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What to Do About High Total Bilirubin in Cats
High total bilirubin in cats shows as jaundice - yellowed skin, conjunctiva, and oral mucosa. It usually appears when the liver is diseased.
What Your Dog’s Waste and Walk Reveal About Its Health
Beyond temperature, pulse, and weight, a walk is the best window into your dog's health — watch its gait, expression, and the color and shape of its urine and stool. Red or dark urine can mean bleeding, cloudy urine an infection, shiny urine crystals, and orange urine jaundice; soft, bloody, or black stool points to digestive trouble. Catch these early and bring a fresh sample to the vet.
What Is Jaundice in Cats and Its Symptoms?
Jaundice is yellowing of skin or mucus membranes from increased blood bilirubin, a bile pigment made from heme in the reticuloendothelial system. As it is excreted in bile, hemolytic disease, liver injury, and bile-duct damage all cause jaundice; thus jaundice is non-specific, and finding its cause needs other signs and history.
Symptoms of Feline Jaundice Hepatitis
Cat jaundice is the typical sign of feline hyperbilirubinemia. Jaundice hepatitis mainly includes acute toxic hepatitis, cirrhosis, fatty liver, cholangiohepatitis, diabetes, tumors, and viral infections such as FIP and feline leukemia.
What the Colors of Dog Urine Mean
The simplest health check is watching stool - but urine tells even more. Here's what dog urine colors signal.
Symptoms and Treatment of Canine Infectious Hepatitis
Canine infectious hepatitis is an acute, contagious septicemic infectious disease caused by canine adenovirus type I. Its main features are fever, jaundice, leukopenia and hemorrhagic centrilobular hepatic necrosis. This article explains its symptoms and treatment.
Symptoms of Feline Infectious Peritonitis
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a chronic viral infectious disease caused by the feline coronavirus, characterized by peritonitis, large amounts of ascites and abdominal distension. This article explains the symptoms and treatment of FIP.
Feline Primary Hepatic Jaundice
Feline primary hepatic jaundice is directly caused by too much bilirubin in the blood, which happens when the liver's metabolism or excretion goes wrong. Many things can disrupt liver metabolism - here is the breakdown.
Causes and Symptoms of Acute Hepatitis in Cats
Acute hepatitis in cats shows as vomiting, fever, poor appetite, weight loss, and yellowed skin (jaundice). Causes range from viruses and bacteria to heart failure, toxins, and drug allergies. Here is a detailed look.
Common Abdominal Diseases in Dogs and Cats: Ascites, Stomach Bleeding and More
Abdominal disease hits the stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas and peritoneum, causing vomiting, diarrhea, pain and fluid buildup. Learn the signs and treatments.