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Taken care of the ear
By the Dr. Karen Thomas


They are stopped, they incline, or they double. They make ahead, later in front, or both. “” They are heard. In
dogs ear that hangs is genetic dominant on the post thus that a cross of the laboratory of the shepherd
must to always have loose ears and ears of chow/de a shepherd must be unemployed always. In some
dogs the left ear and the right do not even match. In the cats the diverse ears of chaste vary mainly of size
and the positioning in the head with exception of the Scottish doblez that the ears they ahead double and
the American winding that heard doubles the other way around.

The fin of the ear, that is called to the pavilion of the ear, is susceptible to injury, that has lead to practice of
the cut or piece of the culture of the ear, specially in the chaste ones of the dog that was used once to fight
or the protection. Today much people think that this practice is due to prohibit like her it can be painful &
dangerous for the domestic animal. The extremity of the pavilion of the ear in dogs gleaned vertical or the
doblez in the ears that are thrown it is attacked often by the flies in summer. There is a number of aerosols
& bat that can be used to reject flies. In the white cats extremities of the ears sun can be the site of the
induced cancer and must be supervised if the cat it is outside all along. Another class of injury that can
happen to the pavilion of the ear is one hematoma. It is not certain if this one is to the broken blood vessel or
the fractured cartilage, but it causes a swollen fin painful of the ear that can need to be treated surgical.

The channel of ear of the dog and the cat is a formed tube long funnel that has a right angle in center so that
the first piece of the channel works at the top parallel in declivity and then the part more inferior fishing with
cane inwards to the ear drum. This unfortunately makes the wax and the dirt to remain specially deeply in
channel when it is the outer opening closed by a fin of the ear that hangs. Therefore the infections of the
ear are common in dogs. Any class of humidity in the ear can cause the infection, but the factor commonest
than contributes to the infection of ear is caused allergies of the skin surrounds reaction to the fleas, the
food, or inhalants. The trimming from the channel it arrives to be swollen and it exudes excess of serum and
wax, perfect means for the growth of bacteria and leavening. If the affected ears do not stay clean and dry
and releases there of the infection it can be permanent changes in the cartilage and the trimming that can
only be corrected surgical. In some cases the only way to release the dog of the pain and the infection is to
totally clear the channel of whole ear.

Another common cause of the infection of the ear is earmite, a very small insect on the size of the point in
the end of this oration. The acaruses can cause to itch severe and the inflammation or they can be presents
without the reaction in all. They can infect cats, dogs, rabbits & ferrets, but not to people and they are very
contagious. Since then the infection can be nonapparent, when the acaruses they diagnose all “in the
animals of the contact” must be treated to eliminate the infection. In cases rare, the acaruses can be present
in the head and the body as well as in the ears and another class of acarus, call demodex, can infect the
ear. There are several diverse medications that can utilícese to kill the acaruses & the antibacterial and anti-
inflammatory medications can also be necessary. To the veterinarian it must be consulted to confirm the
diagnosis and to provide the medication more appropriate.

The ear channel can also be the site of inflammatory tumors or polyps. These can be seen like mass in
channel, or drain of the channel, or hardly like insurmountable infection when the growth is deep within the
channel where it cannot be seen. In cats, polyps can also grow under tube eustachian in the throat where
they can interfere with the breathing. The Polyps often must to the inflammation or the infection of many
years and turned tumors can if the cause is not eliminated. But the growth is due to clear to treat the cause.

The internal ear is the center of the balance and the inflammation or the infection of the internal ear can
inflict casualties of inclination of the balance or the head. The infection of the ear can extend of the channel
of external ear, or it cannot have evidence of infection in the channel of visible ear if the infection enters ear
average a traverse of the tube eustachian of throat or by the current of the blood.

The infections of the average and internal ear can respond to oral antibiotics or the treatment surgical it can
be necessary to drains the liquid and the pus of the blister that is the compartment of the echo together with
the internal ear. Special x-rays taken under anesthesia can be necessary to diagnose condition and for
determining if the surgery is indicated. There are many cases of the syndrome of vestibular in the dog or
cat older than does not have any present of the infection and which improve with time. The loss of balance
can be so severe that the affected animal cannot be unemployed in all and rolls simply in the floor.
-EAR- PROBLEMS