Post by Wildewood on Aug 1, 2018 18:36:24 GMT
sicknesses & ailments
These are some the common illnesses wild cats can contract, along with a proposed treatment that a medicine cat should perform:
► Greencough: A sickness similar to pneumonia that is often rampant among the Clans in leaf-bare. Symptoms include wheezing, pus excreted from the eyes and mouth, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose and mouth.
Best Treatment: Catmint, chickweed.
► Whitecough: A mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing and white phlegm streaming from the nose, and a slightly high temperature. This is similar to kittencough.
Best Treatment: Catmint, tansy, feverfew, chickweed. Sometimes lavender.
► Blackcough: A fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms include coughing, expelling blood.
Best Treatment: Possibly catmint or chickweed, but truly unknown.
► Chill: A very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills.
Best Treatment: Feverfew, tansy, lavender.
► Cracked pads: A painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The pawpads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.
Best Treatment: Marigold, yarrow, and poppy seed if there is pain.
► Aching joints: Basically arthritis in cats. Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness.
Best Treatment: Daisy leaves, ragwort leaves, poppy seeds.
► Toothache: When the tooth of a cat aches.
Best Treatment: Alder bark.
► Kitten-cough: Mostly caught by kits; very easy to cure and is the least harmful.
Best Treatment: Catmint, feverfew, coltsfoot.
► Bleeding: When blood comes out of you, usually from a cut or a wound.
Best Treatment: Cobwebs, chervil leaves, comfrey roots, goldenrod, horsetail, marigold, snakeroot, stinging nettle, tansy, tormentil, wintergreen.
► Greencough: A sickness similar to pneumonia that is often rampant among the Clans in leaf-bare. Symptoms include wheezing, pus excreted from the eyes and mouth, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose and mouth.
Best Treatment: Catmint, chickweed.
► Whitecough: A mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing and white phlegm streaming from the nose, and a slightly high temperature. This is similar to kittencough.
Best Treatment: Catmint, tansy, feverfew, chickweed. Sometimes lavender.
► Blackcough: A fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms include coughing, expelling blood.
Best Treatment: Possibly catmint or chickweed, but truly unknown.
► Chill: A very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills.
Best Treatment: Feverfew, tansy, lavender.
► Cracked pads: A painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The pawpads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.
Best Treatment: Marigold, yarrow, and poppy seed if there is pain.
► Aching joints: Basically arthritis in cats. Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness.
Best Treatment: Daisy leaves, ragwort leaves, poppy seeds.
► Toothache: When the tooth of a cat aches.
Best Treatment: Alder bark.
► Kitten-cough: Mostly caught by kits; very easy to cure and is the least harmful.
Best Treatment: Catmint, feverfew, coltsfoot.
► Bleeding: When blood comes out of you, usually from a cut or a wound.
Best Treatment: Cobwebs, chervil leaves, comfrey roots, goldenrod, horsetail, marigold, snakeroot, stinging nettle, tansy, tormentil, wintergreen.
(C) ELLIE @ GANGNAM STYLE