Diarrhea, which is “diarrhea”, is a disease that can range from mild to serious for cats. Some minor injuries can be cured on their own. Severe cases may even be life-threatening. Diarrhea can be especially fatal in kittens, so it's a minor illness that shouldn't be taken lightly. So is cat diarrhea dangerous? What are the common causes of cat diarrhea?

Is diarrhea in cats dangerous?

If your cat has soft or mushy stools that are not very formed, have no obvious fishy smell, and are not accompanied by symptoms such as vomiting, fever, loss of appetite, and lack of energy, it may be what we often call "eating problems." "Or maybe I caught a cold. At this time, we need to reflect on whether we have changed the cat’s food?

Or is the meat or canned meat eaten stale? Did you freeze it? If so, please correct it in time and fast the cat for 12-24 hours. Don’t stop drinking water! At the same time, you can feed some drugs that regulate intestinal function such as Guden’s six species of bacteria. In addition, if your cat is taking certain drugs, you also need to check whether the side effects of the drug may cause diarrhea.

When a cat excretes frequently and the feces is watery, it is considered severe diarrhea. At this time, the cat's stool is often accompanied by a pungent fishy smell, and sometimes is accompanied by jelly-like mucus or even blood. At this time, the first thing we need to do is to fast, not to feed it any more food, and to add a lot of water at the same time.

Because diarrhea can easily lead to dehydration, especially for young cats, it can even be fatal. Therefore, when a cat has severe diarrhea, if the cat does not take the initiative to drink water, please try to give it enough water. At the same time, you can feed some Mommy's Love and Montmorillonite Powder. If the cat’s condition does not improve within 24 hours, please take the cat to the hospital as soon as possible.

Tips: It is very dangerous for kittens to have diarrhea. Once watery stools appear, be sure to stop the diarrhea immediately, otherwise they will easily die of dehydration.

What are the common causes of cat diarrhea?

1. Let’s first talk about the reasons that occur in the intestines

1. Dietary reasons. Dietary reasons are the main cause of acute diarrhea and the easiest to solve. Specifically, it includes overeating, sudden changes in diet, food intolerance or allergy (allergy and intolerance are two concepts, food intolerance means that the cat cannot digest the food, such as lactose. Food allergy refers to immune An abnormal reaction of the system to food, the symptoms are not only diarrhea.), food poisoning, etc. Food intolerances are by far the most common cause of food-related diarrhea in cats and can easily lead to osmotic diarrhea.

2. Viral and bacterial infections. Mainly Salmonella, bent rodsbacteria and E. coli. Can easily lead to secretory diarrhea.

3. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD is persistent inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract without any identifiable pathogen or trigger and is one of the most common causes of chronic diarrhea in cats.

4. Parasitic diseases. Including nematodes, giardia, trichomonas.

2. Extraintestinal causes

1. Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI). Normally, digestive enzymes are secreted into the duodenal lumen during meals. When suffering from EPI, the progressive loss of pancreatic islet acinar cells will lead to insufficient secretion of digestive enzymes into the duodenal lumen, resulting in food being unable to be digested properly. The most common symptoms are abdominal pain and diarrhea, usually watery stools.

2. Hyperthyroidism. Hyperthyroidism is what is commonly known as "hyperthyroidism". This is due to excessive secretion of thyroid hormones, which causes increased excitability and hypermetabolism in the body's nervous, circulatory and digestive systems. Diarrhea and eating too much are symptoms of an abnormally high metabolism.

3. Liver disease and kidney failure. Liver disease will cause the body to release more histamine, which will increase the permeability of the intestinal mucosal blood vessel wall, promote the increase of intestinal juice secretion, and then cause diarrhea. Kidney failure can also cause diarrhea, but diarrhea is not the only symptom, so you can judge whether diarrhea is caused by kidney failure through other symptoms of kidney failure, such as frequent urination, oliguria, etc.