A comprehensive guide to common vomiting problems in cats
1. When gastric juice is spit out
Sometimes cats will spit out a sticky transparent liquid with a little white foam. This is the cat's gastric juice, and sometimes there is a little brown-green in the gastric juice, which is caused by too severe vomiting.
Solution - Eat less and more meals
Do not let the cat's food bowl be vacant for too long. The feeding method of one meal early and one meal late is actually not suitable for cats. It is best to eat less and eat more to maintain the normal gastric juice secretion level of the cat.
2.Undigested food
Sometimes cats may spit out undigested food, such as whole cat food pellets. The vomiting is slender, which is a shape squeezed out through the cat's esophagus. There is less gastric juice in the food, which means that the food is vomited out before it reaches the stomach, which is a reflux.
Solution - Soft Food Wet Food Method
Cats with this problem must eat delicate foods. It is best to feed them completely mashed into paste wet foods, and they must feed them less each time so that the food can pass through the esophagus and enter the stomach bit by bit.
3. Incompletely digested food
This often happens when the cat just finished eating and spit out the food quickly within a few minutes. The spit out food has not been digested, and there are still many formed particles. Sometimes, the cat will spit out the whole piece or whole ball after eating the cat grass.
Solution - Prescription Food
If a cat is intolerant of food, it is best to give it a prescription food with a hypoallergenic formula. It is particularly important to note that cats who are food intolerant are prone to soft stools, so special attention is needed.
4. What is spit out is a bulb
The bulb is a unique behavior of felines. When the hair clumps that are licked into the stomach to a certain extent, it stimulates the stomach and intestines, they will spit out. The hair balls are usually mixed with gastric juice. Sometimes they are just a few faint hairs, and sometimes they are as hard as compressed.
Solution - Frequently comb the hair
Whether it is a long-haired or short-haired cat, you can comb the excess hair away by frequently combing it to reduce the amount of hair that the cat licks into the hair.
Solution - Hair removal products
Home often has some high-fiber hair spit foods or hair removal cream and healthy oils (such as olive oil). Feeding the cat occasionally can lubricate and decompose the hair balls in the body.
5. Vomiting by foreign objects
Once a cat swallows non-edible objects, it may cause serious problems. Cats are curious animals. When they see some small items, they sometimes put them in their mouths or not. In addition to this kind of low-probability mistaken ingestion, some cats suffer from pica and especially like to eat something that cannot be eaten.
Although some foreign objects cannot be digested, they can often be excreted from the body through the intestine. After some foreign objects are swallowed, they absorb a lot of water in the cat's stomach, expand and become larger, blocking the cat's intestines during the downward digestion process, causing other things in the digestive tract to vomit due to reflux.
