Treatment of cat fatty liver:

1. Improve the cat’s diet and eat some feed with higher protein and calories.

2. If the affected cat has a normal appetite, there is no need to force feed it. If it continues to have no appetite, it can be fed easily digestible liquid food through a feeding tube. After the feeding tube is left in place, it needs to wear a collar to Protect feeding tubes.

3. If a cat suffers from dehydration symptoms, the animal’s hydration status and ion balance must be improved in a timely manner. Vomiting in cats often causes potassium loss, so pay attention to checking the blood potassium value.

The reasons why cats have fatty liver:

1. It is caused by the accumulation of excess fat in the cat’s liver, causing lesions. When a cat does not eat for a long time, the body will mobilize to break down a large amount of peripheral fat to provide energy. In the process, triglycerides are formed and enter the liver, and continue to accumulate around liver cells, causing liver damage and eventually Leading to liver failure or even death.

2. It is related to the owner’s long-term feeding of low-protein, high-fat and high-carbohydrate foods, stress, lack of exercise, hunger, and insufficient anti-fatty liver substances.

3. Acute and chronic hepatitis, infectious and parasitic diseases, chronic pancreatitis and various chronic metabolic diseases, diabetes, etc. can also cause cats to suffer from fatty liver.