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Folate (Folic Acid) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Folate deficiency in dogs and cats impairs nucleic acid synthesis, causing megaloblastic anemia, poor appetite, diarrhea, and skin or mouth inflammation. It arises from low-protein or overcooked diets, gut disease, or high demand in pregnancy, and is corrected with folate and good nutrition.
Biotin (Vitamin H) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Biotin (vitamin H) deficiency in dogs and cats causes scaly dermatitis, hair loss, poor growth, and later weakness, diarrhea, and hind-limb paralysis. It is usually due to raw-egg white (avidin) or gut flora imbalance, and is corrected with dietary biotin.
Vitamin E Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin E deficiency in dogs and cats, often with selenium lack, causes skeletal muscle degeneration, reproductive failure, and in cats cerebellar ataxia, plus a fat-tissue inflammation known as yellow fat disease. It is corrected with dietary vitamin E and treatment of any gut disease.
Vitamin D Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin D deficiency in dogs and cats impairs calcium and phosphorus use, leading to rickets in the young and osteomalacia in adults, with bone pain, lameness, and deformities. It is prevented and treated by correcting diet, ensuring sunlight, and veterinary-directed vitamin D and calcium.
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) deficiency in dogs and cats impairs hemoglobin synthesis and nerve function, causing microcytic hypochromic anemia, poor appetite, skin inflammation, and seizures or ataxia. It is corrected with pyridoxine and a balanced diet.
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) deficiency in dogs and cats causes poor appetite, stalled growth, and characteristic lesions of the skin, mouth, and eyes including dermatitis, cheilosis, and corneal clouding. It is corrected with dietary riboflavin and a balanced ration.
Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency in dogs and cats impairs glucose metabolism and especially nerve function, producing anorexia, weakness, and progressive neurological signs such as ataxia, seizures, and paralysis. It is caused by raw-fish diets, gut or liver disease, and high demand, and responds to thiamine replacement.
Vitamin A Toxicity (Hypervitaminosis A) in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin A toxicity in dogs and cats follows prolonged over-supplementation with vitamin A or liver-heavy diets, suppressing bone-forming cells and causing periosteal bone spurs, pain, and lameness. It is reversed by stopping excess vitamin A and providing supportive joint care.
Vitamin A Deficiency in Dogs and Cats
Vitamin A deficiency in dogs and cats results from a diet lacking preformed vitamin A and its precursors, impairing vision, skin, growth, and reproduction. It causes night blindness, dry eye, flaky skin, and in young animals bone deformity and paralysis, and is corrected by dietary vitamin A and treating any gut disease.
Diabetes Mellitus in Dogs and Cats
Diabetes mellitus in dogs and cats is a disorder of insulin deficiency or resistance that causes persistently high blood sugar. Classic signs are excessive drinking, eating, and urinating with weight loss, and treatment centers on diet, insulin or other glucose-lowering medication, and monitoring.