Symptoms of pharyngitis in cats

Jan 05,2024
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Symptoms of cat pharyngitis:

1. Cats will start sneezing and have a runny nose, just like a cold. And there will be relatively abnormal behaviors, such as dogs often licking their noses and lips. Normal cats generally rarely lick their noses.

2. Cats will have common symptoms of oral diseases, such as drooling and vomiting.

3. Cats will have difficulty swallowing when eating.

4. Cats with acute pharyngitis will have elevated body temperature and fever, accompanied by poor mental status and lethargy.

5. Due to the swelling of the throat, the cat will gasp, have shortness of breath, and have difficulty breathing.

6. When the condition is serious, if you touch the cat’s chin and throat, you will find swelling. This is swelling of the throat lymph nodes and submandibular lymph nodes caused by pharyngitis.

Treatment methods for cat pharyngitis:

1. Because there are many causes of pharyngitis, relative treatment should be given according to the cause, such as: caused by other respiratory diseases The corresponding disease needs to be treated first, otherwise the recurrence of pharyngitis is very likely; for pharyngitis caused by foreign bodies, the foreign bodies in the throat need to be removed first to avoid inflammation and suppuration again.

2. Atomization treatment is also very effective in treating pharyngitis.

3. You can feed some soft food, but for those cats that have difficulty swallowing or even cannot eat, they need to use infusion to replenish electrolytes and water, and then treat them simultaneously.

4. Injection of antibiotics is used to prevent or treat secondary infections.

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