How to treat cat genetic diseases? Treatment of cat genetic diseases! Genetic diseases are all caused by some congenital reasons. Differences in gene development will cause different genetic diseases. Some genetic defects and mutations will lead to the occurrence of genetic diseases. At the same time, for cats, different breeds can also cause different genetic diseases. Genetic diseases will not be displayed when cats are young. Generally, it is the peak period for genetic diseases from one to three years old.
For cats of different breeds, there are different genetic diseases. Generally, purebred cats have a high probability of genetic diseases. So don’t always think that purebred cats are good and have noble blood, which is a symbol of status and identity. Of course, this is one aspect, but they may have genetic diseases, and many of them are troublesome to treat, so this is also a problem in the choice of cats.
Let's take a brief look at cat genetic diseases. Persian cat polycystic kidney causes renal failure, and the inevitable respiratory problems and lacrimal problems caused by special short nasal canals. We also know that the cartilage of the folded cat is a problem, so the ears will be folded down. As long as the folded cats carry the folded ear gene, including the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the folded ear, the skin has skeletal genetic diseases, and the cartilage bone development is abnormal, which is unpredictable. The folded ear cat may also have heart problems and are prone to myocardial hypertrophy. Shorttail cats are prone to cardiovascular diseases, especially American shorthair male cats, who are most likely to suffer from myocardial diseases. Once the disease occurs, there is a risk of sudden death. Finally, let’s take a look at Siamese cats, which are prone to renal failure, eye diseases, mucopolysaccharide VI, mesenteric tumors, allergic bronchitis (asthma), difficulties in fertility, stillbirth, lymphoma, etc. In addition, modern Siamese bones, especially the pelvic cavity and tail, are particularly prone to bone problems. The Siamese pelvic cavity is prone to problems, but it is generally not serious enough to have a life-threatening crisis. What is more terrifying is that the skeleton is too narrow and causes the chest cavity to be too small, which suppresses the organs in the chest cavity, leading to problems with various organs, which will become fatal factors.
The treatment methods are limited in the issue of genetic diseases and therefore need to be carefully considered. Some are structural deformities of the body and can be corrected by surgical procedures, such as cryptorchidism, hernia, permanent artery or venous catheter. Some cases are lacking proteins, cofactors, substrates or metabolites, and their defects can be corrected by additives. Adding pancreatic enzyme and insulin injection can be used for pancreatic exocrine and endocrine deficiency, respectively. The use of fresh plasma can treat hereditary hemagglutination and (vn) Weilebrand's disease overblood. Other enzyme and protein replacement treatments are also underway.
In animals, kidney transplantation has been used, but it has not yet been used for hereditary renal diseases in young animals. There are several hematopoietic cell genetic diseases, such as hematopoiesis and interleukin 2 receptor defects, triggering pyruvate kinase and fructose phosphate kinase deficiency, which have been treated with bone marrow transplantation. Bone marrow transplantation has also been tried to treat lysosomal storage diseases in functional cells, or active proteins and other tissues, such as the liver, bone and brain. Now we study gene therapy and implant functional genes into defective cells of diseased animals. This study has been successful in rodents and needs further application in cats.
Secondly, prevention is also an important factor. In order to reduce the occurrence of genetic diseases and eliminate genetic defects, as well as the spread of mutant genes, the focus is on preventing genetic diseases in familial or pure breed animals, that is, any animal with genetic diseases should not be used as a breeding animal. This approach is to simply and effectively remove genetically affected animals with dominant characteristics, and the removal of recessive genetically affected animals is somewhat insufficient, but it can reduce the prevalence of defects in a certain breed or kitten. However, this approach may seriously reduce the diversity of the breed genes. In fact, detection of carriers (heterozygous) and real uncarriers (homozygous normal) is the focus. In advanced countries, it is easy to identify carriers of autosomes (carried by both parents) and X-linked recessive (carried by mothers). As mentioned above, reliable carrier testing is useful for some diseases. Animal breeding. Before animals breed, humans should undergo scanning and testing in order to understand genetic diseases. But they are often afraid that the test results will be released to the public and harm their business, so animal doctors should provide them with publicity and education. If a carrier animal can be used to mating and reproduce homozygous normal animals in order to change the narrow gene and obtain multiple desired characteristics, the carrier animal can be used for mating and reproduction, but the offspring born need to be tested. Only when a normal animal can it be used as a species.
We do not need to pay too much attention to the issue of genetic diseases, but we should not underestimate them. Nowadays, there are not many real purebred cats. Most of the cats raised in the community are from hybrids, and the probability of genetic diseases is greatly reduced. Secondly, for purebred cats, the symptoms of real life-threatening genetic diseases are rare in real life. Some good feeding and care for the owner can also reduce the probability of genetic diseases.