What should I do if a hairless cat in Canada coughs? Coughs will affect their appetite and sleep, which to a certain extent also affects the lives of their owners. Therefore, if a cat coughs, it should be treated as soon as possible!

1. Causes of cat coughs

Common diseases that cause coughs include pulmonary edema, bronchitis, bronchitis, tracheal paralysis, laryngitis, allergies, asthma, etc. Primary coughs are mainly caused by colds, such as wind-cold, cold and dampness, sudden changes in the climate, etc., which can stimulate the bronchial mucosa, increase the secretion of mucus, and promote the bronchial to reproduce frequently.

Infectious diseases that cause cough include infectious bronchitis, cat tuberculosis, etc. According to other clinical symptoms, necessary examinations are carried out to find out the cause of the disease.

Parasitic diseases that cause coughing, such as heartworm disease. Coughs, circulation disorders, difficulty breathing caused by heartworms, murmurs during the systolic period, anemia, frequent swelling of the liver, enlarged abdominal circumference, often accompanied by nodular skin diseases, nodules often ulcerate, and microfilariae are often found in the blood vessels around the nodules.

2. Symptoms of cat coughing

Cat coughing can be divided into two types: dry cough and wet cough. Coughs may be accompanied by other symptoms, such as runny nose or tears and fever.

1. The nature of cough. Cough has no sputum or very little sputum, which is called dry cough. Dry or irritating cough is common in acute or chronic pharyngitis, laryngeal cancer, early stages of acute bronchitis, tracheal compression, bronchial foreign body, bronchial tumor, pleural disease, primary pulmonary hypertension, and mitral valve stenosis. Cough with sputum is called wet cough, which is commonly found in chronic bronchitis, bronchodilation, pneumonia, lung abscess and hollow tuberculosis.

2. The time and regularity of coughing. Sudden coughing is often caused by inhalation of irritating gas or foreign bodies, lymph nodes or tumors that compress the trachea or bronchial bifurcation. Onset cough can be seen in whooping cough, endotrachondrial tuberculosis, and bronchial asthma (variant asthma), which has the main symptoms of cough. Long-term chronic cough is more common in chronic bronchitis, bronchodilation, lung abscess and tuberculosis. Nocturnal cough is common in patients with left heart failure and tuberculosis. The causes of nocturnal cough may be related to worsening pulmonary congestion at night and increased excitability of the vagus nerve.

3. The tone of cough refers to the characteristics of cough sound. For example, the coughing sound is hoarse, which is mostly caused by inflammation of the vocal cords or tumors that compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve; chicken crowing cough is manifested as continuous paroxysmal cough accompanied by high-profile inhalation echo, which is more common in pertussis, epiglottis, laryngeal diseases or tracheal compression; metal-sounding cough is often caused by direct compression of the trachea by mediastinal tumors, aortic aneurysms or bronchial cancer; low or weak cough, which is seen in severe emphysema, vocal cord paralysis and extremely weak cats.