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.
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