How do you get rid of tapeworms and will she recover from it.
2007-06-26 07:57:53 · 11 answers · asked by cluttertoclean 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
Go to your vet for medication. The milk shouldn't harm the kittens because tapeworms are found in the gastrointestinal tract and not the mammary glands. However, parasites + kittens can be a pretty big drain on the mother cat, especially if her parasite load is heavy. The kittens will need to be dewormed when they're old enough.
2007-06-26 08:05:32 · answer #1 · answered by KM 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Regardless of worms, a mothers milk is always the best thing her babies can have. Tapeworms are easy to get rid of. Just pop into your vet and ask for Drontal or any other dewormer that will get rid of tapeworms. As for the kittens, tapeworms are contracted by eating the flesh of animals infected with tapeworm cysts, so the kittens shouldn't have them. However, if mom has tapeworms, she probably has roundworms too, which are transfered via the placenta to the kittens, so when you take them in for their vaccinations, they should get dewomed at the same time (8-10 wks old). Cats should be dewormed regularly and it's pretty cheap to do so it won't break the bank. Untreated, worm infestations can cause emaciation because the worms are absorbing all the nutrients from the food, leaving little for the cat. Eventually, the cat may die from malnutrition. Good thing it's easily treated!
Good luck!
2007-06-26 08:22:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tapeworms In Babies
2016-12-10 13:16:36 · answer #3 · answered by janzen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If mama cat has tapeworms, the babies have already been exposed to it before they were born, so don't worry about it now.
The vet needs to treat her - ask if you should wait until the babies are weaned. They need to be treated too.
2007-06-26 08:09:17 · answer #4 · answered by Nurse Susan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldnt chance giving the kittens her milk.... the next best thing to mothers milk is goats milk...you can but it at a local grocary store....i dont know how to get rid of it.. but i do know she will recover from it!! bye
2007-06-26 09:16:35 · answer #5 · answered by ~Chrissy~ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you have to get prescription from the vet to get rid of the tapeworms....then she will recover from it.
2007-06-26 08:00:58 · answer #6 · answered by vnoe07 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
** NO! ! ! **
this is like if a mother has a std (example aids) she will pass it to her child via breatmilk
i dont know how she could get rid of them sorry, but I think tapeworms are not life threatening
good luck
2007-06-26 08:02:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Cats do not want milk - it supplies them diarrhea & makes them lactose illiberal. verify mom cat has a good number of unpolluted water, additionally sturdy high quality meals & a good number of it as she would have the capacity to consume in all probability double her wide-spread quantity of meals. Feeding kitten meals to her is sturdy too as she has larger meals desires jointly as nursing kittens. additionally, provide canned meals if she likes that. purchase her & kitttens the in basic terms right high quality meals you are able to to furnish the babies the in basic terms right start up in lifestyles, so as that they would be healthy.
2016-12-08 19:21:19 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if they are not a bad case she can recover but if they are she could not. take her to the vet plz.oh and to be safe i would get kittens melk at the store and bodle feed it to them.
2007-06-26 08:06:52 · answer #9 · answered by TayTay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not gurl! Now get yur act 2-getta. cul8tr
2007-06-26 08:02:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋