06/06/2022
1̲0̲ s̲t̲e̲p̲s̲ : H̲A̲M̲S̲T̲E̲R̲ health check up 🐹
Check your hamster health in 10 easy steps.
1. 🏋️ Weighing the weight
▶️ Lost weight of 4-5 grams in 1 week of a hamster weighing 100 grams (>3% of its original weight) is considered abnormal. Keep observing other symptoms.
2. 👁👁 Eye check. Around the eyes.
▶️ Starting from observing the size of the two eyes must be the same size. The eyes are not swollen. No eye holes, tears or blood around the eyes. No eye blinking. Eyes closed or twitching. If there is a contaminant around the eyes, you can use MicrocynAH Spray to clean it. Spray with cotton and then wipe it.
3. 🙉 Checking out the earings.
▶️ No wound, no stain inside the ear. No flesh inside the ear and on the ear.
4. 🤧 Nose check and area around the nose
▶️ No nose stains, blood stains, around the nose, no wounds. If found, use MicrocynAH to clean the stains around the nose and touch the wound.
⚠️ If you don't find a stain on the nose, you may find it around your hamster arms/hand. Because when hamster wipe nose with hands it will leave a stain.
5. 🦷 Teeth and a lip check
▶️ We can only check two front teeth because they don't allow us to see deep into the jaw set.
Start by looking at the upper and lower teeth
Lower teeth have longer gums than upper teeth.
Teeth are always yellow. (In hamsters, first born-3 months, teeth color will look bright, not dark yellow like when they grow up)
Check their lips and inside the mouth. If you find wounds, you can use MicrocynAH to clean, disinfect and also stimulate wound healing. The wound heals faster. It's not bitter. I tried it.
6. 🐹 Skin and core line check
▶️ Reversible hair opening to see skin, wounds and abnormal lumps around the body by applying from head to tail.
⚠️ The most common skin problems are redness, inflammation, sometimes thin hair and hair loss. These can be caused by bacterial infections, fungus, yeast or external parasites. Initially, we can use MicrocynAH Spay to clean and disinfect bacteria, fungus, yeast. Yes, it also helps reduce inflammation in the area. Inflamed skin is part of what makes its hair thinner than normal.
7. 🐾 Nails and 4 feet check
▶️ The length of the nail. If the nail is long enough to poke into the meat, it will cause wounds and hurt the hamster's feet so much that he doesn't want to walk anywhere.
⚠️ If you are not confident, you should take him to the vet instead.
▶️ Check wounds or strange things stuck on the foot. It can probably poke into the skin and make it a bruise.
8. 🍎 Checking out the area around the butt
▶️ Must not find any abnormal secretion around the ge****ls or buttocks.
Female hamsters typically have panic and shaky excrements, have a dark white character, where the unusual speculation can be found in dark white, cream, light pink and red, and are often thick and have an unusual odor. In addition, no unusual wounds or lumps were found. This area can be used MicrocynAH to clean because MicrocynAH contains a substance called Hypochlorus acids, which is commonly found in all animals, so it is safe. As far as I have read, this substance is usually unstable, making it very difficult to preserve, but there is a technology that is patented by USA, the name of Microcyn Technology, helps to stabilize this substance without adding stabilizers such as Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) with different technologies. Check if they fill these substances. Another benefit is MicrocynAH has a concentrated intensity that of wound cells, allowing it to not interfere with wound healing.
9. 🚽 Check for the excrement and urine
▶️ The f***s must have a lump on the body, not soft or liquid. Dark color to black. No blood mixed. Normal color of urine can be found in bright yellow, dark yellow and dark yellow. If it is abnormal, it may be sticky and thicker than normal. Or if there is blood mixed, it will be colored Light pink or blood mixed
⚠️ should be taken to the vet as soon as possible.
10. Notice the behavior.
▶️ Check appetite by pouring new food or serving snacks.
▶️Check the amount of water drink. Usually a hamster weighs 100 grams will drink about 5-7 ml of water.
▶️Check the environment by re-positioning objects inside the cage. Look at walking out to explore the cage or digging the cage. All in comparison to each individual's normal behavior. Since hamsters have quite different habits, it is recommended to collect information of the moments that are expected to be normal.
All of this is just a preliminary external body check so that we can notice him often because hamsters are animals that undergoes body changes very quickly, such as flesh lump growth. Just a few days, the size can grow 5-10 times bigger than before. Skin wounds can happen oftenly because accidents are unpredictable, so for peace of mind, a bottle of MicrocynAH Spray at home would be a good idea.
