Decalcification in felines

It is a disease that affects to small kittens developing until the year of life and it is observed frequently in patients of 1 6 months; she is generally associate to a Calcium deficiency in the diet and an inadequate nutrition of the mother during the preñez and the lactancia.

Often as of the moment that the kitten begins to eat single (25 to 30 days), by lack of suitable information and not by bad will, one administers like food only perforated meat and milk to him. The meat has very little Calcium, although milk is rich in that mineral to compensate the deficiency given by the meat, the animal would have to consume 1/2 liter of milk per day, impossible alternative as much in a small cat as adult. Therefore that Calcium deficiency in the diet and adding a bad nutrition of the mother during the gestation and lactancia is very probable that the kitten shows a decalcification picture that is translated in walking vacillating, tremors, pain when walking or jumping, all this must to that the organism extracts Calcium of the bones for other functions, debilitating such that are pronounced with the signs previously named.

Most serious of this pathology it is that in some cases the vertebrae of the column decalcify producing vertebrales displacements with the consequence of a paralysis that in many cases is irreversible and takes eutanasia of the animal, also in kittens females exists a bad calcification of the bones of pelvis, being left this one narrower and the animal the normal one is developed with a channel of childbirth of less diameter than and as consequence takes to serious problems in future childbirths.

A treatment with injectable calcium is made, also worms, because in some cases, the presence of parasites in the intestine does not let absorb the calcium that interferes with the diet. The results are generally favorable, but it is fundamental to change the diet of the animal therefore, in addition to meat and milk, it will have to ingest other foods so that the ration more is varied and balanced like by Ej.: Rice, polenta, vermicelli, fruits, vegetables, soft cheese, soups, slight of chicken or a balanced food premium of good quality.

If the diet does not change and continues eating meat and milk, the treatment is possible that it fails because the improvement will be only transitory while medical the animal, that is so that the kitten recovers totally, in addition to medicar it is necessary it to change the nourishing habits in urgent form.

In addition it is suggested once recovered, to make the sanitary plan with corresponding vaccines, due to the process of weakness produced by the lack of calcium, the possibility that it contracts other types of diseases is greater. -

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