Pay attention to diet
Some owners may think that diseases such as diabetes can only get it. In fact, cats and dogs will also suffer from this disease. The disease is a carbohydrate metabolic disorder. The usual symptoms are easy to thirst, eat more, urine, etc. When discovery, you should deal with it as soon as possible and pay more attention to your diet.
The disease can be divided into two types: primary and secondary. Primary nature is insulin -dependent diabetes, and secondaryness is non -insulin dependencies. Primary nature is the most commonly used diabetes in clinical practice. Both dogs and cats can occur, but dogs are more common than cats. The secondary nature is that there are more cats than dogs.
The cause of diabetes is complicated, including genetic, pancreatitis, obesity, infection, complications, drugs, and so on. Dog obesity will increase the islet load and the relatively sensitive fat tissue cells. The tendency of decreased diabetes or sugar tolerance is more common in adult dogs.
Symptoms: Typical diabetes mainly occur in older dogs. Dogs have the highest onset age of 7-9 years, and dogs smaller than one year old can also occur with diabetes, but it is rare. Relatively speaking, the incidence of female dogs is higher than that of male dogs, which is almost twice as many. The typical symptoms of diabetes are urine, drinking, and eating, but they lose weight. The urine has a special sweetness, just like rotten apples. Dogs with severe illness will have refractory vomiting and mucus diarrhea. In the end, it is extremely weak and coma. It is called diabetic coma, also called ketone acid toxic coma. In addition, about 25%of cases will start cataracts, corneal ulcers, turbid crystals, and retina falling off from the center of the eye crystal, which will eventually lead to blindness and eczema in all parts of the body.
Treatment: First of all, you must improve your diet. You can feed more meat and fat to limit the intake of carbohydrates. Drug therapy is mainly insulin, such as neutrophils and zinc insulin and fish essence protein zinc insulin. Drug according to the condition, until the early morning urine is not sugar. However, hypoglycemia may appear after medication, which is manifested as weakness and fatigue. At this time, it is necessary to take the glucose or vein in injection of 50%glucose 5-10ml. If a dog has keto acid poisoning, the vein should be supplemented with 5%sodium bicarbonate solution.