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How do I vaccinate a cat

2018-01-02 00:00:00
Nowadays, more and more urban parents have cats and dogs, and many people do not know how to immunize their pets. You can actually vaccinate your cat at a pet hospital. It is usually injected three times in stages. Normally, more than two vaccines are given to animals. One is to protect animals from infectious diseases (such as: six vaccinations of dogs, three vaccinations of cats, rabbit fever vaccinations, etc.), and the other is to protect people from rabies caused by animal bites.
Immune procedure
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The first dose of the vaccine is given two or three times, depending on age. In future, animals should be vaccinated once a year to boost their immunity. Vaccination can be given as early as two weeks after weaning of young animals. Vaccines are biological products, and improper storage can cause vaccine failure. Therefore, animals should be immunized in reputable and guaranteed animal hospitals.

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Cats and dogs start to Suckling at birth, the first three days of milk is rich in a large number of migratory antibodies, enough to protect it until six to eight weeks, when the antibody level is lowest, it should be timely given preventive injections, slowly will wake up its immune system, let it know these enemies; But also just know, is still belongs to the "unarmed" stage. After the second injection, the immune system, which has already woken up, begins to produce a weapon of defense - antibodies. Although the antibodies worked hard, the production was still insufficient, so a third injection was given, and this time it was like a shot in the arm, and the immune system was fully activated, speeding up production. At this time, the antibodies produced are enough for one year, which is the basic immunity of the little guy. END

Common vaccine types
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At present, there are two kinds of common vaccines in China: imported triple vaccine and domestic cat plague vaccine. Triple vaccine can prevent feline plague (panleukopenia), feline viral rhinotracheitis, catarrhal enteritis. After the injection, the immunization is valid for one year and should be immunized once a year.

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The domestic cat plague vaccine only protects against cat plague. After the injection, the immunization is valid for one year and should be immunized once a year. If you want to add a rabies vaccine, cats over three months old can be immunized. After the injection, the immunization is valid for one year and should be immunized once a year. The cat triple vaccine is an imported cat plague vaccine, which is used internationally to prevent feline distemper, feline calicivirus infection and infectious rhinotracheitis. Immunization method: Cats over 2 months old need to be immunized (intramuscular injection) twice, 2-3 weeks apart; After that, immunization is given once a year. The vaccine has been clinically effective.

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Rabies vaccine has two kinds of products, domestic and imported, used to prevent the occurrence of rabies. Cats over 3 months old can be immune to vaccination, the protection period is 1 year, should be vaccinated once a year. In terms of clinical effect, both imported and domestic rabies vaccines have good efficacy. Cat plague vaccine made in China is a pilot product of scientific research and has a certain protection rate against cat plague. It is a kind of inactivated cellular vaccine, 3 ~ 4 months old young cats can be vaccinated, the first vaccination should be intramuscular injection twice, each time 4 weeks apart; Cats over 4 months of age were injected intramuscular once, and the immunity period was one year; Injections will be given once a year. END

Precautions for immunization vaccines
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Only healthy cats can be vaccinated. In general, the veterinarian should perform a clinical examination of the cat, including temperature, breathing, heart rate, body surface examination and history inquiry.

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The normal body temperature of the young cat is 38 ° C ~ 38.5 ° C, and the adult cat is about 38 ° C, but it should not exceed 38.7 ° C, unless the individual cat has just come out of the hot car, the body temperature may be slightly higher. The body surface examination is mainly to observe whether there is eye secretions and mucus, whether there is abnormal color of oral mucosa, whether there is proliferation of blood vessels in the eye conjunctiva, whether there is vomiting, no food, diarrhea and other phenomena, whether there is a history of infectious diseases, whether there is contact with sick cats.

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After vaccination, there is a certain rate of protection, but the protection rate is not 100 percent. This shows that when the resistance of vaccinated cats is reduced, if they come into contact with sick cats, they may also get infectious diseases.

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After vaccination, as the immune system begins to react, there may be fever, mental deterioration, decreased appetite, lethargy and other phenomena, these are normal reactions, usually 1-3 days will recover on their own

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Vaccine injection about 7 days, in order to produce a certain number of antibodies, to provide a certain level of protection for cats, just 1-3 days of vaccination of cats, is not in a safe period, the role of the vaccine is not fully reflected. Therefore, within a week of vaccination, you should pay attention to avoid bathing and going out.

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It takes about 20 years for a cat to be vaccinated because the serum (which contains certain antibodies) takes a certain amount of time to disappear from the body or drop below a certain level.

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A cat in the incubation period of a disease, such as feline plague, that is not ill at the time, but will become ill within 1-7 days after vaccination and should be treated. END

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