Influencia del alimento sobre la presencia de cristales urinarios en gatos atendidos en la Clínica Veterinaria Dr. Patas.

Abstract

In Veterinary Medicine, diseases of the lower urinary tract in cats describe signs such as: straining to urinate, incontinence, dysuria and hematuria, etc.; Within urolithiasis, race, sex, age and eating habits are considered risk factors. Various studies specify that there may be urolithiasis in short-haired cats as well as in long-haired cats. indicates that there is a higher prevalence of it occurring in females than in males. The present field work had a non-experimental, descriptive approach to determine the nature of the crystals/uroliths and their correlation with the variables under study, finding that the crystals present with the highest incidence were: ammonium urate, ammonium phosphate, calcium or cystine, calcium oxalate and struvite in the felines that consumed commercial food and the least frequent in the felines that consumed homemade food, it was also obtained that the pathology mostly present in this sample unit is urolithiasis with 46% , the FLUTD with 38% and cystitis with 16%, being the highest incidence in our study of urolithiasis, a comparison of the study carried out by Del Angel, Quijano, & Barbosa, in 2014, which analyzed clinical cases of dogs and cats that were treated in the period of August 2012-February 2014, where the pathology with the highest incidence within the feline population was cystitis. With the data found in this study, it can be concluded that food influences the incidence of the type of crystals and that the pathology with the highest incidence among the felines that arrived at the Veterinary Clinic was urolithiasis.