Fleas On Kittens

You can spray your cat s coat with a solution made by boiling a cut lemon or two let the lemons steep for a few hours and then draining the liquid before transferring it to a spray bottle.

Fleas on kittens. Unfortunately in very young kittens regular flea medications are too strong to use and will cause harm to your kitten. Kittens are especially delicate and some flea treatments are not safe. Fleas from the mother cat will spread to the kittens. Ignoring the fleas is not an option as they can grow in number and cause serious health issues for your kitten.

Fleas can make kittens itchy and spread disease and if they re really severe they can even cause serious blood loss and illness. They are considered as hot spots as far as flea infestation is concerned. But not all flea medications are safe to use on delicate young kittens. Follow the advice of your vet.

Because kittens bodies are so small they are at a high risk of flea anemia due to the loss of blood from the fleas feeding. There are many different species of fleas but cat fleas ctenocephalides felis are you guessed it the most common culprits according to purdue extension entomology. Fleas are small parasitic bugs that seek a host animal such as a kitten and can cause severe itching discomfort and anemia. As soon as your kitten is born it is possible for it to get fleas.

Unfortunately as soon kittens are born fleas can infest them. These pests can jump up. Therefore it s important to eliminate the fleas as soon as you identify the problem. Also never use medication designed for dogs or adult cats these could be deadly to a kitten.

Fleas can quickly cause serious health problems for kittens such as tapeworms flea allergy dermatitis and even anemia if the flea infestation is severe enough. Fleas on kittens and on any other animal can also cause excessive scratching and skin irritation. Some methods for getting fleas off of pets such as flea combing and bathing will only kill the adult fleas on your kitten they don t prevent new fleas from jumping on them. The best advice to prevent fleas on new born kittens is to treat the mother cat with a top spot flea treatment such as advantage advocate frontline or revolution next you should manually remove the fleas from the kittens.