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Gastric Foreign Body in Dogs and Cats: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention
A gastric foreign body is an indigestible object lodged in the stomach of a dog or cat, causing vomiting, pain, and weight loss. It is removed by a veterinarian, sometimes surgically, with antibiotics to prevent infection.
What to Do If Your Cat Swallows a Foreign Object
Items a cat may swallow: thread and needles, wool, hair ties, rubber bands, coins, balloons, earplugs, fruit seeds and pits, nut shells, baby-bottle nipples, and various fibers.
How to Prevent Gastric Ulcers in Dogs
A gastric ulcer in dogs is a chronic sore between the cardia and pylorus that can penetrate the full thickness of the stomach lining, and most cases trace back to serious illness such as kidney failure or tumors. They arise from stress, drug side effects (especially NSAIDs and steroids, with ibuprofen especially dangerous), excess acid, poor feeding, or toxins and other diseases. Signs include vomit that looks like coffee grounds, belly pain, weight loss, and black tarry stools. Diagnosis uses blood work, X-ray, ultrasound, and endoscopy, and treatment targets the cause while curbing acid with antacids and acid blockers.
Why Dogs Vomit Yellow Fluid and How to Treat It
Vomiting yellow fluid is usually tied to diet or gastrointestinal disease, and the underlying cause is revealed by the dog's body condition, feeding routine, and what the vomit looks like. Once you rule out a gastric foreign body or viral infection, most cases from gastritis or gastroenteritis improve with short-term fasting, antiemetics, and gut support.
What Are the Causes of Cat Vomiting?
What to do when a cat vomits? Observe what the cat threw up, how much, the color, when it happened, and its mental and drinking state, as well as how many times it vomited. Let's look at the causes of cat vomiting.
All the Causes of Cat Vomiting
What causes cat vomiting? It's usually food or gut disease, but also poisoning or internal parasites. Here are 12 causes to help you solve it targetedly.
Why Does My Cat Keep Vomiting
Cat vomiting is common yet complex. Every owner faces it, but many diseases cause it—a dozen or two. Even vets find 'my cat threw up, why?' hard to answer.
Common Digestive Diseases in Dogs and Their Treatment
Common canine digestive diseases are gastritis (with enteritis), gastric dilation, and constipation. Each has clear causes and treatments—from diet fixes and enemas to, in severe cases, induced vomiting or surgery.
Cat’s Belly Got Huge but No Other FIP Signs, Died in Two Days After Probiotics; Could It Be Non-Inflammatory Ascites?
A rapidly enlarging belly with death in two days could be ascites, tumor, constipation, bloat, torsion, pyometra, or foreign body. Non-inflammatory ascites includes liver, kidney, heart, or nutritional types, all needing urgent care or they can pressure breathing or cause heart failure.
Dog has a cluster of something on the left side of its stomach, vomiting and bloody stool; can it heal on its own or need scope removal?
X-rays cannot confirm a foreign body. If a mass is in the stomach, urgent endoscopy with prompt removal gives good recovery odds; a barium study first maps it. Non-passing objects need surgery, while normal eating and stool allow conservative care.