How do cats digest hairballs in their bodies
Hair removal cream:
Feeding hair removal cream for cats can help cats digest hair balls in their bodies. Most Hair cream contains petroleum jelly and mineral oil. Mineral oil is not absorbed by the body and acts as an intestinal lubricant. Many cat friends may not know the ingredients of the hair removal cream. Some cat friends even say that they will give the cat a few mouthfuls of hair removal cream every day, so that the cat will have soft stools or diarrhea. From the ingredients, the hair removal cream Lubricating the bowel does have a laxative effect.
Some hair removal creams are very palatable, and cats love to eat them, usually because they contain food attractants. Generally speaking, hair removal cream products are not recommended to be used more than twice a week, because mineral oil can inhibit the body’s absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, resulting in the lack of this part of vitamins in cats, which will affect the cat’s health in the long run.
Cat grass:
Cat grass is wheat seedlings, barley seedlings, oat seedlings, etc., as well as dog’s tail grass, or ordinary grass on the lawn outside, basically Speaking of grasses, the principle of cat grass vomiting hairballs is to stimulate the cat’s gastrointestinal motility and help the cat to spit out the hairballs from the mouth. This method is relatively painful and has many disadvantages to the cat’s health. And cat grass is more troublesome to plant, and it takes about a week to wait. Cat grass can not only help cats spit hairballs, but also clean up their stomachs. Since some cats are greedy, there will be a lot of food in their stomachs. Eating cat grass can help cats digest and remove excess food. Excluded from the body.
Egg yolk:
Egg yolk is rich in nutrients and is an important source of protein, vitamins and minerals. Egg yolk contains vitamins A, D, E, B1, B2, B6, B9 (folic acid), B12, choline, calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc and selenium, egg yolk also contains about 2-3 grams of protein, of which egg yolk lecithin And choline plays an important role in cat hair growth.
Egg lecithin is a fat emulsifier, it will emulsify the fat that binds to the hair bulb, causing the cat hair to coagulate into a lump in the stomach, making it easier for the hair in the stomach to be excreted in the feces.
Let’s look at choline again. The choline component is acetylcholine. As the main neurotransmitter of the autonomic nervous system (including the gastrointestinal tract), acetylcholine promotes the contraction and peristalsis of the gastrointestinal muscle layer, so that the hair can be excreted with the feces in time.
