Cats will lose a lot of hair during the hair change season. This also makes the cat swallow a certain amount of hair into the stomach and intestines during combing the hair. Since the pancreatic digestive enzymes in the body cannot completely decompose it, they will expel the hairballs from the body through self-emesis. Almost all cats have the condition of spitting out hair balls. The longer the hair, the more they like to lick, the higher the frequency of spitting out hair.

However, it is not a natural phenomenon for cats to vomit hair, but more like an early symptom of acute enteritis. Cats usually have a gastric emptying time between 15 minutes and 2 hours. When gastrointestinal motility is normal, the cat's hair swallowed during the period should be completely discharged rather than accumulated, and even become a hairball.

Note: Any cat who vomits more than 2 times a month is very likely to suffer from chronic small intestinal disease; short-haired cats (such as Siamese cats, Sphinx cats, etc.) vomits more than 1 time every February, then the situation is the same.

The difference between vomiting hairballs and vomiting in cats, how do cats vomit hairballs?

1. Complications caused by hairballs

· Hairy bulbism: Continuous vomiting, dry retching without producing hairballs, resulting in symptoms such as loss of appetite, drowsiness, constipation and diarrhea.

· Intestinal obstruction: an advanced version of erectile dysfunction. The erectile dysfunction blocks the stomach and intestines, vomits whatever the cat eats, and then dehydrates and internal organ failure. It requires immediate surgery for treatment.

Note: If the above symptoms occur, it is recommended to rush to the nearby hospital for treatment immediately.

2. Basic coping methods

· Regular combing: The more you comb the fallen hair, the more you can reduce the amount of hair in your cat's belly and facilitate excretion.

· Distracting attention: If a cat is compulsive to combing her hair, try to divert attention with toys or other activities.

· Dietary Assistance: Eating special cat food, cat grass (at least the minimum daily dose) and hair cream (too much feed can easily cause cats to soften stools), etc. can promote gastrointestinal motility, and egg yolks (1-2 egg yolks per week, 2-3 long-haired cats, within one month of onset) can also reduce the risk of cat hair retention.

The cat spitting of hair balls is just a common type of vomiting symptoms, and seemingly harmless vomiting should not be ignored anymore. Especially long-term inertial vomiting is abnormal, but many parents are accustomed to these vomiting, which leads to the fact that it is too late to find that the cat is obviously discomfort.

Symptoms of vomiting that require timely medical treatment

· Frequent vomiting (multiple times in a day or several consecutive days)

· Dietary changes (loss appetite, frequent drinking of water, etc.)

· Blood in the vomit

· Combined symptoms such as diarrhea, dehydration, mental depression

Common causes of vomiting

1. Disease

· Colitis

· Gastrointestinal ulcer

· Heartworm infection

· Intestinal obstruction

· Renal/hepatic failure

· Neurological disease

· Stomach/intestinal tumor

2. Diet

· Overeating

· Food temperature is too cold

· Irregular diet (too long intervals)

· Diet speed (especially families with multiple cats at home, there will be competitive mentality)

· Swallowing foreign bodies

· Food poisoning/allergic

3. Others

· Stress reactions (motion sickness, changing environment/food, etc.)

· Parasites

· Constipation

· Basic treatment methods

· Gastric juice (viscous transparent liquid, with a little white foam/brown green): It is a good thing to eat more and keep the cat's normal gastric juice secretion level.

· Undigested food: You can mash the food into a paste/wet food, feed it less each time, and enter the esophagus a little bit.

· I vomited as soon as I eat: It may be that the cat is allergic to food, so I can feed it prescription food with hypoallergenic formula.

Before taking the cat to the hospital, it is recommended to pay attention to (or take pictures) the appearance of the vomit (color/odor/abnormal), when to start vomiting, how many times, the time of the last time, the medications taken, changes in the cat's living environment, changes in diet, abnormal behavior and diarrhea (preferably carrying samples). Cats are good at disguising. Only by paying attention to the most subtle changes can the doctor provide more accurate treatment.

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