If you have a cat at home and you are worried about her health, you just need to prophylactically treat it from such parasites as worms in a timely manner. By this you not only preserve the health of the cat, but also your own, as some species of worms that parasitize in the cat's body can become infected with humans.
Types of worms in cats
Cats can have several types of worms. They parasitize in different organs and tissues. For example, in the lungs. Pulmonary worms in cats are thin hair-like parasites about 1 cm in size. Cats are infected by them, eating birds and rodents. Helminths irritate the trachea, causing coughing and vomiting .
Cats can also have heartworms, which, fortunately, are very rare. The animal is infected by them through mosquitoes. There are these helminths in places with high humidity and high temperature. They are dangerous because a couple of parasites can lead to death, since the heart of a cat is very small.
Very often cats can find round worms, the so-called nematodes. They parasitize in the gastrointestinal tract of the animal, clogging the lumen of the small intestine. They are also found in other organs. Cats are infected by nematodes, swallowing eggs of worms with food. Since cats have constant contact with the ground, they become infected by the larvae of certain species of nematodes that penetrate the cat's body through the skin.
Also, cats are parasitized by band worms of the cestode class. There are up to 30 species. These are the longest worms that occur in cats. The animal becomes infected with these helminths, swallowing the intermediate host, in which the helminth parasitizes. For example, the diphyllobothriasis of a cat is infected by swallowing infected fish, and by alveococcosis and hydatigerosis, eating rodents.
Flat worms or flukes in cats parasitize in the pancreas, bile ducts of the liver, in the gall bladder, in the lungs. Infect, eating fish, crawfish, swallowing frogs.
When asked how to check the cat for worms, the veterinarian can answer. Usually, cat feces are collected from different places in the morning and taken to the laboratory of a veterinary clinic. Sometimes other methods of research are carried out.