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Can cats recover from roundworms?

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Created: 2022-04-06 04:30:10

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While healthy adult cats can typically survive a roundworm infestation, large numbers of the parasites can cause serious, even life-threatening symptoms and are a common cause of illness.


How long does it take a cat to recover from roundworms?

On the whole, a cat is likely to re-contract worms shortly after receiving a deworming dosage. It takes about three months for the worms within its body to grow and reproduce to a level that endangers the cat's health.

How Long Can cats live with roundworms?

Whipworm eggs can survive in the environment for up to 5 years, take 11 weeks to mature in the body and can survive in the host for up to 16 months. Cats infected with whipworms may show signs of weight loss, digestive or intestinal issues, and bloody diarrhea.

What happens if roundworms go untreated in cats?

While roundworms are usually easy and inexpensive to treat, untreated cats can experience great discomfort as well as vomiting and diarrhea, and untreated kittens and older cats can face life-threatening malnutrition and pneumonia.

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