2023-07-07 15:00:00
Seong-Woo Shin, CEO of Dongtan Blue Bear Animal Hospital, a peer-free center of care
There are people who complain of toxic pain in the rainy season like these days. They are arthritic patients. It is said that pain and swelling intensify as the pressure within the joint increases due to high humidity and low air pressure. The rainy season will continue for regarding 15 days from now, and I hope that arthritis patients can manage their pain well and go through this period as comfortably as possible. Speaking of arthritis, our cats are animals that would be sad if they were the second most flexible, so I think they will live without knowing arthritis. But even cats get arthritis as they get older. It also takes very well. It is estimated that more than 70% of cats over the age of 10 suffer from arthritis.
Cats get sick with arthritis too. But as everyone knows, cats don’t show off when they’re sick. just live with patience Limping means that the pain is very severe. If you are a cat owner, you should take care of the slightest sign that your cat is suffering from arthritis before it develops this condition. So what does a cat look like when it suffers from arthritis?
The most obvious sign is not jumping or hesitating before jumping. If it was like before, the place where you jumped at once goes up through the low place around it when you get arthritis. For example, when you come to the table, you climb onto the chairs around the table and then back up on the table. The same is true when jumping from a high place. A healthy cat jumps from a high place to the floor in one go, but an arthritic cat jumps to the floor with fewer heights.
Another characteristic symptom is frizzy hair. This is a symptom of not being able to groom. Grooming requires bending and twisting, which is painful because of arthritis. On the other hand, they overgroom painful joints.
Other symptoms include a stiff gait and reduced activity. A decrease in activity is equivalent to an increase in rest time. It is easy for guardians to see this and simply mistakenly think that the cat is getting older. But the truth is, every time I move, it hurts, so I can’t move as well as I used to.
Treating feline arthritis is very easy. There are anti-inflammatory medications that work well for arthritis in cats, and your veterinarian will prescribe them for you. If you take this medicine, your cat can get rid of arthritis pain and regain its vitality like before.
Feline arthritis is easy to treat, but difficult to notice. Because, as I said before, cats hide their pain. But small changes are visible. Although it is small, it is a change that can be fully noticed by guardians who live with cats. Don’t miss this change and let’s manage arthritis. It will be of great help in preserving the cat’s quality of life.
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