Does your cat seem to have a great deal of trouble peeing, and are you at your wits' end for away to help the poor thing? It's possible that the cause of the problem is, something that they call cat urinary tract infection, or IFLUTD (that's Idiopathic Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease for the uninitiated).
Most people begin to suspect that all is not well with their cat, when their pet begins to act strangely in a number of ways. To begin with, they only just notice how their cat seems to pee about twice as often as before. They also cannot fail to notice that there are pools of cat pee all over the house all of a sudden.
With this infection, over time, your cat begins to experience a great deal of pain while peeing. You see how the poor animal cries each time it happens.
Cat urinary tract infection progresses in a way that is not unfamiliar to people who have experienced the human variety. When this disease strikes, the urethra, or the tube that leads from the bladder to the outside, becomes inflamed with a bacterial infection. In humans, it's women who usually get UTI. In cats, both male and female cats get it.
When it gets your cat, you want to make sure that you do rush your cat to the vet's as soon as possible. You don't want to wait around until there is blood in your cat's pee.
Cats can get this disease at any age, basically. But it's more common in cats that are young. Usually, cats that are older than 10 years of age don't get this.
So okay, you're pretty anxious now that your cat should have to go through this. What is responsible for it? What causes cat urinary tract infection?
There could be any number of possible reasons why this should happen. You do have to realize though, that they choose to put the word "idiopathic" in the name of the disease often. There is usually no discernible reason why the infection should set in.
When you take you cat in to the vet's, they will right away run a few tests to make sure that cat urinary tract infection is indeed the culprit here. They'll do blood tests, urine tests and so on. Sometimes, they'll try to rule out kidney stones by taking x-rays first.
When it comes to treating cat urinary tract infection, you'll probably find that the problem can be handled on an outpatient basis. For other, more serious forms of the disease, they'll admit your cat for inpatient treatment. Just like with a real person.
