The easiest way to remove cat tear stains is to wipe your cat's eye area with a hot towel or wet wipes every day. Secondly, if the tear stains around the cat's eyes are very stubborn, you can mix starch and boric acid powder to make a paste and apply it on the cat's tear stains. After the paste has dried naturally, wipe it clean with a towel. Removed cat tear stains. In addition, in addition to daily cleaning, owners also need to adjust the cat's diet, keep the diet light, and avoid feeding the cat food that is too oily or salty.
1. Wipe with a hot towel or wet wipe
If the cat has tear stains for a short time, the owner can use a hot towel or wet wipe to gently wipe away the tear stains. It should be noted that it is best to use baby wipes as wet wipes. These wipes generally do not contain alcohol and mint ingredients, which can avoid irritating the cat’s eyes.
2. Use starch and boric acid powder
Boric acid powder is a kind of external skin medicine. It is generally used to relieve itching and swelling of the skin. It is mild and non-irritating. If the cat's tear stains are stubborn and cannot be solved by simple wiping, you can mix boric acid and starch into a paste, and then apply it on the cat's tear stains. After they dry, clean and wipe them to achieve bleaching effect. an effect.
3. Improve the diet
If the owner usually feeds the cat greasy food or contains high salt content, it will easily cause the cat to have tear stains. Therefore, in addition to actively helping cats clean up tear stains, owners must also adjust the cat’s diet structure, feed the cat some light and easy-to-digest food, and encourage the cat to drink more water, so as to reduce abnormal secretion of tears and tear stains as much as possible. of production.
Note: For long-term tear stains, one cleaning may not be able to completely remove them, so the owner must be patient and continue to clean them. If the above measures are ineffective, and the cat also has increased eye secretions and worsened tear stains, it may be caused by nasolacrimal duct obstruction, and the cat needs to be sent to a pet hospital in time for differential diagnosis and medication.