Caracteriza??o de compuls?es orais em gatos dom?sticos

• Autor(a) principal: Farias, Luiza Freire de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/5136
• topic: comportamento; felino; compuls?o oral; behaviour; oral compulsion; feline; Medicina Veterin?ria

Compulsive behaviors are observed because they are out of context, repetitive, exaggerated, and constant. Fixations for sucking, licking, chewing and ingesting nondigestible items are oral compulsions. However, ingestion poses a greater risk to the lives of felines, due to the risk of gastrointestinal obstruction caused by a foreign body, this disorder is also known as pica. The objective of this study was to characterize the oral compulsions in cats, in order to elaborate a common profile for the affected feline, identifying their predilection items and clinical and surgical interventions resulting from ingestion. The survey instrument chosen was the Survey Monkey questionnaire for online distribution, which was disseminated directly to feline tutors and also through social media. Age ranges were evaluated by fashion. The questions containing items of predilection were evaluated by descriptive statistics and simple percentages. The other data on gender, race, housing, emotional state, contact and food contact were submitted to the chi-square test and considered valid when P <0.05. The inclusion criterion was cats with oral compulsion that showed more than 30 days, and the exclusion criterion were cats less than 12 months. 443 valid questionnaires were received. The chewing compulsion was the most observed (n = 345, 77.9%), followed by licking (n = 235, 53%), ingesting 233 (52.6%) and suckling (n = 175, 39.5 %). In the compulsion to lick, the items of predilection were plastic (n = 141, 24.9%), tissue (n = 89, 15.7%) and shoelace (n = 53, 9.4%). In the compulsion to suck the items were tissues (n = 121, 69.1%), plastic (n = 32, 18.3%), shoelaces and lines (n = 19, 10.85%). In the compulsion to chew the items were plastic (n = 208, 20.5%), yarn (n = 143, 14.1%) and shoelace (n = 122, 12.0%). In the pike, the items were plastic (n = 127, 23.0%), line (n = 71 12.9%) and yarn (n = 64, 11.6%). Cats suffering from oral compulsions were 1 to 3- year-old, sexless, neutered, undefined, with ad libitum meals, living quietly with other cats and not living with other species. They are residents of a flat-screened home or house without access to the street and have had countless compulsive episodes, with the exception of chewing and itching, in which the disorder manifests once a week. The emotional state of the affected feline is considered quiet during the compulsive episodes. Approximately 130 (55.8%) of the 233 felines that manifest pica have already vomited nondigestible items and 65 (27.9%) have already defecated. The most common plastic in the vomit (n = 130, 55.8%) and also in the faeces (n = 65, 27.9%). The veterinary clinical treatment was necessary for 26 (11.1%) of the animals affected by pica, 18 (7.7%) needed hospitalization and 12 (5.1%) underwent surgical intervention.