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Cat throwing up digested food every day8/19/2023 Decompensation of a more chronic disease.Urinary tract causes: acute kidney failure, ruptured bladder.toys, hairballs, or where one part of the intestine moves inside another part of the intestine) Gastric or intestinal foreign bodies (eg.Diet-related causes (diet change, food intolerance).Some common causes for sudden (acute) vomiting in cats include: Additionally, vomiting can be further divided into acute versus chronic causes. Neurological disease and/or toxic substances will stimulate the vomiting centre in the brain and cause the animal to vomit. Secondary causes are due to diseases lying outside of the gastrointestinal tract and can include neurological disease or accumulation of toxic substances in the blood. Primary causes of vomiting are those diseases directly affecting the stomach and upper intestinal tract. Vomiting can be divided down into primary (gastrointestinal) causes, or secondary (non-gastrointestinal) causes. If food is present in vomit, it is partially digested and can also contain a yellow fluid (bile). Cats will often vocalise, be apprehensive and heave/retch to vomit. Vomiting, on the other hand, is an active process. It’s therefore important for your vet to differentiate between vomiting and regurgitation as this will have an impact on deciding which diagnostic tests to perform, and also will help when deciding on the most appropriate treatment options. The danger of regurgitation is that the contents may also be inhaled into the airways causing pneumonia and a cough. This delay can result in regurgitation shortly after eating. A dilated (widened) oesophagus will not effectively, or efficiently, move or push food from the oesophagus into the stomach. a stricture, a tumour or a foreign body can all cause narrowing of the oesophagus). If the muscle of the oesophagus is considered diseased, it will either result in widening of the oesophagus due to loss of muscular tone (called ‘megaoesophagus’), or narrowing of the oesophagus, which acts as an obstruction to material moving down into the stomach (e.g. Cats will also attempt to eat the regurgitated material. The food is usually undigested, may have a tubular shape, and is often covered with a slimy mucus. The cat will lower its head and food is expelled with little or no effort. Regurgitation is the passive ejection of contents from the oesophagus. When you take your cat to your veterinary surgeon because he or she is vomiting, they will ask you questions in attempt to differentiate between vomiting and regurgitation. In healthy cats, food will move quickly through the oesophagus to the stomach with little to no delay. The oesophagus is a narrow, muscular tube that allows food to pass through on its way to the stomach. Your vet will need to determine whether your cat is vomiting or regurgitating What is the difference between your cat vomiting and and your cat regurgitating? Why does it matter?
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