What are the symptoms of lipoma in cats?

Feb 10,2024
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Lipoma is a disease that often occurs in older animals. Compared with dogs, cats are much less likely to develop this disease. The number of lipomas is not fixed, it may be single or multiple, so let’s take a look at the specific symptoms of the disease. ​​​​​​

Symptoms of cat lipoma:

General: 1. Exercise intolerance, easily tired 2. Underweight, emaciated, haggard, poor posture 3. Weight loss

Digestive system: 1. Difficulty swallowing, difficulty swallowing 2. Difficulty breathing, difficulty breathing through the mouth, grunting, gasping 3. Swelling of the mouth and tongue, 4. Swelling of the anus and rectum, 5. Occasional vomiting or regurgitation, vomiting

Respiratory system: 1. Abnormal lung or pleural sounds, rales, crackling sounds, wheezing, friction sounds 2. Cough 3. Increased respiratory rate, wheezing, rapid breathing, hyperpnea

Skin system: 1. Sluggish response to percussion in sunken or sunken areas 2. Skin edema 3. Swelling of skin or subcutaneous tissue, masses, lumps, nodules

Musculoskeletal system: 1. Lameness, rigidity, and lameness of the forelimbs 2. Swelling of the forelimbs or upper limbs; masses in the joints or non-joints of the forelimbs or upper limbs 3. Lameness, rigidity, or lameness of the hind limbs or lower limbs 4. Hind limbs or Swelling of the lower limbs; masses at the joints or square joints of the hind limbs or upper limbs

Reproductive system: swelling and mass in the pelvis or perineum

Urinary tract: tenesmus, difficulty in defecation, and difficulty in defecation

Nervous system: anorexia, loss or decrease of appetite, no food intake, stop eating

Sensory system: orbit, periorbital, around the eyeball, corneal swelling, eyeball mass

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