What Every Cat Parent Should Know - About How To Keep Your Kitten Healthy

Once you had the joy of choosing your cute little kitten and have taken it home with you, you may now be faced with an often encountered problem in young kittens: loose stools or feline diarrhea caused by round worms. If you take a closer look, you may find that kitty has got actually a fairly distended belly and lost the shine of its hair coat!

Cat diarrhea is a symptom that is correlated to gastrointestinal disorders. Enteritis is caused by many infectious agents, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and endoparasites. Especially weanling kittens will suffer from round worm infestation, if preventative worming of the cat mum and kittens did not take place or were not given according to a proper schedule.

Feline nematodes infect the small intestines and cause generally loose stools, colic and vomiting, but also constipation or obstruction and the inability to absorb enough nutrients from food. Related signs are frequently a distended belly, loss of condition and poor growth, a cough caused by migrating larvae and a rapidly developing weakness in young cats.

Round worm larvae are being transmitted with the colostrum and milk of queens. Therefore it is very important to treat breeding cats at least before and after a pregnancy and her whole litter by the age of 4 weeks.
Weanling kittens should get worming treatment every fortnight, up to the age of 3 months. From then on they should receive regular treatment throughout their life.
This helps to control worm counts in a cat's intestines and in the environment. Poor growth, weakness and a weak immune system can be avoided effectively this way.

Suitable cat dewormer for kittens and pregnant queens contain fenbendazole which eliminates adult round worms. Fully grown-up cats can be treated with anthelmintics that are effective against adult worms and their larval stages. There are many different cat worm medicines available that come in different forms, such as tablets, paste, granules, liquids or topical spot-ons. Especially spot-on products can be used conveniently and are easily administered onto the skin, so you can be sure that your cat got the whole dose.

Cat round worm infestation can be controlled well by using modern cat worm medicine that eliminates this kind of feline parasite safely.
Determining and following a regular treatment plan is crucial and will avoid serious health conditions and complications in young kittens effectively.
A healthy kitten will grow up and live a healthy adulthood that will last hopefully for at least nine lives!