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Linear Foreign Bodies – Keep Your Cats Away from the Yarn!

2017-11-06 by CriticalCareDVM

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, homes around the world will begin to decorate using materials like tinsel and handmade macaroni garland on twine. Folks will make personalized gifts liked hand-knitted clothing. These materials – tinsel, twine, yarn, string – are all very enticing to our feline friends. Yet if ingested, they can create a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Diseases Tagged: body, bunch, foreign, gastrointestinal, lethargy, linear, object, peristalsis, plication, ribbon, small intestine, stomach, string, twine, vomiting, yarn

IBD – Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Dogs & Cats

2016-09-19 by CriticalCareDVM

I evaluate patients with chronic gastrointestinal signs like vomiting and diarrhea multiple times per day. Many of these fur babies are referred to me by their family veterinarians with a concern for inflammatory bowel disease or IBD. But what is IBD? This week I endeavor to answer that important question for all of you. Happy … [Read more…]

Posted in: Diseases Tagged: chronic, cobalamin, colitis, colon, diarrhea, empirical, enteritis, enterocolitis, eosinophilic, granulomatous, hydrolyzed, IBD, immunomodulation, inflammatory bowel disease, large intestine, lymphoma, lymphoplasmacytic, small intestine, suppurative, vitamin B12, vomiting

GI Foreign Objects – A Big Pain in the Gut

2015-11-23 by CriticalCareDVM

Dogs and cats like to chew on things. That fact won’t come as a shock to any pet parent. Unfortunately, they also like to swallow some of those foreign items on which they nibble. This week I spend some time discussing how to help your fur baby should you find yourself in a scenario where … [Read more…]

Posted in: Diseases Tagged: barium, colon, duodenum, endoscopy, enterotomy, esophagoscopy, esophagus, gastrointestinal, gastroscopy, gastrotomy, ileum, jejunum, large intestine, positive contrast, radiographs, small intestine, stomach, surgery, ultrasonography, ultrasound

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