What should I do if the cat is malnourished? How to improve it? The cat is round and strong. First of all, from the visual point of view, it gives people a plump and solid beauty, and it is also healthy for cats. A manifestation, a thin cat always looks sickly, so the thinness or fitness of the cat is often related to nutrition, but malnutrition is not only related to the cat's body, but also can lead to various diseases 's succession. Therefore, owners should pay attention to a balanced combination of nutrition when feeding cats.

I. How to diagnose malnutrition in cats?

1. Weight loss by 10%

2. Loss of appetite or no appetite for more than 5 days; Animals will not eat for 2 days

3. There may be a loss of nutrients

4. The animal's body condition requires high nutritional support

5. Chronic disease

6. Albumin less than 2.5   

2. Malnutrition causes cat hair loss

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

Third, what about malnutrition?

In principle, if the cat is malnourished, it is natural to find ways to strengthen the cat's nutrition. There are several ways to supplement nutrition for cats. First, prepare nutritious and comprehensive food; second, match some nutrients (such as vitamin tablets, calcium tablets, etc.) to supplement nutrition for cats; third, when necessary It may also be necessary to supplement the cat with nutritional energy through infusion.

Pets cats need protein, water, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, vitamins, trace elements and many more to grow. Nutrition. Once a cat is not getting enough nutrients, its growth will be affected. If the bones cannot develop and grow, the cat will be weak and the body resistance will be extremely poor. This makes the cat more likely to get sick and get hurt.

For cats with weak gastrointestinal function, they should start with regulating the stomach, and use some medicines or nutritional products to regulate the stomach, such as the development treasure-S cat intestinal whole formula , Weishili intestines, etc., good gastrointestinal conditioning can absorb nutrients and ensure the health of cat hair and body.

For cats with long hair, the nutrients they usually absorb are difficult to meet the needs of hair maintenance, just like humans, if you keep long hair, it is easy to break Hair, split ends and other phenomena are the same, so be sure to use additional beauty hair nutrition products, such as nutritional beauty hair powder, beauty hair oil, and the trace elements contained in beauty hair nutrition products can ensure the health of the cat's hair.

4. What are the methods of nutritional supplementation?

1. Intravenous

2. Feed directly by mouth. Force feeding

3. Use a feeding tube

4. Put a tube directly into the esophagus

5. Put the tube on the stomach

6. We can put a tube on the stomach place of jejunum. That is, the nutrition goes directly to the jejunum   

For malnutrition during the treatment of some diseases, first of all, the vital signs of the animal must be stabilized. This animal has The inability to protect the function of his respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract is not normal. If there is no ability to protect the respiratory tract, the animal may spit out or choke after feeding; or its gastrointestinal function is not good, it is meaningless to give it to him from the mouth or the esophagus, then it is directly to consider On TPN, give him nutrition intravenously.

If the animal has the ability to protect his airway and his gastrointestinal tract is functioning normally, then see if the animal is feeding him by hand Can eat in. If you can, you can feed it directly by hand. If not, you can consider installing a nasogastric tube or further use an esophagogastric tube. Also assess whether the animal can be anesthetized.