Indigestion is a difficult time everyone goes through, there is hunger but no feeling of eating and getting burps or even motion pass. It becomes scary for the pet parents as the pets can’t express themselves.
Diarrhea is defined
as the frequent passing of loose, watery, and unformed feces. The normal
texture of the feces is brownish with a firm consistency, and any deviation
from the standard form with a recurrent tendency can be termed diarrhea. It is
manifested in the form of loose, unformed, malodorous, watery feces having a different
color. There are some reasons for diarrhea:
·
Stress
& Strain: Stress plays an
important role in everyone’s health and declining immunity. Whenever immunity
is low or below a certain threshold level, there is a good enough opportunity
for secondary bacterial invaders or pathogens to invade and start colonizing
thereby, causing diarrhea.
·
Food
Allergies & Intolerance:
Food allergies are rather common in dogs and cats. Lactose Intolerance is a
condition where they cannot digest lactose sugar, which is present in the milk.
As a result, diarrhea, which is usually limited to post-intake of suspected
intolerant food and usually ceases after withdrawal from milk. Some pets are
intolerant to certain types of packaged food, which triggers diarrhea that
ceases post-withdrawal of the offending food.
·
Emotional
Causes: Emotional triggers
such as nervous excitement, anxiety, separation anxiety, fear of an
unaccustomed environment, agony, or unwanted stress and strain may trigger
diarrhoeal episodes.
·
Neoplasm-induced
enteritis: Some diarrhoeal
episodes may be triggered due to neoplasia or the cancer process in the
intestines. This may be confused with inflammatory bowel disease, however; and the
difference is that the former is related to cancerous processes. lymphosarcoma
being the top contender for commonly encountered neoplasm associated with
diarrhea. Other neoplasms such as leiomyomas and leiomyosarcoma may also
trigger diarrhea.
·
Auto-Immune
Reasons: Auto-immunity is a
phenomenon where the immune system of the body attacks its cells/tissues due to
some cellular/systemic disturbances. Lymphocytic-Plasmacytic enteritis may be
evident in such cases of autoimmunity, which is usually characterized by
hypo-globulinemia and diarrhea.
·
Intestinal
Motility: Diarrhoea may occur
due to rapid movement of the intestine or hyper-peristalsis. There is a fixed
pattern in which the intestines contract which helps carry the food items ahead
in the alimentary tract. This fixed pattern or rhythmic contraction is termed peristalsis
or peristaltic movements. Excessive movement is termed hyper-peristalsis which
causes Diarrhoea or semi-solid/ liquid feces. On the flip side, constipation is
attributed to hypo-peristalsis or slower movements of the intestines. There
must be fine balance or homeostasis of the system to ensure there are no diarrhea
or constipation episodes.
·
Infection: Diarrhoea is manifested when some
infectious agents attack the digestive system. Our gut or intestines are filled
with good bacteria which help our body digest better via a process of symbiosis
they help in immunity building as well. However, infections arise whenever
there is a decline in the number of good bacterial colonies or there is a rise
in pathogenic bacteria. These pathogenic bacteria make their way into the
system mostly via the feco-oral route. In case, your pet eats or drinks
contaminated food or water, they always can have a diarrhoeal episode following
entry of a foreign pathogen.
·
Specific
causes: Parvovirus infection
in puppies are known to cause hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, which is
characterized by diarrhea that has a peculiar smell and is red-brown tinge.
Viral enteritis is very commonly observed in all species. Hence, always ensure,
your pets do not get access to dumpsters, waste products, stale food, etc.
which may have the potential to cause infection.
·
Parasites: Parasites are small creatures who
feed off their host as they derive nutrition and protection from their
particular hosts. Parasitism is a condition wherein there is an excessive
parasite load in the body, which can be potentially life-threatening.
Signs
and symptoms are- listlessness, anorexia, dullness, the pot-bellied appearance
of the abdomen, and loose unformed feces, despite having a good diet; the puppy
still appears to be weak. You may occasionally observe proglottids of tapeworm
in your dog’s feces which resemble cucumber seeds.
Diagnosing Diarrhoea:
Diarrhea
is a symptom. There can be many reasons behind the diarrhoeal episode. Establishing
the exact reason behind diarrhea helps us to treat the main cause behind this
and re-establish good gut flora, thereby promoting healthy bowel movements and
good gut health. To conclude the causative factor, your Vet may suggest a few
tests such as routine blood test, USG, RADIOGRAPHY, BIOPSY, and FAECAL SAMPLE.
These tests help to check the exact reason for the treatment.
Management
& Therapeutics:
Diarrhea can be with the ‘N’ number of reasons that may
eventually spiral down to disease. The treatment protocol should be holistic
and must cater to individual needs. For instance, diarrhea due to parasitism is
handled and treated with drugs that work against those individual parasites,
and diarrhea then ceases to be. On the other side, diarrhea due to infections
and inflammatory processes is rather difficult to handle and may require some
other form of treatment therapy along with supportive care and management.
The Goel Vet Pharma is a renowned homeopathy
providing, Diarrhoea due to any
underlying cause such as bacteria, virus, or verminous can be treated by
DIAFINE DROPS. Hemorrhagic diarrhea in cases of parvovirus can be holistically
approached by using diafine along with allopathic drugs
DIAFINE DROPS FOR PETS is a combination of different homeopathic medicines, which has proven effective in different types of diarrhea in animals and humans.
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