Gastroenteritis

Majorities
Etiologías
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prognosis
Prevention

Majorities
The gastroenteritis is an inflammatory process of the gastrointestinal system; in general one denominates this way the pictures where one is affected the stomach and the intestine, when a part is only affected, is possible to be differentiated between: gastritis (inflammation of the stomach), enteritis (inflammation of the intestine), colitis (inflammation of the colon) and proctitis (inflammation of the rectum).

The gastroenteritis is characterized to produce diarreas of different types (more or less liquid, with blood, with snot,?) and vomits; nevertheless, exceptions can be because the clinical symptoms that we can find very are varied, and go from an almost normal animal, slightly apathetic, to very serious pictures with diarres, vomits, blood and mucosity in lees, fever, dehydration, anemia, intense abdominal pain, decaimento and until can entar in shock.

Example:
In the puppies until the year of life the gastroenteritis by indigestión are common, because they are very gluttonous to eat and they do not have sense of the satiety, taking place an abdominal distension that takes to a disbacteriosis (abrupt variation of the flora intestinal), this case is not serious and the animal will respond in positive form to the corresponding medication, seeing an answer of improvement between the 24-48 later hours the application of medicines and serum (if outside necessary), if the animal improvement does not exist the possibility of one more a more serious cause like, for example, the incubation of parvovirus that begins with a gastroenteritis common soon to pass a a hemorrágica gastroenteritis or some other named cause previously.

Etiologías
* Dietetic: strange ingestion of plants, earth, grass, bodies.
* Parasitic (to see internal parasites: coccidios, ancylostomiasis, giardias, ascaridiasis, tapeworms)
* Poisonings: Poisoning by organs-fosoforados.
* Bacterial
* Virales (parvovirosis, panleucopenia, moquillo).
* Inflammations: allergy to some of the autoinmunitarios components of the food (allergy to a determined protein, to a component of I think, unknown cause).
* Tumors (to see oncología).
* Sistémicos (pathology of other organs kidney, páncreas, liver.).
* Congenital defects

Diagnosis
Excellent Sera for the Veterinary Doctor not only the diagnosis of the disease but the cause that produces it reason why we must frequently resort to the complementary methods (It will depend on each case in individual and the suspected pathology):

* Laboratory: analysis of fecal matter (coproparasitológico and/or functional), analysis of blood and tinkles.
* Images: x-rays, ecografía and/or endoscopías.

Treatment
The treatment will be based on the cause of the gastroenteritis, if the vomits and diarreas are serious, can take place an important dehydration that it will be necessary to treat by means of hospitalization and the administration about serum and medicines by intravenous route. Once controlled the clinical picture, the animal will be able to follow the treatment in house.

Prognosis
According to the cause that is acting it will be the gravity of the case.

Prevention
Good and correct feeding, to take to the sanitary plan to the day and periodic desparasitación and a responsible possession.

Authors
MV Enrique L. Fernandez De Vanna
MV Adelaida A. Goldman

 

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