Urine indicates the cat's disease, and the cat's physical condition is judged from the urine! Urine, as an excrement of the body, has some abnormal conditions in the metabolism and operation of the cat's body. It has a good indication function, especially for a careful owner, who can often judge what disease his cat has by observing the cat's urine. The observation method of urine can usually start from the two aspects of color and smell. .

I. Color of urine

None Color urine may be a signal of diabetes, chronic interstitial nephritis, and diabetes insipidus. If it is not due to drinking too much water, attention should be paid to the identification.  

White urine is common in purulent, chyluria, and salty urine. Purulent urine is caused by severe purulent infection of the urinary tract, and the urine is milky white. Purulent urine is common in pyelonephritis, cystitis, renal abscess, urethritis, or severe renal tuberculosis.  

Chyluria is one of the main symptoms of filariasis, urine white as milk. Because the chyle (liquid after fat saponification) absorbed by the intestinal tract cannot be drained from the normal lymphatic vessels to the blood circulation, it can only flow back into the lymphatic vessels of the urinary system, resulting in increased intra-lymphatic pressure in the urinary system, varicose and ruptured Chyluria occurs when chylous fluid overflows into the urine. Chyluria is generally paroxysmal. When red blood cells are present in chyluria, it is called chylous hematuria. Salt urine mostly occurs in juvenile cats. It is common in winter. The urine is like rice soup. Most of the urine contains a lot of phosphate or urinary hydrochloric acid. It is easy to precipitate after being placed. Salt in the urine is a normal physiological phenomenon. Can be cured without medication, the key is to drink more water.

Yellow urine means yellow or dark yellow urine. The reasons are: eating carrots, taking riboflavin, dysentery, metronidazole, rhubarb and other Chinese and Western medicines, the urine may turn yellow, once you stop taking it, it will disappear immediately, no need to worry about it.  

Common in cats with fever or vomiting and diarrhea, because water is excreted with sweat or feces, the urine will be concentrated and reduced, but the urea pigment has not changed, so The urine is yellowish in color.  

Another kind of yellow urine like strong tea is not due to the above reasons, but the liver or gallbladder has lesions. It turns out that there are usually two ways for bile to drain out: one from the urine and one from the intestines. When the liver or gallbladder is diseased and the way of bile to the intestine is cut off, it can only be excreted in the urine, and the urine is also dark yellow due to the increased content of bile. In the early stage of hepatitis, jaundice has not yet appeared, and we can often see that the color of urine is like strong tea, which is often a signal of hepatitis. In addition, yellow cloudy pyuria is a manifestation of purulent urinary organs.  

Blue urine can be seen in cholera, typhus, primary hypercalcemia, and vitamin D poisoning. However, more urine of this color is related to taking medicine, not caused by disease. Such as taking the diuretic triamterene, injection of methylene blue or taking methylene blue, indigo carmine, creosote, salicylic acid can appear after. It disappears when the drug is stopped. This kind of blue urine caused by taking medicine is a normal phenomenon and need not be worried.

Tan urine (like the color of soy sauce) can be seen in acute nephritis, acute jaundice hepatitis, renal crush injury, extensive burns, hemolytic anemia, mistype Blood transfusions, or even after strenuous exercise, can produce soy sauce-colored urine.

Second, the smell of urine

Of course, the cat's The abnormal urine smell needs to be distinguished from the normal urine smell. The unique smell of cat urine comes from a compound called feline, which can be decomposed into MMB sulfur. Male cats use MMB sulfur as a pheromone to make female cats. Cats know they are ready to mate. Bacteria in cat feces usually convert uric acid into ammonia, which gives the urine a foul odor. Fuller's earth absorbs the water in cat urine and reacts with ammonia to form a series of acid substances that form cat urine.

The smell of ammonia means that urine has been broken down in the body, which is a symptom of cystitis or urinary retention.  

Apple scent is more common in diabetic acidosis or starvation, and this urine can often lure ants to gather.  

The smell of putrefaction is common in cystitis and suppurative pyelitis.

fecal odor The fecal odor is often present in the urine of sick animals suffering from bladder and colon atrophy.