Do cat vaccines prevent ear mites?

Common cat vaccines cannot prevent ear mites. The vaccines that cats receive are mainly to prevent various infectious diseases and rabies in cats, while ear mites belong to a type of external parasite in cats, and common cat vaccines cannot eliminate them. Cats infected with ear mites need to use ear cleaning fluid to clean the ear canal and use special cat ear medicine combined with external deworming to eliminate them.

The role of cat vaccination

Cats receive vaccines mainly to prevent diseases such as feline panleukopenia, feline calicivirus infection, feline infectious tracheitis, and rabies in cats.

Feline Panleukopenia: Also known as feline distemper or feline infectious enteritis, it is a gastrointestinal disease caused by a small virus. Cats infected with feline distemper virus may show symptoms such as poor mental and appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, bloody stools, severe dehydration, anemia, etc.

Feline Calicivirus Infection: Also known as feline infectious rhinotracheitis, it is a multifocal oral and respiratory disease caused by calicivirus infection in cats. It has a high incidence and low mortality rate, directly or indirectly transmitted through contact, and young cats are more susceptible to infection. Cats infected with the virus may show symptoms such as sneezing, increased oral and nasal secretions, drooling, conjunctivitis, and even pneumonia and difficulty breathing in severe cases.

Feline Infectious Tracheitis: Caused by feline herpesvirus, it is an acute and highly contagious upper respiratory disease in cats. Young cats are more susceptible to infection than adult cats, and the mortality rate is about 50%. Cats infected with the virus initially show symptoms such as depression, sneezing, and coughing, and later may develop photophobia, conjunctivitis, even superficial corneal ulcers, and rapid increase in body temperature. Pregnant cats infected with the virus can cause abortion and stillbirth.

How to treat cat ear mites

Treating cat ear mites requires the use of specialized cat ear cleaning fluid to clean the ear canal and use ear medicine such as Earfluid to treat them. First, pour the ear cleaning fluid into the cat's ear canal, thoroughly rub the ear canal, and let the cat shake off excess ear fluid and earwax. Wipe off the ear cleaning fluid and earwax from the cat's outer ear canal, then drop ear medicine into the cat's ear canal, rub the ear canal to mix the medicine evenly. Because the life cycle of ear mites is long, it usually takes 3 to 4 weeks of cleaning and applying medicine to completely eliminate ear mites from the cat's ear canal.