In dry weather, dogs and cats are prone to defecation difficulties, dryness, and even screaming because of pain, which makes the owner feel distressed. So how to relieve cat constipation?

Cat intestinal constipation, also known as constipation, is a digestive system disease caused by incomplete or complete intestinal obstruction due to intestinal motility and secretion disorders, stagnation and drying of intestinal contents. The disease is more common in the colon and rectum of cats, especially in young cats, older cats, and long-haired cats.

The longer the constipation lasts, the more difficult it is to treat. In severe cases, autopoisoning or other diseases may occur and the condition will worsen. There are three factors that lead to the disease:

1. Feeding and management: such as long-term feeding of dry food, lack of drinking water, cannibalism of human hair and foreign bodies, lack of exercise and sudden changes in feed, environment and management and other factors may induce the disease.

2. Diseases: Painful defecation diseases (such as rectal polyps, proctitis, rectal strictures, tumors, anal abscesses, etc.), constipation occurs due to the disappearance of normal bowel movements.

3. Self: Diseases with defecation disorder (such as medullary joint dislocation, pelvic fracture and hind limb fracture, etc.) can cause constipation.

Symptoms:

In the early stage, the sick cat defecates forcefully, expelling a small amount of dry stool with mucus, or a small amount of foul-smelling loose stool. In the late stage of the disease, the sick cat may appear restless, try to defecate, but it is difficult to expel it, nervous, chirping, and frequently reviewing the abdomen. Then appetite loss or abolition, depression. Some vomit, obvious tenesmus, abdominal enlargement, and intestinal bloating.

How to relieve cat constipation?

1. Enema therapy: suitable for mild and simple constipation. Use 40--80 ml of warm soapy water to fill the intestines with an enema, and moderately press the fecal mass in the intestinal tract with the outside of the abdomen. Generally more effective.

2. Drug therapy: take appropriate amount of laxatives orally. Such as magnesium sulfate 5--30 grams or liquid paraffin oil 5--50 ml, orally.

3. Surgical therapy: For severe intestinal constipation, if the above methods fail to work, surgery can be performed to remove the feces from the intestinal lumen.

Alternative:

You can give the kitten a spoonful of salad oil to lubricate his bowels. 10ml at a time, feeding 2--3 times should help. In addition, you can give him a little milk, but not too much, usually the bottom of a bowl is enough.