Eating too fast or too much, ingesting undesirable substances, food allergies, bacteria, viruses or parasites, chronic diseases, and swallowing hair balls are all causes of vomiting in cats. Owners can take some specific measures to prevent and reduce vomiting in cats, such as providing a healthy diet, preventing indiscriminate eating of foreign objects, and eating small and frequent meals.

Why do cats “vomit”

Vomiting is a very complex physiological process, a self-protective reflex of the body, and one of the disease problems that veterinarians often need to solve. It is generally divided into acute vomiting and chronic vomiting.

Eating too fast or too much:Any healthy cat eating too fast or too much can cause vomiting. Some pet owners add many kinds of snacks to their cats every day during the feeding process, such as raw meat, sausages, animal liver, nuts, fruits, vegetables, etc. This will overload the cat's gastrointestinal tract and cause vomiting. Especially when the cat vomits shortly after a meal and the vomit contains almost undigested food, it can basically be judged as eating too fast or too much.

Ingestion of bad substances: Ingestion of spoiled food, toxins or foreign objects may cause cats to vomit. Cats will also experience varying degrees of vomiting after swallowing some protein foods that are difficult to digest and absorb, as well as some foreign bodies. In addition, cats can also vomit if they accidentally consume toxic substances such as antifreeze, human medications, toxic cleaners, insect sprays, weed and pest sprays in the home.

Food allergy: Food allergy is also a common cause of vomiting in cats. If your cat has been well behaved, has a healthy weight, and does not look sick, but occasionally vomits, then you should Consider food allergies as a possible cause. Corn and wheat are two of the most common allergens in cats, but we often see them in cat ingredient lists (perhaps under other names). In fact, these ingredients are not necessary in cat food because cats are carnivores and they do not need grains of any kind to thrive.

Bacteria, viruses or parasites: Cats may vomit due to improper diet that may cause certain bacterial and viral infections in the cat's intestines or the production of gastrointestinal parasites.

Chronic diseases: Many chronic diseases can cause cats to vomit frequently in daily life, such as irritable bowel disease (gastritis, enteritis or colitis), pancreatitis, and chronic renal failure. , Feline Diabetes, Ahyperactivity and fatty liver.

Eating hair balls: Cats are born with the habit of licking their hair, so the hair is often licked into the stomach, where hair balls gradually form. When the hair balls reach a certain size, they are harmful to the gastric mucosa. Produces enough stimulation to reflexively cause cats to vomit and spit out hair balls, which is a type of physiological vomiting in cats.

Prevention and Treatment

In daily life, cat owners can take some specific measures to prevent and reduce vomiting in cats.

Provide healthy diet and prevent indiscriminate eating of foreign objects:

Feeding high-quality, easily digestible food to reduce gastric load can help improve food tolerance in patients with gastritis. Do not feed people random food, especially high-fat food; wear a leash and Elizabethan collar during outdoor activities to prevent ingestion of foreign objects.

Eat small meals often:

When your cat eats their food too quickly, you can slow down their eating by placing pebbles next to their food to separate the food. But the simplest solution is to eat smaller meals more frequently.

Check the ingredients and replace the food in time

If you suspect that your cat has a food allergy, you'd better check carefully to see if the food your cat has recently eaten contains allergenic ingredients, or go to the hospital for an allergy check-up. If there are allergies, change the feeding food in time. It is best to eat different protein-containing foods every three months to prevent food allergies.