Part of people believes that the organism of a cat in comparison with human is rather primitive. Actually, the cat to all other possesses a complex endocrine system, and these lovely small animals can sometimes have hormonal failures. How to reveal them, than they are dangerous, and the main thing is what to treat a cat at whom hormones "rebelled"?
Unfortunately, just as people, at cats have problems in an endocrine system. It is necessary to reveal, make them in due time the diagnosis and to appoint the correct treatment, otherwise the quality of life of an animal significantly worsens. By what signs it is possible to determine that your pet has a hormonal failure?
Symptoms of hormonal failure at a cat
There is a number of signs which have to force the owner of a cat to suspect that his favourite had a hormonal failure. First of all, this sharp increase in amount of the drunk water, and, respectively, the speeded-up urination. The most disturbing symptoms which can demonstrate any given endocrine violations in an organism of an animal is a severe obesity or, on the contrary, sharp loss of weight. Quite often at a cat wool begins to drop out, up to full baldness on some parts of the body – a so-called focal alopetion. The most serious consequences of hormonal failure at a cat are tumors, both good-quality, and malignant.
The reasons of endocrine deviations at a cat
Long overfeeding of an animal can become the cause of diabetes. Hormonal medicines which many owners give to the cats during their sexual hunting were and remain problem No. 1 which leads to deviations in work of an endocrine system of an organism of an animal. Such medicines do to an animal huge harm and can even lead to oncological diseases. If you do not plan to be engaged in cultivation of cats, and your favourite is not a thoroughbred breeding animal, it is much more humane to sterilize her, but not to stuff with tablets and drops.
How to treat hormonal failure at a cat
If the doctor-veterinarian concluded that the cat has not enough some natural hormone – the diagnosis "гипотериоз" is made - that competent replacement therapy guarantees long life to your favourite. Most often to a cat lifelong intake of hormonal medicines on which her health depends is appointed. For the rest it is possible to call an animal almost completely healthy. If at a cat diabetes of insulin-dependent type, then she appoints daily injections of insulin in the dosage which is picked up by the veterinarian. In case the disease came far and at a cat tumors developed – most often they arise on mammary glands and ovaries – expeditious treatment is shown. Along with operation on removal of new growths the sterilization of an animal is carried out. In most cases the recurrence of an endocrinological disease does not arise. If the animal with any pathology in an endocrine system in due time receives correct doses of necessary medicines and is under observation of the competent expert, then it with high degree of probability will live long and happy life.