Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology is a branch of veterinary medicine that studies the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of domestic animals, its structure and functioning, diseases and methods of their treatment.

When should you contact a veterinary gastroenterologist?

If your pet has:

• vomiting, belching;
• diarrhea;
• vomiting blood, feces with blood;
• belching;
• flatulence (“grumbles / boils”);
• decreased appetite (refusal to eat);
• salivation;
• forced position (outside), anxiety;
• weight loss.

“Timely veterinary care provided to pets with complaints of a digestive system disease leads to an improvement in health or recovery in 95% of cases, and this is the merit of our team, headed by a gastroenterologist.”

The self-treatment approach and late treatment leads to exhaustion, disruption of the healthy functioning of the animal's body, chronicity of the course of diseases, worsening of recovery prognosis and, in the absence of adequate therapy, death of the pet.

Recommendations before visiting a veterinary gastroenterologist Zoolux:

• Make an appointment in advance by phone or on the website;
• Collect a medical history (test results, appointments), if the treatment is carried out for a long time / in different clinics;
• If possible, make an extract about antiparasitic treatments (helminths, ectoparasites - fleas / ticks) with the dates of the last two or three treatments and the names of the drugs;
• The history of nutrition is very important: the names of the feeds (indicating the main ingredients if this feed has several flavors), the composition of the natural diet (types of meat, cereals, vegetables / fruits, dairy products, other additives with the exact or approximate amount of each of the components)) , treats, etc.;
• It is ideal to visit a gastroenterologist with a sustained 10-12-hour diet for the possibility of assessing the gastrointestinal tract on ultrasound, taking blood tests.

The anamnesis data and preliminary diagnosis are entered into a special information computer database, a patient card is formed, which indicates recommendations for treatment. Electronic recording of case histories is very convenient - it allows you to track the dynamics of the patient and provides information about all diseases and the method of their treatment for the period of the owner's visits to the clinic, as well as view them in the client's personal account.