it a drink. The hardships of stray animals are beyond our imagination.