Cays contact fleas as does a dog, the fleas are tiny and difficult to detect. Fleas affect cat health by causing itching and sucking the blood from a cat, which can cause skin disease as the cat continues to scratch open the skin. If you've a small kitten, a flea problem can cause the kitten to become anemic due to loss of blood that the fleas feed on. If you live close to the wilderness, hedgehog and rabbits may carry fleas that will attach to the cat and start an infestation.

Control the Flea Problem

The cat health and flea control go hand in hand. If your cat contacts fleas it can bring them in the house and affect other creatures and infest your home with fleas, which takes time to rid your home and creatures of these pesky parasites. Fleas carry many diseases and can transmit these to your cats. The flea will host the tapeworm larval stage and will transmit this to your cat. If this happens, your cat will develop a tapeworm and require medication to kill the tapeworm.

Ridding Your Cat of the Adult Flea

Take care cat fleas, many products today can eliminate the flea from your cat and in some cases your kitten. Kitten affected with fleas have to be a certain age before they can receive treatment for fleas. The old method of destroying the flea was with a dipping solution, today there are many products that are applied directly between the shoulder blades of the cat. These products work well to rid the cat of fleas. Your home will need treatment with a special formula that kills adult fleas and the eggs.

Ridding Your Home of Fleas

Ridding your home of fleas takes time and patience. A special formula that you spray on furniture and carpeting helps to kill the adult fleas and coats the flea eggs to prevent hatching. After spraying this product, you must vacuum the entire house including down inside the furniture and underneath the furniture. In order to protect the cat health, wiping out the flea and eggs requires completion and the vacuum bag discarded right away.

Prevent Infestation from Coming Back

Prevent your cat health from flea problems by continuously vacuuming everyday, until the house is free of the flea and flea eggs. If you use the monthly treatment for your cat, you have to keep this up from month to month and the house should eventually become rid of the pesky and disease carrying fleas. You may have to spray your home one more time depending on how bad the flea problem was before you caught it.

Protection your cat from becoming infested again and your home should become clear of fleas as well because the newly hatched fleas will have no host to live on. The most important thing for your cat health is to prevent such infestation before they happen. Use a commercial flea repellant before the problem starts.