Gastritis is an inflammation (not infection) of the stomach.
Some animals develop a long-term tendency for digestive upsets, often after eating and sometimes once every few days. This can follow inadequate recovery from a previous severe attack of acute gastritis or may result from emothionl stress, poor quality or disagreeable food, drug toxicity, or infections like feline infectious peritonitis or hepatitis. It can also be a part of an allergy problem, and many dogs and cats with skin eruptions will also have inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Sometimes there is no apparent cause.
Recommended treatment is to put the animal on a natural diet. |