Øremider Gået Vildt

2024 Forfatter: Daisy Haig | [email protected]. Sidst ændret: 2023-12-17 03:07

Har du mider? Jeg håber bestemt ikke, at du ikke … men hvis du er som nogle af mine klienter, kan du måske være overbevist om, at din kat bare ikke kan slippe af med hendes ørepindinfektion (selvom det har været år nu). Eller måske bor han mest udenfor, og han er kronisk eksponeret og konstant inficeret, i hvilket tilfælde du virkelig skulle gøre noget ved det.

Uanset hvad … der er hjælp.

Faktisk behøver øremider ikke være et problem for dig … nogensinde. Virkelig.

Her er den tynde på disse væsener: Øremider er små væsener, der ser ud til arachnoid, der nyder det varme, fugtige miljø fra det gennemsnitlige øre. Selvom de er mere specifikke for katte, kan hunde også få dem. Mennesker har endda været kendt for at fange en bug eller to, selvom transmission tager en seriøs eksponering (som at lege med dine ører lige efter rifling gennem en bunke øremider).

Hvis du er nysgerrig efter den menneskelige infektions ting, er der en egentlig beretning i JAVMA (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association), omkring 1993, hvor en frygtløs (hvis noget masochistisk) dyrlæge med vilje inficerede sig med øremider. Bortset fra at demonstrere for verden, hvor skøre nogle dyrlæger kan være, var hans påstand om videnskabelig berømmelse, at - få dette - øremidinfektioner er virkelig virkelig kløende. Geni !

indeed, if this veterinarian’s findings are any guide, cats with ear mite infections experience a crackly crunching sound in their ears…and they’re plagued with extreme itchiness, too, enough to yield the telltale signs of an infestation: claw marks about the ear and head from their vigorous scratching.

looking at one up close is enough to induce delusional parasitosis, right?

though usually easily diagnosed by swabbing out the ear and checking the characteristically brown-black, crusty material under a microscope for signs of seemingly extraterrestrial life, it’s not always that easy in some early cases…or when owners have already initiated a battery of otc treatments.

if there’s one thing that makes me crazy it’s the sale of veterinary products (like parasitacides) at supermarkets and feed stores for conditions that are easily misdiagnosed by laypersons. sure, they can work, but ear mite treatment is soooo much easier when…

1. you know for sure that’s what you’re treating (as opposed to another kind of ear infection), and…

2. you use the right stuff.

acarexx and milbemite are two readily available preparations for the topical (in ear) treatment of ear mites. after two doses, two weeks apart, over 90% of my patients are cured (the remaining 10% get an extra treatment in another couple of weeks). no twice daily ear drops for indefinite periods of time. no pyrethrins toxicity as with some otc products.

need something to prevent future infections? revolution and advantage-multi are both labeled for the treatment and control of ear mites. that means that both products will kill ear mites as well as prevent future infections. in kittens, i’ll use revolution over the stronger acarexx and milbemite in an off label manner: 3 doses, each two weeks apart. (the revolution gets applied on the back of the neck, not in the ears.)

see how easy it is? and you didn’t even have to put ear mites in your own ears to reap the benefits of this veterinary information.