How to feed a cat with sensitive digestion?

Symptoms of the disorder

Characteristic signs of disruption of the digestive system: unstable, mushy stools, increased gas formation. And this applies equally to both cats and dogs.

Noticing these symptoms, the owner should take his pet to a specialist. Only a veterinarian can establish that the digestion of a particular animal is indeed hypersensitive. The doctor, on the other hand, has sufficient competence to give correct recommendations for restoring the patient’s health.

Maybe it’s not about food.

When signs of sensitive digestion appear, there is no need to rush to change the usual food. The fact is that digestive problems can often be caused by factors unrelated to the food itself. So, it can be stress in an animal, poisoning, accidentally eaten unwanted or unusual food, etc.

If the veterinarian has determined that the cause of the disorder is the reaction of the animal to any component of the feed, then you can offer the pet a special food marked “for sensitive digestion».

Special food

Such diets have several distinctive features. First, they contain prebiotics. They establish the correct balance of the intestinal microflora of the animal, thereby stabilizing digestion, increase the digestibility of food and normalize stool. Secondly, they usually do not use ingredients that can potentially provoke indigestion in a pet predisposed to this problem.

In general, such diets fully meet the needs of the animal in nutrients, vitamins and minerals. The owner can only follow the feeding advice given by the veterinarian.

October 18 2017

Updated: July 24, 2018