One of the most hardly diagnosed diseases at cats is hepatitis. First of all the disease affects a liver of an animal. It is possible to define presence of hepatitis only on the basis of special analyses. However only very attentive owner can notice changes in behavior of a cat.
Hepatitis symptoms at cats
The symptom of hepatitis is the first weakness of a cat. The animal refuses food, sleeps much, its movements become uncertain and it is possible to notice an incoordination. Such weakness, as a rule, is followed by nausea and vomiting.
The yellow shade of mucous membranes is considered distinctive symptom of hepatitis. At cats such changes sometimes cannot be noticed. For example, if the pet has a dark coloring of wool or a non-standard shade of language and an oral cavity. There are breeds to which almost black mucous membranes are peculiar. It is possible to distinguish hepatitis on such symptom only after carrying out attentive and thorough survey of an animal.
Symptoms of hepatitis are also the accompanying changes. The cat has a cough, rattles are clearly heard, the chair can be followed by blood allocations. If such symptoms are already present, then hepatitis developed to a serious stage. The help of the veterinarian to the pet is necessary even in the presence of insignificant manifestations of violation of health.
Treatment of hepatitis
The main condition of successful treatment of hepatitis at cats is observance of a strict diet. After diagnosis of such disease the animal is not recommended to be fed within a day. During this period it is necessary to give to a cat as much as possible liquid. And, if the pet refuses water, then it is entered forcibly by means of the pipette. In a day a strict diet it is possible to resume feeding gradually. It is not necessary to offer the pet food, habitual for it, at once. Several days have to be present at a food allowance broths, easy soups and porridges. Observance of a diet is followed by elimination of associated diseases. The fact is that quite often hepatitis is caused by food poisonings or helminths. The cat should give the medicines intended for treatment of similar diseases. In this case it is better not to self-medicate, and to ask for the help the veterinarian. If not to cure an animal completely, then hepatitis can get more severe form. Pay attention that within ten days from the moment of identification of symptoms of hepatitis you should supply an organism of a cat as it is possible a large amount of nutrients and vitamins. At a food allowance there have to be vegetables and meat. If the animal got used to eat only dry feeds, then it is necessary to begin feeding with canned food. It is desirable to give at the same time preference to special dietary mixes which will not render essential load of the system of digestion and a liver of a cat.