A cat with long standing diarrhoea, anyone got a cure?.?

Answer 1

First - - I hope you've ruled out intestinal parasites. Only your vet can do this. If you are sure that ghiardia isn't the problem??

1. No wet food.
2. Only high quality indoor high fiber food - follow directions for daily food needs for your cats age/weight.
3. No table scraps

4. BENEFIBER!!! (the tasteless, sugarless, powder that dissolved -- can be put into your cat's water, but better mixed into a paste with a tiny amount of high quality wet cat food such as A/D. (yes I said no wet food above, A/D used to get your cat to eat the benefiber is OK!! but only a tablespoon of it mixed with approximately a teaspoon of the benefiber.)

the story of baby Jenna. Jenna was a shelter rescue, was stricken with ghiradia at 3 weeks. She had runny bm's for four months in spite of all meds - which left her rectum turned out about 1/2 inch and her sphnicter incapable of closing her rectum.

As a last straw and after major$$ at the vets' I put her on high fiber food and started dosing her with benefiber -- which is full of cellulose which absorbs water in the tummy and in the intestines.

On the very LAST day of living with a leaking kitten,(we'd decided she was so miserable we would put her down) I went into her kennel and checked her bottom side -- and after four days on the benefiber -- her inflamed rectum had pulled back inside her body and her sphincter was closed.

Can we honestly say it was the benefiber? No. It could have been that with or without it she was on her way to healing from all the ghiardia and slack muscles it caused in her intestines/rectum.

Do I believe the Benefiber helped give her solid stools and absorbed intestinal fluids and gave her body time to slow down so her rectum could actually stop working overtime?

You betcha.

Jenna is our only rescue out of 276 cats in the last three years that lives with our family. She still has digestive problems on occasion. To this my vet's answer is: Some cats simply have digestive problems.

Another trick of the trade for animals with upset stomachs is going to your pharmacist and buying packets of assidophyllos (say it: ***-o-doff-a-lus) and mixing it with plain Gerber baby rice cereal. It is basically the active ingredient in yougurt and often used to reinfuse the digestive system with healthy bacteria which can stop the diarrhea.

Answer 2

Listen to Mick and get that information. I feed my cats a raw meat diet and have for seven years. I have had one case of diarrhea in my 22 yr old cat in all that time. I think she drank from a community drainage ditch that runs through my backyard and it may have had runoff with chemicals in it.

I have been on several Yahoo groups for raw cat feeders. People have reported that IBD or IBS is "cured" almost overnight by feeding a proper cat diet.

You can go to Dr. Jean Hovfe's site at www.littlebigcat.com. She has many articles there about feline nutrition.

Answer 3

well, if it has been going on for more than 24 hrs I would contact the vet. you can give the cat peptobismal. about 1cc three times a day, but if you say long standing, this cat needs to be seen by the vet to make sure there isn't anything medically wrong and make sure you cat isn't dehydrated.

what are you feeding your cat don't feed your cat canned food, or dry food that has the first ingredient as corn or something to do with corn.

Answer 4

Diarrhea in dogs and cats is a very common problem, because it is their body's way of getting rid of bad stuff. Most adult cats and dogs cannot digest milk properly, Try then feeding a bland diet (your doctor can prescribe one). I also use enzymes, probiotics, glutamine and a homeopathic product called Diarheel. These therapies usually work.
Long-term, other testing must be done to rule out problems such as inflammatory bowel disease. This means an endoscopic exam and biopsy must be done. I've had great success treating this naturally; in most pets, medications such as corticosteroids (such as prednisone) or chemotherapy drugs are not needed for long-term control and cure. I encourage you to follow up with your doctor, as undiagnosed bowel disease can be fatal.

Answer 5

If you have been to the vets and they can not find anything wrong with the cat, try feeding him/her on a diet of rice n chicken and see if that helps, also try giving bottled water instead of tap, that may help as well also check that your cat has been wormed and that no one else is feeding him or that he is eating old manky food he finds when he is out and about.

Answer 6

You need to see what your cat is eating! Sometimes milk upsets their stomach... If you are feeding him/her with milk... stop it.. it destroys their kidneys and affects their intestines...

Also try to give them dry food only.

Take you kitty to the vet, long lasting diarrhoea is not a good sign!

Good luck!!

Answer 7

Proper diet.

Check this out:

http://www.catinfo.org

The vet who created this site had a cat who had chronic diarrhea for two years until she researched feline nutrition and cured the problem with proper diet. The site takes all she learned about feline nutrition from her research of the scientific literature and puts it in plain language that non-scientists can understand.

Answer 8

arrow root powder from the supermarket, sprinkle a quarter of a teaspoon on every meal for 2 to 4 days you should see an improvement, only boiled chicken+rice, no milk, don't use arrow root powder for more than 2 weeks, if no change take to the vet.
(loll's secrets).

Answer 9

If you give your cat milk, that's the cause. That's why you should never give cats or kittens milk. It gives them diarrhea and then they get dehydrated. In the meantime, take the poor thing to the vet! Why let it suffer???

Answer 10

more then likely your cat has worms you might want to get it checked out to see. if it does then the vet can give you antibiotics this will help on the diarrhea and fix the problem with the illness. carefully your cat may be becoming dehydrated.