Cockroaches in the house are one of the worst problems for housewives. Pests are quite tenacious and easily adapt to any conditions. Getting rid of them is not easy; you will have to spend a lot of time, nerves and finances. Cockroaches contribute to the spread of infectious diseases, so do not delay the fight against them. Cockroaches are nocturnal, so you can spot them in dark corners of the apartment or at night. During the day, insects hide behind furniture, in floor crevices, and baseboards.
"It's difficult, but possible"
The head of the Institute of Toxicology at the Helmholtz Center in Munich, Martin Göttlicher, explained to t-online.de how Bundeswehr experts discovered Novichok in the tests of Alexei Navalny. In his words, “it’s difficult, but possible.”
Novichok suppresses an important enzyme: cholinesterase . This enzyme can be isolated from the body, and a highly sensitive mass spectrometer to determine whether there is any residue of the active ingredient remaining. This is a common and accurate method - and may now be successful,” Goettlicher said.
According to him, chemical warfare agents such as Novichok are designed in such a way that they enter the body very easily: for example, through the skin, through the air or through the gastrointestinal tract.
“In Navalny’s case, this means that he was given the poison shortly before he collapsed: several hours, maybe even a few minutes before,” the toxicologist said.
Causes
Poisoning in cats is a fairly frequently diagnosed phenomenon, usually occurring at lightning speed or acutely. It should not be ruled out that this condition can also occur in a severe, protracted form. If appropriate measures are not taken, poisoning can cause serious functional disorders in the digestive tract and other organs and systems.
The main reason that can provoke poisoning in furry purrs is the hunting instinct inherent in nature, the thirst for independent research. Cats are very curious, inquisitive and very smart creatures, with well-developed hearing and sense of smell.
Cats, freely walking the streets, happily hunt for mice, birds, insects, and other attractive “prey.” In addition, furry purrs are not averse to tasting plants, new substances or game. Do not forget that rodents, pigeons, and other types of birds can be carriers of dangerous bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
In addition, it must be taken into account that infection of pets occurs not only through contact with infected individuals, but also through nutrition, by eating food contaminated with bacteria, forbidden “delicacies”, which can lead to severe food poisoning.
The main causes of poisoning in cats:
- entry into the body of potent toxic substances, poisons, chemicals;
- overdose of pharmacological drugs;
- ingestion of heavy metals (lead, aluminum);
- eating plants that are dangerous to animals;
- bites of poisonous insects, snakes;
- low-quality feed, stale food;
- severe helminthic infestations.
Poisoning in cats can be caused by poor-quality, stale, moldy food, water infected with viruses and bacteria. The cats will not refuse to try the culinary delights from our table. At the same time, you need to remember that smoked foods, sausages, spicy, salty foods, and other forbidden delicacies can provoke poisoning of your pet. Therefore, strictly remember that you need to feed cats with special professional industrial food of “premium”, “elite” class or natural food prepared especially for your beloved cat.
The greatest danger to the life and health of cats is observed when poisoning with potent chemicals - herbicides, insecticides, rat poison. For example, when hunting for a mouse, you should not rule out the fact that it is infected with dangerous viruses that release endotoxins, which contribute to the development of severe intoxication.
Cats by nature are very clean animals that constantly take care of their hygiene by licking their luxurious fur coat. At the same time, when washing your face with your paw, if there are particles of dangerous chemicals on the surface of the hairs, if they get on the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, through microcracks, wounds, abrasions, cuts on the skin, they can cause poisoning.
Poisoning in cats can be caused by tobacco smoke, household chemicals - detergents, bleaches, powders used in the household, antifreeze. Some types of indoor plants can cause severe poisoning in cats.
Dangerous indoor flora for cats:
- dieffenbachia;
- ivy;
- dracaena;
- alocasia;
- scindapsus;
- digitalis;
- philodendron;
- syngonium;
- spatephylium;
- ficus;
- exotic plant species.
Advice! Cats that do not leave their house or apartment try to clear their stomachs of hairballs and other substances by eating indoor plants that can cause harm to the body. Taking into account the physiological needs of animals, purchase special ready-made food that promotes hair removal. You can also germinate a special “grass” in containers, the seeds of which are sold in veterinary pharmacies.
The cat's body is susceptible to the effects of various acids and alkalis. Mercury, phosphates, and nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizers used for garden crops and ornamental plants are especially dangerous for cats.
We should not forget the fact that many people treat our smaller brothers inhumanely. Dog hunters appropriately add deadly baits, poisoned “treats” for animals containing strong poisons.
For example, for the intentional poisoning of cats and dogs, the drug most often used is isoniazid, a drug prescribed for the treatment of tuberculosis in humans. And this, unfortunately, is the most pressing and pressing problem of modern society.
Important! In order not to provoke the development of poisoning in a cat, when carrying out therapeutic, preventive deworming, using insecticidal and acaricidal drugs, sedatives, strictly adhere to the established dosage, which is indicated in the instructions.
Representatives of the cat family, unlike dogs, cannot be forced or taught not to pick up food from the ground, much less prohibited from hunting birds, rodents, and insects. Of course, if your pet is well-fed and happy with life, the animal will not look for food or pick up tidbits outside the home. However, no one has canceled natural instincts. A cat, kitten, cat can easily become poisoned by picking up inedible food from the surface of the ground or catching the desired prey.
Owners of furry purrs should have a good understanding of the symptoms of poisoning and know how to help the animal at home before the veterinarian arrives. In some cases, especially when cats are poisoned with strong poisons or chemicals, you need to act extremely quickly, noticing the first appearance of characteristic symptoms.
The method for determining Novichok has not been validated
Evgeniy Kovalev, a narcologist, chief physician at the Intensive Care Clinic of JSC Vrachi, an expert in healthcare organization, told Pravda.Ru methods for detecting chemical substances have become hypersensitive. For example, if you sit near the Moscow Ring Road for 5-6 hours, you can detect both polonium and thallium .
In addition, the determination method and sensitivity of the methods are of great importance, the expert continued. He explained that the method for detecting Novichok through communication with cholinesterase is not publicly available, so it is not considered approved or validated.
“For example, somewhere in Cyprus in an ordinary laboratory, if I have certain instruments, I must reproduce this method. I have a spectrometer, I have basic reagents. I should be able to reproduce this method in Brazil, and in Russia, and anywhere – the same way,” said Evgeny Kovalev.
“Until they publish the methodology, this is nothing to talk about ,” he added.
Place 10. Velcro traps
Not the most effective and not very fast in operation, such traps have an important advantage - absolute safety for humans and pets.
This is the quality for which, in the case of a small number of cockroaches, sticky traps should be preferred: using such traps does not require weeding cockroaches with special sprays and powders. Traps are simply placed in areas where insects can move.
Thus, this is an ideal remedy in situations where Prussians do not live in the house permanently, but often visit from neighbors.
Cockroach repellent and Novichok leave the same mark
Secondly, according to the doctor, “we still need to make sure whether the molecule is the right one or the wrong one, and if we are talking about a technique, then we need to say what concentration of these molecules is effective.”
For example, in London, Chinese athletes were caught using clenbuterol, but it turned out that they ate chicken and ducks, which were fed with clenbuterol so that they grew better, said Evgeny Kovalev.
“The point is that there are such small concentrations that they do not affect the effect, that is, the athletes were recognized as “clean ,” he added.
“There may also be similar substances . For example, I went to a hotel, and they had recently killed cockroaches and used organophosphorus substances. Most of them are reversibly inhibited into cholinesterase, but, nevertheless, some are irreversibly inhibited. If we take motor neurons from the spine and do a biopsy, it is quite possible that I could have the same result as the respected politician,” continued Evgeny Kovalev.
Place 3. Gel Globol
No fundamentally different from other gels, Globol is simply very effective. Experiments have shown that one drop of it is enough to poison 500 cockroaches - as with the Bedbug Executioner, with Globol the Germans very diligently approached the problem of how to poison the cockroaches and not get poisoned themselves. Globol is used in the same way as other gels.
Review
“As a result, we bought two tubes of Globol. Expensive, but promising. We were thinking about how to properly poison cockroaches with it, we asked on the forum. They made paths out of them all over the balcony and under the tiles, and waited a few days. A week later, the corpses of the fallen began to be found under the bedside tables. In general, we didn’t find much, but the cockroaches themselves stopped appearing at all, as if they weren’t there at all. Perhaps they died in their holes.”
Ivan Savelin, Astrakhan
It is important to remember that the Russian market today is flooded with copies of the gel under the names Global and Global. Globol must be written on the packaging of the original product, and the rest of the inscriptions must be in German. The effectiveness of counterfeit products has not been verified by real tests!
What diseases do cockroaches carry?
It has been established that baleen parasites are carriers of a large number of serious diseases. The harm that representatives of the cockroach order cause to human health has even received a separate name - blattopterosis .
So, cockroaches carry the following diseases:
- dysentery;
- salmonellosis;
- hepatitis;
- pneumonia;
- tuberculosis;
- meningitis;
- diphtheria;
- tetanus;
- fungal diseases.
On their legs and chitinous cover, insects carry eggs of helminths (pinworms, tapeworms, whipworms), and therefore can cause helminthiasis.
The presence of cockroaches in preschools and schools is very dangerous. Without proper compliance with sanitary standards, children are at high risk of contracting infectious diseases.
