What are the symptoms of feline gastritis? How to prevent and treat it?
Nowadays, more and more people like to keep pet cats, but cats are very easy to get sick, and cats can’t talk. How should we know when it gets sick? Feline gastritis is also a rare disease in cats. Are there any symptoms? Let’s give the master a lesson below.
Feline gastritis is a superficial ulcerative inflammation of the gastric mucosa. It is a rare and frequently-occurring disease in cats and is clinically characterized by repeated vomiting.
This disease is often caused by overfeeding cats, or by eating spoiled and indigestible foods (e.g., feeding coats, perpetual growth balls) and feeding stimulant drugs; eating corrosive drugs and secondary infections Sexual gastrointestinal diseases. Inflammation, leptospirosis and gastrointestinal parasitosis.
In addition to the extraordinary characteristics of repeated vomiting, sick cats also suffer from symptoms such as low energy, dehydration, and abdominal pain. A sick cat may have a warm body temperature, be thirsty and eager to drink water, but will immediately experience vomiting once it drinks water. The vomitus is a yellow thick foamy mixture or a yellow-green bile-like substance.
If vomiting is caused by eating corrosives, the vomitus contains gastric mucosal debris and blood. Cat's abdominal pain is disturbed. The abdomen often exhibits resistance and cries before palpation. Sick cats stop eating and smelling dirt. When a sick cat is vomiting, he or she likes to squat or crawl onto a cold floor or quiet corner. The front legs are mostly in a forward leaning posture.
The treatment of this disease should focus on the following aspects:
(1) Stop drinking water 12 hours in advance, change the feed 24 hours before fasting, and feed porridge, broth and milk 24 hours later, and gradually add more fish or chicken.
(2) Cats with small hair balls can vomit on their own, but large hair balls will neither vomit nor pass, or block the intestines. They can be used with 5-10 ml of liquid paraffin orally 2-3 times a day. May penetrate into feces. Apomorphine 1 to 2 mg injected subcutaneously can also be used to vomit hair. If the above methods still fail, please contact your veterinarian.
(3) Antiemetics can be administered by intramuscular injection of chlorpromazine 1.5 mg per kilogram of body weight, 1-2 times a day, and intramuscular or subcutaneous injection of atropine 0.02 mg/kg of body weight, 1-2 times a day; The dosage of metoclopramide is 0.5 mg, 1-2 times a day. If poisoning by non-corrosive substances, start with gastric lavage or enema with 2% sodium bicarbonate solution to remove irritating foreign bodies in the stomach.
(4) Accompany stomach medicine. Take 0.5-1.0 grams of bismuth nitrate orally mixed into a tablespoon of milk, 2-3 times a day; you can also use 300 mg of kaolin, 4 mg of pectin, add water to 1000 ml, orally every 4 hoursTake 10-40 ml; you can also use 1-2 ml of dilute hydrochloric acid, 3 mg of glycopepsin, add water to 2000 ml, and drink it within two days.
If your pet cat still can't turn around well, it is recommended that you send the cat to the hospital immediately for examination and treatment. After the operation, it also needs to rest and cannot eat the previous food immediately!
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