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Common Causes of Shivering in Cats and Dogs and How to Manage Them
Shivering is body trembling from cold, emotion, disease, or weakness—common in pets, and seizures include it. Causes range from simple cold to poisoning or infection; this article reviews them.
Symptoms and Treatment of Seizures (Epilepsy) in Cats and Dogs
Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder where overactive brain neurons cause abnormal function and seizures—convulsions, loss of consciousness, behavior changes. It is intermittent with many causes; treatment aims to reduce seizure frequency. This article covers types, symptoms, and management.
What to Do If Your Cat Has a Seizure
Feline epilepsy is an intermittent, brain-origin disease marked by convulsions; after an episode the cat often staggers and circles. Let's learn about it.
Essential Medications to Keep on Hand for Your Dog
Illness or injury can strike at night, so every dog owner should keep a basic pet first-aid supply at home. This guide lists useful external, digestive and special-purpose medications to have ready.
Day one: cat couldn’t move or stand, limbs cold; after some glucose and water it recovered but now has seizures, drooling, dilated pupils, rapid breathing, and wobbly walking
Seizures, weakness, rapid breathing, and uncontrolled urination may come from epilepsy, poisoning, or heart disease. Epilepsy needs phenobarbital; toxin ingestion needs urgent vet decontamination. Heart disease can show similar signs — a vet exam determines treatment.
Are nerve-support and vitamin supplements necessary for a dog on phenobarbital? (Noted urine leakage)
For a dog with epilepsy, follow the vet's guidance: use anti-seizure medication with vitamin B to control symptoms. Phenobarbital can be used if the liver is healthy, with liver-protecting medicine for long-term use, and some vitamin B12 may be given.
My cat suddenly had a seizure, what medicine and how often
Find the cause first; primary epilepsy is incurable and needs antiepileptics like phenobarbital, carbamazepine, or phenytoin to reduce seizures, under vet guidance. Secondary epilepsy from toxo or FIP treats the underlying disease.
Can a Cat’s Epilepsy Heal on Its Own?
No — cat epilepsy cannot self-heal. It is a brain-based, intermittent seizure disorder. Watch for pre-attack mood swings, convulsions with foaming and tongue bites during, and confusion after. Treatment is drugs like phenobarbital, diazepam, or gabapentin under a vet.
My dog started having seizures yesterday morning, many times, medication doesn’t help, constant drooling and circling, and not using the bathroom.
A dog's epileptic seizures usually manifest as convulsions, foaming at the mouth, involuntary movement, and loss of consciousness. Canine epilepsy is generally incurable and the exact cause is hard to find; its causes include brain infection, brain injury, brain tumors, metabolic problems, poisoning, and structural brain abnormalities. In addition, certain drugs, chemicals, or environmental factors may also trigger seizures in dogs. To confirm this condition, the owner should follow the veterinarian's advice and give appropriate help. Once epilepsy is diagnosed, the dog needs lifelong medication, re-examinations, and anti-epileptic treatment - anti-epileptic drugs include phenobarbital, potassium bromide, and diazepam. Medication controls the seizures to avoid major disruption to the dog's and owner's daily life, but in many cases the seizures return once treatment stops. Besides sticking to medication under the vet's guidance, seek timely care in emergencies and have follow-up exams to adjust the medication.
Barbiturate Drug Poisoning in Dogs and Cats
Barbiturates used for sedation, sleep or seizure control can depress the brain and heart when overdosed, causing drowsiness, low blood pressure and, severely, coma and breathing failure. Removing the drug and a specific antagonist are the main steps.