What to do if cats are malnourished? How to improve it?

What should I do if my cat is malnourished? How to improve it? Cats are round and strong. First of all, from a visual perspective, they give people a full and prosperous beauty. In addition, it is also a manifestation of health for cats. A thin cat always looks sick. The weakness or strength of a cat is often related to nutrition. However, malnutrition is not only related to the cat's figure, but also leads to secondary diseases. Therefore, owners should pay attention to balanced nutrition when feeding cats.

1. How to diagnose cat malnutrition?

1. Weight loss by 10%

2. Loss of appetite or lack of appetite has been more than 5 days; or it has only been more than 3 days now, but it is expected that animals will not eat in the next two days

3. There may be nutritional loss

4. The body condition of this animal needs high nutritional support

5. Chronic diseases

6. Albumin less than 2.5

2. Malnutrition causes cat hair to lose

Cat hair is also a reflection of cat quality of life. Cats with good nutrition should have smooth and shiny hair. If the cat has dry and dull hair, and the hair is easily broken and fall off, it may be that the cat has malnutrition problems. Generally speaking, cats with weak gastrointestinal function, cats with long hair (such as Persian cats, etc.), and cats with single food are prone to lose hair due to malnutrition.

3. What should I do if I have malnutrition?

In principle, if a cat is malnourished, then it is natural to find a way to strengthen the cat's nutrition. There are several ways to supplement nutrition for cats. First, prepare nutritious and comprehensive foods; second, use some nutrients (such as vitamin tablets, calcium tablets, etc.) to supplement nutrition for cats; third, when necessary, you may also need to use infusion to supplement nutritional energy for cats.

Pet cats need protein, water, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, vitamins, trace elements and many other nutrients. Once a cat is inadequate intake of nutrition, its growth will be affected. If the bones cannot develop and grow, the cat will grow weakly and its physical resistance will be extremely poor. Cats are more likely to get sick and be harmed.

For cats with weak gastrointestinal function, they should start by regulating the gastrointestinal intestines and use some medicines or nutritional products to regulate the gastrointestinal intestines, such as the Intestine Formula for the Cat, Weishili Intestine, etc. Only when the gastrointestinal conditioning is done well can the nutrients be absorbed and the health of the cat's hair and body are ensured.

For cats with long hair, the nutrients they absorb are difficult to meet the needs of hair care. Just like humans, if they have long hair, they are prone to hair breakage, bifurcation, etc., so you must use additional hair-beautifying nutritional products, such as nutritional hair powder and beauty oil. The trace elements contained in hair-beautifying nutritional products can ensure the health of cats' hair.

4. What are the approximate methods of nutritional supplementation?

1. Vein

2. Feed directly with your mouth. Force feeding

3. Use nasofesting tube

4. Put a tube directly into the esophagus

5. Put the tube on the stomach

6. We can put a tube in the jejunum. It means that nutrition goes directly to the jejunum

For malnutrition caused by the treatment of some diseases, first of all, the animal's vital signs must be stabilized. Is it normal to have the ability to protect its respiratory and gastrointestinal tract functions? If the animal does not have the ability to protect the respiratory tract, it may vomit or choke after feeding; or if it has poor gastrointestinal function, it makes no sense to give it from the mouth or the esophageal tube. At this time, you should directly consider using TPN to give it nutrition from the veins.