hello MiciGatti and MiceGatte! I propose you in this video a nice seminar held by the
Dr. Valerio Guiggi who is a vet specialist and expert in nutrition
dog and cat and here he talks about them food allergies of the cat, both a
level of possible care, both at the level prevention, so let's listen to it with
warning! Hi, I'm Valerio Guiggi, vet, I'm a specialist
in inspection of food of origin animal and I deal with the activity
professional supply and cat and dog nutrition. Today
we are talking about the cat, they have me asked to talk about the allergies of the
cat, which is an argument interesting enough, more than anything
for cats allergic but in my opinion also, for what he has got to
see, for the purpose more than anything else, there is also an interesting part for those
maybe she has non-allergic kittens because allergies are not. It is not possible
this avoid it one hundred percent but it is possible at least
reduce the risk factors they can lead to the development of an allergy
food. As when you have a food allergy going forward
then with life considering that the cat lives 15-20 years, with a
Allergic cat may not be simple to continue, for a question
therapeutic, for a matter of choice of food, if the allergy is food,
also perhaps concurrently with others pathologies,
for example: I have a cat allergic to one food component, it comes to him
a renal failure, go for a do power that respects both
at renal failure than allergy food can not be simple.
Meanwhile, as first thing doing a general speech
not all allergies are food. A lot of people contact me
personally, he tells me I have the cat scratch, the cat is a little scratching,
you do not have to contact me, that I take care of only nutrition,
do not do clinical activity at moment, so you should not contact me,
because I deal with nutrition, before usually you go to the normal vet,
of the surgery, you have a visit general, in the first case it goes from a
dermatologist, because most of dermatological diseases, they are not
of food relevance, they can be related to fleas, they can be
related to bacterial, viral or infections however to problems that do not concern
the power supply, so first you do the skin tests,
observations under the microscope or test specific to see which one can be
pathology, then when it is excludes the pathology due to a cause
not food, then one begins to think also of
the food one, or you start thinking about other types
of allergy type environmental, cats allergic to a plant, I have a garden,
they can manifest for example of the reactions, like us, in short, if it is one
person is allergic to nickel, for example, can not take in hand
cents because to the reaction allergic, but only on the hands the part
that comes in contact with the metal, so this also applies to the cat.
First we go from one diagnosis to another guy,
then going on we move on to a diagnosis food type, if the vet
suspects that the problem is of a nature food.
That said: what is an allergy? an allergy It is defined as an excessive reaction
antigenes for which normally there should not be
the reaction, that is, to antigens that do not they are pathogenic, this thing means that
a molecule (I explain what an antigen is) a molecule I can find in
normally in the environment, like one plant, I made the example before, or in a
food, which to most cats does not bother you
in the organism of some cats comes considered harmful by their organism e
is attacked as if was harmful and this gives rise to
allergic reaction, a reaction quite complex that
ends however with a hyper vascularization, with symptoms like
itch that is absolutely the most frequent among the symptoms. Not all
substances are allergens, in human they are studies have been done to understand which
substances could be recognized from the immune system, which substances
instead they could not be recognized, they did a few studies and for now
we only have the data in medicine human, they are molecules if I know they have one
size over 10,000 daltons, the dalton is the unit of measurement of weight
molecular. When these molecules they are big enough, they can be
recognized by the immune system, which he attacks them. Very small molecules,
a lot under this dimension, like it can be glucose and sucrose, which
it is found in sugar or individuals amino acids once they have been
digested by the stomach can not cause allergy, also because if a
cat or dog or a person became allergic to glucose
he would probably die, too because we always have glucose in it
big quantities we like cats inside the blood at all times,
so it would be an exaggerated reaction, would certainly lead to the death of the
cat in no time. So allergies can come
only to quite large antigens. How does a cat become allergic?
we need a repetition, for what we know because of a
day to day the organism goes to attack a certain molecule that day
before he did not attack, he is not yet seeing why,
if it were understood and yes managed to prevent there would be
probably more allergies. They were identified a number of factors of
risk for which a cat can become allergic to something. Among the factors of
for example, we have a risk repeated stimulation aside
of the antigen: if a cat comes in contact once with a strange animal,
a monkey, because someone takes it and comes in contact with an antigen that is
present in the hair of the monkey and not of other animals, it will hardly become
allergic, because there is a contact quite sporadic, when
instead there is a more frequent contact, repeated, that is, you go to
always beat at the same point, with the same molecules, one of the most cases
frequent in cause supply allergy to chicken, they have always been
foods with chicken, croccantini with the chicken, and in crunchies often there
written, meat and derivatives that most part of the times they hide the chicken, it is
much easier than a cat to become allergic to chicken that way that
making a varied diet. This also applies to allergens
environmental, it is much easier than one cat become allergic to a plant that is
present in your own backyard that's not a plant that's not here,
because maybe that there are in Sicily and one lives in Turin, so too
this is a risk factor. Another risk factor is age, it is
been seen as 75% of the allergies are starting to manifest before
two years old, then up to two years is the maximum risk,
then later despite cats can to become allergic even after something,
however the risk tends lower yourself a lot. In addition to this there is one
genetic component, unfortunately there are some races that are genetically more
predisposed, attention here must be always consider that the
predisposition is not at chicken allergy, pig allergy,
to the allergy to the plantain, it is an herb
that can be present, but there is one predisposition in developing
allergies, for which there is a parent was allergic, I know, to the chicken, the
kitten then develops an allergy to something else, something different, but the
predisposition is for allergy, not for the allergen, and therefore it is not the
substance. A predisposed cat is in general more at risk from this point
of sight. How can you avoid them? Allergies? One must do one
distinction between avoiding the allergy in how much disease and avoiding the reaction
allergic, which are two different things, because allergy is a predisposition
body that has the body, so if a cat is allergic
to the chicken and it does not come in contact with the chicken, is allergic anyway,
but it has no symptoms clearly, whereas vice versa when I have it
allergic reaction is the time of contact, the moment to which all is activated
the allergy chain and we have i symptoms, manifestations. Heal from
allergies in general apart from avoid them, so basically prevent them
preventing risk factors, ad example, a power supply can vary
the type of feeding that is given, e do not use the rule that sometimes you
hears: "the crispies are fine those continue to give those always
those "is much easier than that
in that way one develops allergy, that even only with i
crunchy for those who do not want to pass to a home-based diet
stay with, change from time to time crunchy, vary, reduce as factors
of risk the possibility of developing allergies,
regarding healing from allergy that's enough
complex, we must first of all be sure of which allergen, usually it is done
with environmental allergies, not with those food, why
of the substances that are found
in the environment we usually know what it is the allergenic molecule, which
in the diet it can be more hard.
There are some therapies that are called self vaccinations, even if the vaccines do not
they have a lot to do with it, which basically inject the allergen into the body of the
cat because the immune system learn to recognize it as not harmful.
The logic is that, it does not always work, when it works however you can get to
to heal from allergies with this type of injections, but they are therapies
details that usually do i fellow dermatologists.
Regarding instead of avoiding the allergic reaction, exactly like
it happens in human, if you have a reaction allergic to dried fruit, they do not have to
eat, in the cat is exactly the same thing: if you are allergic to one
component, we know what that is component, as far as possible
we must try to avoid it. Clearly an allergy to a plant is much more
difficult to avoid because if garden it is that which is not said even if it is removed
all the land from the garden and yes rebuttal, that that plant is not born of
new, so it's much harder avoid an environmental allergy,
and in fact in these cases is more likely to be suggested
also from the colleague at the vet who it follows that the cat is a therapy
symptomatic in the sense to avoid the reaction are given of the medicines that
they lower the reaction, which act on the chain that develops allergy, while
when it is a food allergy it is a little easier to avoid it because if I can
to identify which is the allergen, I can also to
say ok, do not enter into contact the food, because the food you choose us.
We must also pay attention to them: the method more used, which roughly everyone
they know is that of mono foods proteins, which have one
series of critical issues, we must do ourselves attention, for example
there have been various studies that have been done a little around the world, where they have
evaluated with enough techniques depth
that is in the monoproteici, I can say, to the pig
there were chicken contaminations from bovine, from fish, from other flours because i
feed factories so many times are environments very floury, like i
mills, I do not know if you've ever seen them, they are full of these powders, so one
contamination even from the hands of the feed mill operator is not from
to exclude, and this clearly invalidates the
therapy, which usually lasts from six at eight weeks,
it is elimination test for weeks, in which only one is given
specific food to that cat for see if the problem is that, if there is
such contamination becomes invalid everything, there have been cases of crunchy
for example where they were unreported ingredients, they found
ingredients that had not been declared. With the damp it tends to be a
a little simpler, because i ingredients are less than the
ingredients that are there in the dry. Self you go to look at the label of a dry one
There are 47 ingredients, while if you go to look at a wet one there are
basically a smaller number, so the thing is more easily controllable.
Otherwise there are the powers of homemade type: feeds
housewives are more easily manageable, because I decide what I put inside
of the cat's bowl, for which clearly if one has the chance
to prepare, cooked raw, depends on the
specific situation for the own cat,
surely there is a better control and there are no contamination problems,
there are no typical problems of industrial food. Often yes
manages to solve with this type of feeding discovering that then
the allergy actually was not in the end much to the ingredient of crunchy
as for the mites that had entered the interior of the crunches, because the mites are
in the environment, they are on the cushions, it is for what they advertise so much
latex mattresses, just because they do not they are favorable to the development of the
mites for people who have problems of allergy, especially respiratory,
I'm a bit 'in all environments, so can not be excluded, they found it
several times entering the crunches, especially if the bag stays open and
the crunches are nutritious for the cat like for mites, for which they can enter
and mite proteins can do from allergens rather than. So a
sometimes maybe you say wait, change the,
do not put more, then take the pig, take the lamb, take the fish, or
anything else and the allergy does not go away, but then when passing from the chicken breast
maybe cooked in the pan allergy as if by magic it disappears, because in reality
in principle it was not due to at the food, but it was due to one
domestic housewife contamination. another what you can be wrong with,
which can confuse ideas, it's cooking, which makes changes
to the food and can change also the so-called structure
Quaternary protein, we said that the allergens are quite large
as substances to be recognized, have one
three-dimensional structure, which cooking can change, it is a hypothesis is not yet
has been confirmed but one thinks so quite certain that the
problem is this, that is, cooking can change the proteins they make from
allergens, when you give it the same food but fresh, with the fact that it was
cooked at a lower temperature, because proteins break down almost denature
at different temperatures, just think of when you make a fried egg
albume: it realizes that the albumen it soon becomes white, the yolk
it takes us a bit more, this because there are different proteins between
the albumen and the yolk, this happens exactly even in cooking: if I
I take a chicken breast I put it to boil, more than 100 degrees not le
we will never exceed, because the water evaporates, so I still have a temperature that is
that. With the crunches higher temperatures are reached:
130-140 degrees for which they can be changes that in the chest of
cooked chicken there may not be. If I give the raw chicken breast there
there are still fewer changes, they can be allergens even in the
raw foods that come then eliminated from cooking, so they are valid
both hypotheses, but there it is necessary go to deepen.
Last thing with which you have to do one the differences are the intolerances:
many use allergies and intolerances like synonymous, sometimes cats are
intolerant, intolerance is one reaction that is not allergic, that is, not
there is an allergen recognition e an activation of a whole chain after,
but it is a group of diseases that we say it is divided mainly into 4
subtypes, but I'm not going to deepen Right now. When there are
of intolerances means that the body, or by a known reaction, for
example lack of an enzyme, or for one unknown reaction, which is called
idiosyncrasy, ie in which the mechanism of action was not understood,
has adverse effects, towards particular foods. One of
idiosyncrasies more most represented are for example
those for additives: the additives of usually they are very very small molecules,
they would not trigger an allergic reaction because they are too small to be able to
unleash, but can still unleash of intolerances, so usually yes
see these cats that have diarre constantly, we never pass it.
Other substances that may be involved in this are antibiotics,
antibiotic compounds, why for antibiotics that can be found
in foods there is a definite limit, established by a regulation, but in certain
even small quantities, especially if a cat is particularly subjected
at one reactions to antibiotics, which of
it was usually seen by the vet maybe a few years before,
because he gave him an injection of a particular antibiotic, the cat either
turned red, completely here's a situation like this can
lead to make that much more dose of antibiotics like those that you
can find inside the foods can trigger, not reaction
as big as when he is been injected, but a lot of reaction
weaker, but it causes diarrhea, so it's a problem that they tend to
resolve until you go to work a specific analysis of that food,
because you must of course at that point know the antibiotics that are
placed in the starting animal species, in the case go to choose foods that
they are free of antibiotics, or for certification, or who have less
chance of having antibiotics, like the biologicals, which anyway have
approved two treatments pharmacological diseases per year in animals
they are subjected to this specification. So we need to go for one
thing very thorough and basically to make a diagnosis
precise and above all to avoid them reactions need knowledge
pretty thorough more of the animal's food, it is necessary
go and do a lot of hypotheses specifications and that's what I recommend
always getting help from a vet how can I be, how they can be
also several colleagues who are intended a lot of both nutrition and also of
foods, that foods owe them a little to know why else you find yourself,
as I've seen done several times, to give monoprophanies more or less random, so ok
deer no, it does not work, the chicken test, no it does not work, try the pig, no, not
it works, so by force of rotating monoproteics the situation does not resolve
never, because the problem was something else kind for which you have to go a little bit
in depth from this point of view.
I do not have a precise case in which some races are more subject, not there
I never noticed, I read in scientific literature and I never have
fact that also because there is personal experience and cats are
many, so the breeds of cats are many, while the cats they turn to
a professional who does power they are relatively few, so I will
I can say that maybe I saw one Siberian and maybe I saw him in one
Norwegian, that maybe I saw them in other races, however, I think I have on
purebred cats compared to most part that then are Europeans, a series of cases
so low on the reactions in the cat, that if I told you
I saw her twice in the Siberian it could be a coincidence, for that
that concerns me. I know that there they are predispositions of race, that there
are indications, but if you reports a personal case not
I think it would be reliable personal ranking that I'll do you,
go and look at the documents related to the race, a bit 'in all
I find the predisposition in my opinion to the allergy, I do not remember anyone
in which there is no written predisposition to allergies, and this
I personally think it does not depend so much so that there is one
predisposition of race as for the fact that homemade diets, diets a
raw or cooked are coming a little out now in the cat, up to three or four
years ago and enough croccantini, so from this point of view according to me
allergies beat a lot, in short in my opinion a valid statistic yes
manages to do in a few years, where there is a little more than
awareness from the point of view nutritional, where they also go down one
collection of a little more than cats in relation to breeds of cats and to
that point in my opinion you can understand, those become allergic
even if you really give him the chest of chicken paid 10 euros per kilo, organic,
biodynamic, bioenergetic, then that race maybe is more predisposed, for now
there is not one a big base to say that
race rather than the other. Then from a general point of view I can say
that the crunchies in the cat would go avoided, if one must use
the industrial better the wet, in general, this not just for an allergy talk,
but also for a speech kidneys, bladder, especially low urinary tract. When
they have the crunches sooner or later some calculate touches him. Of course there
they are also cats which are not then subjected to struvite
rather than to urolithiasis other type, but in general I saw that
when cats have eaten throughout the life
the crispies generally problem low urinary tract touch them sooner or later,
which is why they are more I certainly incline to prefer the wet,
if then one has the possibility to prepare them of cat food, so much the better, because
the ingredients you choose, in the sense, but if one does not have the possibility
however it is always to be preferred the wet, the cat is an animal that does not
he drinks, in the damp water he finds it, in the crunchy no, so all the problems
that even human doctors tell us: drink you drink so much because the water is
important, they catch up, they apply to the cat, they are exactly
the same, if a person drinks little has kidney and bladder problems,
if a cat drinks little has kidney problems, has bladder problem, it is a given enough
in fact, all there is a bit of water for cats it's ok, in my opinion, it is
definitely better than what it has no water, the biscuits are not ideal
for cats, then also from the point of view of economic, right for
talk about it, it is not that they are so much, an account
It's a big dog, big guy like a cow, so there's another story,
because he eats so much, but a cat that eat relatively little, take 70
grams of crisps a day or gives 200 of wet, we are there, you spend a
a little more, but it is an investment of those 20-30 euros a month that make you
feel good the cat, in my opinion, so then it is always better dry and moist than
only dry, from the point of view strictly nutritional, it is the diet
mixed, I know that on the internet you read "it is
wrong mix dry and wet why does it come ... "I'm stupid,
they are stupid, if it is invented someone and keep turning
on the internet, on groups, whatever,
continues to run on groups, you read it on the internet, it's not true, there's no basis
scientific that says of this thing, indeed if you mix, how do you do it for
we are better from the point of view nutritional, for sure it is an advantage.
I thank Dr. Valerio Guiggi, I remind you that you can find it also in the facebook group of
micioGatto if you want to make some questions about feeding the cat, i
I will also report the questions you want do below in the comments to the video e
I invite you to also look at his channel youtube where there are many many videos
on feeding the dog and the cat! for today it's all a big kiss bye
MiciGatti and MiceGatte!
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