Quick Solutions for Cat Vomiting Emergencies

Today, let's delve into some new knowledge—what might cause your cat to suddenly vomit, and how can you help it?

When cats suddenly vomit, it's usually due to one of the following four common reasons:

1. Improper Diet

Reason: Some cats, in addition to eating regular cat food, may accidentally consume human food or foreign objects while dining with their owners or during outdoor play. This can lead to sudden vomiting in cats, sometimes even when foreign objects are mixed into their cat food.

Symptoms: Simple, sudden vomiting without other apparent symptoms.

Treatment: There's no need to panic with this kind of sudden vomiting. Simply feeding your cat some probiotics can help to quickly regulate its digestive system.

2. Gastrointestinal Discomfort

Reason: If a cat has a high number of parasites and its digestive system is particularly fragile, it may develop gastroenteritis, leading to vomiting.

Symptoms: Persistent vomiting (often yellow or white in color), vomiting multiple times a day, and continuous vomiting for several days.

Treatment: If the vomiting is due to excessive parasites, it's recommended to purchase effective deworming medication, such as Panacur's Praziquantel, to deworm your cat internally and externally, which is effective with a single dose and can directly expel various parasites, reducing their harm to the cat's digestive system.

If the vomiting is due to gastroenteritis, we need to strengthen the cat's immunity and use active probiotics to help regulate the cat's digestive system and improve diarrhea.

3. Hairball Syndrome

Reason: While it's good that cats have the habit of grooming themselves, it can also be problematic. The cat hair that they lick off can be swallowed with their saliva, and although cats will expel some of the hair, over time, some hair cannot be digested and accumulates in the cat's digestive system, causing indigestion and vomiting.

Symptoms: Vomiting with no cat hair in the feces or vomit.

Treatment: Purchase a hairball gel and feed your cat digestible cat food or treats. Pay attention to bathing and grooming your cat regularly to reduce the amount of cat hair they ingest.

4. Infectious Diseases

Reason: Cats may contract infectious diseases when they come into contact with other sources of bacteria or due to other factors, such as feline distemper.

Symptoms: Feline distemper symptoms require testing to diagnose. Common clinical signs include vomiting, loss of appetite, listlessness, and sticky secretions around the mouth, nose, and eyes. The symptoms are quite noticeable.

Treatment: Feline distemper cannot be treated with simple medications. You will need to take your cat to a veterinarian for testing and follow their professional advice for treatment.

Cats are actually quite fragile, and sometimes, a family may not be able to bear the economic burden of their illness and choose to abandon them.

But since we choose to have them in our lives, we should be responsible for them. Moreover, as long as we provide our cats with proper daily care and maintain a healthy diet, they rarely fall ill.