The pancreas is a digestive organ with low presence but very important in animals. When cats have inflammation and other diseases, they often only have atypical symptoms, such as depression, loss of appetite, and weight loss... The disease slowly extends its claws to the pancreas and other organs, constantly tortures the cat, and can be called the "invisible killer" of cats.
What is acute pancreatitis in cats?
Acute pancreatitis is a serious reaction of pancreatic tissue caused by various causes that pancreatic enzymes are activated in the pancreatic (normal pancreatic enzymes should not be activated in the pancreatic), which then digests its own pancreatic tissue, resulting in edema, bleeding and even necrosis of pancreatic tissue. There are three difficulties in acute pancreatitis in cats, namely, it is difficult to find the cause, difficult to diagnose, and difficult to treat. Cats of all ages may become ill.
Clinically, it is characterized by sudden anterior abdominal pain, shock and peritonitis. The course of most cats can be divided into two stages, namely the depletion phase and the late stage of the disease.
Cats with acute pancreatitis usually have very similar symptoms during the depletion period to the clinical characteristics of many internal and external intestinal diseases with acute abdominal symptoms, and have no obvious characteristics, which are easily despised or ignored by parents. Therefore, parents need to send cats to regular hospitals in time when they develop the symptoms described in the consumption period above, and doctors can diagnose them to avoid delaying the condition.
The current treatment methods are mainly symptomatic treatment and supportive therapy, including rebuilding the integrity of the circulatory system, maintaining the balance of body fluids and electrolytes, reducing pancreatic secretion, relieving pain, and anti-infection. The main treatment principles are infusion treatment and fasting to avoid stimulating pancreatic secretion and causing the condition to worsen.