Sentences with phrase «gi tract obstruction»

These may cause electrolyte imbalance, potassium loss and GI tract obstruction

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It's possible to get a bowel obstruction due to disease or physical injury, «but red meat isn't something that blocks your GI tract.»

Just about anything foreign can be ingested by a curious pet and can cause serious GI problems including obstruction of the GI tract.

Common diseases seen in most species of chelonians include respiratory infections, constipation, deficiency of vitamin A causing aural abscesses, stones in the urinary tract, obstructions of the GI tract caused by the ingestion of foreign bodies and penis prolapse.

Meat, poultry, or fish bones can also be dangerous if eaten, causing damage to the GI tract if they splinter or form an obstruction.

If there is repeated vomiting or diarrhea, this can lead to dangerous dehydration, or it may even be a symptom of other major problems such as an obstruction of the GI tract.

Foreign objects in the GI tract can cause an obstruction, and your pet may even require surgery to relieve the obstruction.

Another main trigger is the involuntary movement of the hairlike cilia in the respiratory tract which remove foreign matter from the air before it gets into the lungs, but other underlying causes can include mucous irritation, obstruction of the nasal passage, inflammation, excess nasal discharge or secretion, pneumonia, chronic vomiting, GI disease, and nasal tumors and dental diseases in older dogs.

Interventional procedures — including cardiac pacing, balloon valvuloplasty, transcatheter PDA closure, tracheal stenting, urethral stenting for cancerous obstructions, ureteral stenting from both malignant (cancer) and benign (stones, stricture) causes, intrahepatic portosystemic shunt closure, nasopharyngeal stenting, arterial embolization or chemoembolization for bleeding or to slow tumor growth, arterial coiling of guttural pouch mycosis, foreign body retrieval from the GI tract, respiratory tract, or vasculature, etc