Ultrasonographies are performed for a long time to diagnosis of diseases which are suffered by pets – dogs and cats. This technique allows to obtain objective data on a condition of their internals that is especially important at absence at patients of an opportunity to explain the reasons of indispositions with words. Ultrasonography is used for diagnostics of pathological changes in abdominal organs, heart, eyes and bodies of an urinogenital system.
In what cases the cat will need to make ultrasonography
Ultrasonography will be appointed to your cat when it had such disturbing symptoms as constant vomiting, diarrhea, the loss of weight caused by lack of appetite. It will need to be made if the cat has problems with urination or at its urine there is blood and also when you observe an overall picture of violation of health of an animal: it is in a fever, it weakens, loses interest in life and that always it gave pleasure to it.
Ultrasonography will allow to control a course of disease and process of treatment.
Ultrasonography can be also appointed to an animal by results of blood tests or x-ray researches when they show existence of pathological processes in kidneys, a liver, a pancreas, digestive tract, a spleen, a prostate and a bladder. The cat should undergo inspection and in case tumors were found in it, increase in an abdominal cavity or painful feelings in it is observed.
How to prepare a cat for ultrasonic inspection
As well as in a case with the person, the animal needs also to be prepared for the forthcoming procedure. Before you are in veterinary clinic on inspection, the cat needs be not to fed within 12 hours. Per day, then in 12 hours and once again in 2-3 hours prior to inspection it needs to give tablets of activated carbon – on 1 tablet on each 5 kg of weight of a cat. If it is necessary to examine a bladder, the animal needs to be given to drink water and when investigate intestines, the cat will need to make an enema one couple of hours prior to the procedure.
If at your favourite the meteorizm is observed, within 2-3 days give it espumizan and exclude the products provoking gas generation from its diet. Also you remember what from as far as you with a cat will be able to observe these recommendations, depends and the diagnosis, so and how correct will be the appointed treatment will be how precisely made.
The ultrasonography method is completely safe for an animal, and it can be used in the course of treatment somehow often.
The procedure is completely painless and if your cat is not aggressive, he should not tolerate any inconveniences, the only thing that will be for it unusual is an epilation of wool on a belly. After that special gel will be applied to naked skin of an animal and it should lie down some time on a back or on one side, but these "tortures" will last only 15-20 minutes.