What are the symptoms of cat gastroenteritis? What is the reason for its formation?
Do you cat owners know the symptoms and causes of cat gastroenteritis? The most common symptom of cats is gastroenteritis, which is vomiting and loss of appetite. So are there other symptoms? Hand it over and let's take a look.
Feline gastroenteritis syndrome
When a cat suffers from gastritis and gastroenteritis, the sick cat is characterized by listlessness, slight increase in body temperature, loss of appetite, vomiting and abdominal pain, abdominal disruption, and abdominal joint reexamination. Another characteristic is that thirst is significantly reduced, but vomiting occurs after drinking water. If gastroenteritis is caused by corrosive substances, the vomitus often contains blood and fragments of gastric mucosa. After vomiting, sick cats often sit or crawl on the cold ground or corners. When encountering the abdomen of a sick cat, treatment is often interrupted due to abdominal pain.
The main symptom of gastroenteritis is diarrhea, mucus in the stool, and bad breath. Serious feces will be dark or dark green, occasionally mixed with blood streaks and black blood clots. The sick cat was very tense and stopped pressing and touching. As bowel sounds decrease, and later in the course of the disease, it may be heard on abdominal auscultation. The disease is prone to dehydration and acid-base balance is disrupted. Severe illness, convulsions, toxic dehydration and sacrifice.
Feline gastroenteritis is frequent and typical
Gastroenteritis can occur in cats of all ages.
Young cats are more susceptible to gastroenteritis because their stomachs are shallow and they cannot control their food intake. If they are not fed properly, they can easily cause gastroenteritis.
It is important to emphasize this point here, because many cats are lactose intolerant, so feeding milk to cats, especially cats, is not recommended. They don't have the enzyme lactase, so they can't digest the lactose in milk, so they develop it within a few hours of drinking milk. Soft stool or diarrhea may even lead to death. If the cat still milks, it is best to feed the pet with milk.
Causes of Cat Gastroenteritis
- In the cold season, the abdomen gets cold due to showering and other reasons, and the cold evil invades and harms the spleen and stomach, which can cause diseases; in the hot season, external heat and dampness are not clear, which can cause diseases.
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Uncontrolled feeding, such as feeding too many heavy and greasy substances, or feeding rancid and rancid food, can cause indigestion and can cause spleen and stomach discomfort.
One thing that needs to be noted is that if your pet cat suffers from gastroenteritis, it is recommended that you go to the pet hospital for medical treatment immediately.</p> </p>