Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (1): 82-94.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.01.008

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Research Progress of Food Intolerance in Cats

XIE Jingfei1,2(), ZHANG Yibo2, ZHAO Yang3, LIU Kaili1, HUANG Shucheng1,*()   

  1. 1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China
    2. Luoyang Zhijia Animal Hospital, Luoyang 471000, China
    3. Zhengzhou Paide Animal Hospital Co., LTD, Zhengzhou 450000, China
  • Received:2024-02-18 Online:2025-01-23 Published:2025-01-18
  • Contact: HUANG Shucheng E-mail:707341410@qq.com;huang.sc@henau.edu.cn

Abstract:

As a popular pet companion, cats have become an indispensable member of countless families, and their feeding number is increasing. Food intolerance is a non immune abnormal physiological reaction of the body to non immune food or food additives, which can affect cats of any age, sex and breed. Its clinical characteristics are mainly gastrointestinal, respiratory and skin symptoms. Digestive system diseases caused by food intolerance are the most common, which can lead to wasting, loss of appetite and mental depression in cats. It has the characteristics of long treatment cycle and easy to repeat. Recent, in view of the limitations of the diagnostic technology of cat food intolerance in clinical practice and the lack of attention to this problem, there is a significant deviation between its detection rate and the actual prevalence, which brings great challenges to the accurate diagnosis and timely treatment of cat food intolerance. Therefore, this review comprehensively considered the physiological characteristics, nutritional needs and feeding strategies of cats, combined with the clinical manifestations, immunological mechanisms, diagnostic methods and treatment strategies of food intolerance, summarized the current situation and treatment methods of food intolerance in cats. This review aims to attract the attention of clinical pet physicians and provide ideas and references for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of food intolerance.

Key words: food intolerance, food allergies, pathogenesis, dietary management, pet

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