How to help cats reduce the body of the hair ball?
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2024-08-27 14:03
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In daily life, cats often use their tongues to comb their fur, and there are some small barbs on their tongues, which mainly help cats swallow food. When a cat combs its coat with its tongue, it causes some of the floating hair on its body to be swallowed. These floating hairs accumulate over time and slowly accumulate in the cat's stomach to form hairballs. Excessive hair balls can cause gastric motility obstruction and even intestinal obstruction.
cat spit hair ball is what kind of scene?
When the number of hairballs in the cat's stomach reaches a certain amount, the cat will vomit and spit out the hairballs in the stomach. Vomit visible obvious hair ball, is generally long strip. Cats often spit hairballs at intervals of more than three months. For short-haired cats, it should not be less than two months apart. If cats vomit frequently, it may be a sign of chronic small intestinal disease, and they should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.
to the hair ball to eat hair cream okay?
For the cat's hair ball problem, cat parents are also more worried. People often buy hair creams and other hair products for cats to eat to help cats melt their hair. In fact, most hair creams contain petrolatum and mineral oil, which is not absorbed by the body and acts as an intestinal lubricant. Many cat friends may not know the composition of hair cream, and even some cat friends said that they would give cats a few mouthes of hair cream every day, so that cats would have soft stools or diarrhea. From the composition, hair cream does have a laxative effect on lubricating intestinal tract.
Some hair cream palatability is very good, cats love to eat, it is usually because it contains attractant ingredients. Generally speaking, hair cream products are not recommended to be used more than twice a week, because mineral oil can inhibit the body from absorbing fat-soluble vitamins, resulting in the lack of vitamins in cats, which will affect the health of cats for a long time.
Is there any other way to change hair?
Of course there are, listed one by one below:
1. Egg yolk
Egg yolk is rich in nutrition and is an important source of protein, vitamins and minerals. Egg yolk contains vitamins A,D,E,B1,B2,B6,B9 (folic acid),B12, choline, calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc and selenium. Egg yolk also contains about 2-3 grams of protein, of which egg yolk lecithin and choline play an important role in cat hair.
Egg yolk lecithin is a fat emulsifier, it will emulsify the fat that binds the hair ball, affecting the cat hair in the stomach to condense into a mass, so that the hair in the intestines and stomach is more easily excreted with feces.
Let's look at choline again. The choline component is acetylcholine. As the main neurotransmitter of the autonomic nervous system (including the gastrointestinal tract), acetylcholine promotes the contraction and peristalsis of the gastrointestinal muscle layer, so that the hair can be discharged with the feces in time.
2. how much egg yolk to eat appropriate?
According to veterinarian Jill Bowen, eggs contain about 100 calories. Because the average adult cat can only eat 400 calories a day, if you feed too much egg yolk, your cat may become obese and even develop fatty liver. Therefore, it is advisable for cats to eat 1 to 2 egg yolks a week.
Special Note: In addition to improving gastrointestinal motility, acetylcholine also increases gastrointestinal secretions. This may exacerbate gastrointestinal ulcers, so use caution if your kitten has gastrointestinal ulcers, or consult a veterinarian.
3. Can raw egg yolk be given to cats?
Don't feed your cat raw eggs. This is the consensus of many veterinarians and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Feeding our cats raw or undercooked eggs puts them at risk of salmonella, E. coli and campylobacter.
Salmonella is a type of bacteria that causes food poisoning and intestinal diseases. In most cases, this is obtained through contaminated meat, poultry. Raw eggs may also contain a protease called avidin. This avidin protease is able to reduce the absorption of vitamin B of biotin, which is essential for the health of cats. So, please feed your cat boiled egg yolks.
Tip: Some cats are allergic to eggs. Parents of cats should pay more attention to the allergy of cats at home.
4. Combing frequently
Frequent grooming of your cat makes it easy to comb off the floats so that the cat won't swallow too much floats when grooming its own coat.
5. Planting cat grass
Cat grass is generally oat and wheat seeds. Cat grass can promote cats to spit out hairballs in their stomachs, clean up their digestive tracts, reduce gastrointestinal pressure and supplement folic acid to absorb nutrients.
Put grass water dispenser here. This is an all-in-one machine for drinking water and planting grass. The seeds of cat grass are wheat seeds and can germinate in about 3-5 days. Cat grass can help cats spit out hair balls. Please prepare a copy for your little darling.
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