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My 14-year-old cat stopped eating 3 days ago; tests show kidney failure. How serious is it?
Cat kidney failure is acute or chronic. Acute can often be treated; chronic is progressive and incurable, needing hydration, diet, and monitoring.
What to do when a dog vomits and has diarrhea?
Vomiting and diarrhea severely irritate the gut and can cause dehydration or death, so treat or give fluids by cause. Causes include bad food, distemper, parvovirus or foreign bodies.
What medicine treats canine parvovirus?
Parvo is treated with supportive care: antiviral injections (parvovirus inhibitory protein, interferon), targeted antibiotics, anti-vomiting/diarrhea medicine, fluids, and pain relief. Vaccinate to prevent it.
Cat Trichomoniasis: Soft Stools, Diarrhea, and What to Do
Cat trichomoniasis is caused mainly by Tritrichomonas foetus, a protozoan that lives in the large intestine and triggers colitis — think frequent soft, bloody stools. It spreads easily via the fecal-oral route, so isolate sick cats and disinfect. The main treatment is ronidazole plus gut support; most cats recover within 2 years.
Is Feline Leukemia Contagious? What Every Cat Owner Should Know
Feline leukemia (FeLV) is contagious — but only between cats and other pets, never to people. It's a retrovirus spread through saliva, nasal fluid, urine, and milk that weakens the immune system. There's no cure, so prevention matters: vaccinate kittens, keep cats away from strays, and test and isolate any new cat for two weeks.
How Is Canine Parvovirus Treated?
Parvo treatment includes immune serum, fluid therapy, antibiotics, anti-vomiting, anti-shock care and supportive nursing. Early serum plus antibiotics works well, but avoid long-term antibiotic use. Vomiting and diarrhea require fluids to prevent dehydration.
What Medicine Helps When a Dog Vomits?
The right medicine depends on the cause over-eating, irritants, gastroenteritis, pancreatitis, parasites, or viruses like distemper and parvovirus. Probiotics help with indigestion; vet fluids and probiotics for gastroenteritis; targeted dewormers for parasites; IV treatment for viral infections.
What are the symptoms of enteritis in dogs?
The main symptoms of dog enteritis include loose stools, bloody stool, and vomiting. The causes are varied, including viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections, pancreatitis, and foreign objects scraping the intestines. Parvovirus and coronavirus infections commonly occur in unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated puppies.
What is the correct way to treat dog heatstroke?
Move to shade and ventilation, rinse with room-temperature water, apply an ice pack wrapped in cloth to the forehead to cool. Give cooling medicine; if severe, give saline for fluids then rush to a vet for heart stimulants. Dogs sweat little and overheat easily — avoid walks in heat and keep water up.
Why is my dog vomiting and having diarrhea?
Usually acute gastroenteritis from bad diet, bacteria, virus, toxin or worms. See a vet to avoid dehydration; treat with anti-inflammatory, anti-diarrhea and anti-vomit meds plus fluids. Virus needs interferon; parasites need deworming after; toxin needs induced vomiting and lavage.