Things to know about gingivitis in cats

When a cat has gingivitis, it will have bad breath, drooling, and no appetite, weight loss, bleeding gums, and other symptoms, and in severe cases, the cat will have a mouth full of ulcers and bleeding. So what are the current treatments for feline gingivitis? Symptoms 1. drooling, halitosis, chewing and swallowing pain, much foaming at the mouth, drooling syndrome, sharp weight loss, mental depression. 2. gum redness, swelling, hyperplasia, ulceration of the oral mucosa, pharynx or tongue. 3. missing teeth, reduction in the number of teeth, tooth loss. 4. oral mucosa congestion, erythema, pharyngeal erythema. 5. swelling in the throat pharynx trachea, pharyngeal ulcer, blisters. Causes 1. Dietary hygiene diet, oral morphology, oral hygiene care, most animals with oral inflammation related to dental calculus. Food residues will remain in the cat’s mouth and if not cleaned in time, tartar and calculus will be easily formed in the long term. 2. Infectious viruses systemic infectious diseases, such as infection with feline AIDS virus (FIV), feline leukemia virus (FeLV), herpes virus, cup virus and feline distemper virus. 3. Cat diabetes in addition when diabetes, renal failure and systemic lupus erythematosus occur, the same can have oral ulcers occur. There is also an eosinophilic granuloma in cats that can also cause oral mucosal damage. 4, fungal infections Some fungal infections can also cause oral mucosal lesions. Treatment 1, conservative therapy: symptomatic treatment is difficult to eradicate. According to the situation to remove the necrotic roots and calculus in the oral cavity, it will be helpful to the improvement of the disease. Commonly used drugs for conservative therapy are as follows: 1) Antibiotics: Metronidazole, Sulforaphane, Doxycycline, Clindamycin, Bayley, etc., which mainly kill bacteria in the mouth and control secondary bacterial infections. 2) Levamisole: It is originally a drug to drive roundworms, and its side effect is a very good immune enhancer. It can enhance the immune ability of the body. Achieve the purpose of strengthening the organism. Prohibited in pregnant animals, can cause fetal malformations. 3) Multivitamins: Naturally, they are essential nutrients for the body. In the case of oral problems, there is often a deficiency of many multivitamins. 4) Anti-inflammatory drugs: reduce the inflammatory response, reduce pain and redness. 5) Analgesic drugs: reduce pain and then encourage the animal to eat actively. Regardless of which medication is used, the physical condition of the sick cat should be fully understood before the medication is administered and the pros and cons should be balanced before they are administered. 2. Surgical treatment: There have been cases abroad where 75% of the sick cats can be cured after all the molars and premolars have been extracted. 3. Oral cleaning: The doctor will usually do a little oral cleaning of the cat to remove the tartar. For a complete and thorough cleaning, the cat needs to be anesthetized and then have its teeth scaled. The best practice is to apply a long-lasting antibacterial gel after thoroughly cleaning the teeth and gums. During this time the cat has to bear the risk of anesthesia for a bit. Veterinary hospitals in Taiwan consider dental scaling to be a routine procedure; animal hospitals or vet clinics in China are indifferent to this and do not necessarily offer to do it, but can perform it if requested by the parents. Some cats can improve their inflammation after regular scaling (once a year) and extraction of badly decayed teeth. 4. Medication: Some cats need long-term antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers to keep their symptoms at bay. 5. Tooth extraction: If all options do not work, some clinics have a treatment plan to remove all teeth. This is a very appalling solution, a solution to the extreme of the characteristics of Western medicine to cut the head and the foot, and a solution only when there is no alternative. From the existing cases, some cats can be cured and live unhindered; however, there are also many cases on domestic pet forums, saying that the attack continues after a period of time, and in extreme cases the cat eventually drooled and died. Pay attention to grooming the cat to keep it neat and clean; give it more love and care to give it psychological comfort; provide highly nutritious crunchy cat food so that it can be swallowed without vigorous chewing to maintain nutritional intake.