Tapeworm disease is kind of common feline verminosis. Various tapeworms including Hydatigena taeniaeformis, D.caninum and T.hydatigena, usually parasitize in feline small intestine. Tapeworm features flat abdomen and belly, bilateral symmetry is strip-shape opaque white or ivory worm with length from several millimeters to several meters. Worm body can be divided into scolex, neck and arthromere. There are fixed organs on small ball-shape or shuttle-shape scolex. Neck whose procreation function can continuously develop arthromere is thin without segments. Arthromere consists of "baby node", "adult node" and "pregnant node". Matured pregnant node will peel off from arthromere and be discharged with stool. The moving small worms on surface of stool is pregnant node we have referred.

　　Tapeworm parasitizing in cat will absorb nutrition and thus influence cat's growth. When many tapeworm accumulates together to conglobation that will jam into enteric canals, which will produce ventral ache, enteric twist and even enteric rupture. According actual cases, ill cats will get chronic enteritis, diarrhea, sometimes diarrhea and constipation by turns, vomit, dyspepsia, anemia or grave debility. Anus will suffer pain and inflammation if pregnant node is attached to anus. Accordingly, you have to send cat with tapeworm disease to hospital for formal treatment. And today's medicine to cure the disease is various, such as PraziQuantel Biltricide.

　　 Constipation is common among cats, while frequently invading old cats, kitty and valetudinarian cats.
　　 vPathogeny: Elements causing constipation in particular: (1) unfavorable food, feeding and environment: cat always picks up food, and only enjoy meet, animal's liver, fish, less water supply for a long time, less activity; (2) mechanical press or obstruction element: polypus in cat's recta and anus, tumor, anus gland cyst, prostate hyperplasia, embryo press, etc. (3) other elements: helminth in enteric canal, old age, etc.
　　vSymptom: No discharge of stool for two or three days, bad appetite or even eating nothing, ventral swelling, suffering from no drainage, being nervous, miaow or vomit. Sausage-like stool can be discovered while touching abdomen. Dry and hard stool ball while examining directly.
　　vTreatment: Clysis can be applied for simple constipation. Moist discharge for stool as hard as stone by plant oil or olefin oil. Chinese traditional medical methods are also effective.

　　vPathogeny: Ascariasis characterized by diarrhea and weight loss is kind of wireworm disease caused by toxocara parasitizing in cat's small intestine.
　　 vSymptom: Larva moving can produce peritonitis, parasite pneumonia, liver daminification and encephalomyelitis. Adult parasite will absorb nutrition, and gravely simulate mechanical performance of intestines, which will induce enteric hemorrhage, digestive function turbulence, vomit, diarrhea and then weight loss, slow growth, swelling abdoment. When parasites accumulate more and more, ileus will appear. Simultaneously ascarid will excrete a wide variety of toxin, which will bring out neurosis and hypersusceptible reaction.
　　vPrevention: ① Clean environment, meal utensil, and food. Timely worm removal for kitties.
　　　　　　　　②Worm removal please refers to that of dogs.