[Etiology]

Gastrointestinal catarrhal, or catarrhal gastroenteritis, is a Inflammation of the mucosal surface, accompanied by disorders of gastrointestinal innervation and digestive dysfunction.

【Symptoms】

The dog has anorexia or abolition. Sometimes there is similar licking addiction, swallowing unpalatable, bitter, nauseating items, and a strong appetite. Bad breath and yawning. Sparse bowel sounds and sometimes constipation. The abdominal pain was obvious, the two forelimbs stretched forward, and the body was lying down in a cold and dark place. Palpate stomach, sensitive, painful. Vomiting, one of the main symptoms, begins to spit out mucus and gastric juices, sometimes mixed with blood, bile, and mucous membrane fragments. Due to vomiting, symptoms of dehydration, sunken eye sockets and reduced skin elasticity occur.

【Treatment】

Prey therapy: Food should be stopped for 24 hours and water should be restricted. After 24 hours, porridge and the like are given. Be careful to eat smaller meals more often.

Elimination of stomach contents: Vomiting at the beginning of the illness does not necessarily have to be stopped. Stopping vomiting is harmful because the stomach is full or ingesting irritating substances. Vomiting can relieve the burden on the stomach and remove harmful contents. discharge. At the beginning of the disease, 3-5ml of apomorphine hydrochloride can be injected subcutaneously to induce vomiting to expel harmful substances in the stomach. When necessary, 20-50ml of paraffin oil is given to the dog or an enema can be used to quickly remove the stomach contents.

Sedation and emesis: quiet rest, intramuscular injection of chlorpromazine 1ml/kg body weight, oral metoclopramide 1-2 tablets, 2 times a day. You can drink coffee from time to time, and you can also use chamomile tea as a drink, which has an antiemetic effect. Severe vomiting can cause water and electrolyte imbalance, and compound sodium chloride solution or 5% dextrose solution can be given intravenously.

Stomach and pain relief: In order to stimulate gastric juice secretion and relieve anorexia, dilute hydrochloric acid is given to dogs, 0.2-1.0ml each time, 3 times a day, diluted with water. Pepsin 0.1-0.5g, add dilute hydrochloric acid, etc., dissolve in water, and take it before feeding. Put 10-20 drops of bitter tincture or gentian tincture in water and take it before feeding. Give yeast tablets, lactase raw, etc. to promote appetite.

Dogs Acute gastrointestinal catarrhal disease is a common clinical disease. It is mostly caused by improper feeding, excessive meat or ingestion of spoiled food It is clinically characterized by digestive disorders, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever and metabolic acid (alkali) poisoning. The disease can be seen in dogs of various ages, genders, and breeds Dogs have a higher incidence of gastrointestinal diseases due to their weak constitution and digestive function.

Acute gastric catarrhal in dogs is a common digestive tract disease. Mostly caused by eating indigestible or spoiled food. The sick dog vomits a lot and loses water and becomes thirsty, but drinking a lot of water can exacerbate the sick dog's vomiting symptoms. In the end, it whines and screams, struggles everywhere, sunken eyeballs, and dehydration. If the disease is not rescued in time or treated improperly, it will cause the death of pet dogs. Therefore, small owners must pay attention to the scientific feeding and management of dogs, ensure that the feed and drinking water are clean, and do not feed moldy and spoiled feed; feeding should be timed and quantitative, and the feed should be adjusted reasonably.

【Causes】

(1) Acute gastric catarrhal experiences unhealed or repeated actions and becomes chronic gastric catarrhal.

(2) Foreign bodies stay in the stomach, causing the gastric mucosa to suffer from long-term chronic stimulation.

(3), neurological and endocrine dysfunction can also cause chronic gastric catarrhal. Symptoms

(1) Depressed spirit, good and bad appetite, often intractable vomiting after eating, and sometimes heterophilia.

(2) Affected dogs and cats suffer from malnutrition, fatigue, and progressive weight loss. Anemia can occur in a few cases, and the visible mucosa is pale and sometimes yellow.

(3), sometimes abdominal pain, when there is bleeding in the stomach, the stool is black.

【Treatment】

Strengthen management: strengthen feeding management and actively treat the primary disease. Provide nutritious and digestible food, and feed it in small amounts and many times.

Stomach-strengthening and spasm-relieving: When gastric acid is deficient, take orally dilute hydrochloric acid 0.2-0.5 ml, pepsin 0.1-0.5 g, 3 times a day, or a bitter stomach medicine. When gastric acid secretion is excessive, oral proglumide 0.1-0.5 g, 3 times a day, or nimethamine 5-10 mg per kilogram of body weight, 2 times a day.

Symptomatic treatment: In cases of vomiting, intramuscular injection of vitamin B6 0.1-0.4 g, 2 times a day. When bleeding, intramuscularly inject 2 to 4 ml of Anluoxue, 3 times a day. In cases of anemia, deep intramuscular injection of 20-100 mg of iron glucan; or oral ferrous sulfate, 0.05-0.5 g for dogs and 0.01-0.05 g for cats, twice a day. If there is abdominal pain, intramuscular injection of 654-2, 0.3 mg for dogs, 0.1 mg for cats; to eliminate inflammation, intramuscular injection of gentamicin 30,000 to 60,000 international units, 2 times a day, etc.

Chronic gastric catarrhal is a non-specific inflammation of gastric mucosal atrophy, hypertrophy, and severe lack of gastric digestive juice. The disease is more common in elderly dogs and cats. We usually treat chronic gastric catarrh in horses with intestinal and stomach medicines that are not very effective.

Because some tissues and organs in the digestive system have been mechanically damaged by parasites and toxins to varying degrees, the digestive function is disordered and the nutrient supply is insufficient. Therefore, sick dogs suffer from prolonged diarrhea, anemia, abdominal enlargement, edema, physical weakness, fatigue, and loss of appetite. Therefore, after expelling internal parasites, it is necessary to use traditional Chinese medicine to strengthen the body and eliminate pathogens, strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, and stop diarrhea. Only by taking a two-pronged approach can we restore gastrointestinal function, enhance physical fitness, and improve body immunity.