I have a male domestic short hair that is 3 and a half years old who has IBD. I got him from a local pound about a year ago because the people who had him before this time could not care for him because of his IBD so they let him go. In this last year he has had two IBD flareups, one started on the first day of summer and the latest started on the first day of winter. The first one started with his stools softening up and then turning into diarrhea and then blood and mucus would come out with his stools. He would start to throw up after this and get to a point where he could not keep any food down at all. My vet has access to his previous health records and he used to have these flareups all of the time so they treated him with Metronidazole and Cerenia and so we did the same thing. He was on Cerenia for 5 days to settle his stomach and he stopped throwing up and he was on Metronidazole for about a week after his stools returned to normal.
On December 22nd I noticed a change in his stools which got worse over the next few days and by Christmas he was throwing up and his stools were only partially formed. I started him on Cerenia on Christmas and then started the Metronidazole the next day because he continued to throw up and was not eating as much. I was able to get him into the vet a day after this and they found he was dehydrated from moisture going out both ends and then he got a sub-q for about a week to address this. By Jan 1st he was doing much better and eating and was able to keep it down for the last few days and was improving. He is back to normal now but he still has diarrhea and we are almost at a month from when it first started. I started him on Metronidazole on December 27th and he was switched to Tylosin Tartrate on January 16th and still no changes.
He is not using drugs to control his IBD and seems very stable for the most part other than the few flareups. This is a huge improvement from before as he was having these flareups all of the time before he was given up for adoption. In general he is doing although he is overweight so he has been on a diet shortly after he came to me and has been slowly dropping weight. He is on the very low side of normal for anemia and he had very low B12 levels. He went through a cycle of B12 shots and he is now at a shot every 6 weeks and his levels are fine now. He had a blood test last week and I also had a diarrhea test done and nothing was found that was abnormal for him. At this time there is nothing obvious that the vet can see which is why we went to Tylosin Tartrate to see if that helped him.
I tried at least 50 kinds of foods from the IBDKitties site and the only ones he will consistently eat are some of the Fancy Feast foods. When his first flareup came about he was on the Chicken Pate and then stopped eating it after but he would eat some of the fish flavoured pate ones so I would just cycle through them can after can. I switched him from the fish based foods back to chicken pate Fancy Feast but it has only been a day so no real changes. I have not tried him on raw yet as he was doing well on commercial foods and I had a bad experience with raw and my last IBD cat so I am a little gun shy. He also has Royal Canin prescription food but the only one he will eat is dry and certainly down there on his list but I can switch him to this if needed.
Because his food has been doing him fairly well for the last year where what can I do otherwise to help settle down his stools? He is currently getting Tylosin Tartrate twice a day and no other drugs at this time.
Thanks for any input to Fatboy's current issue.
On December 22nd I noticed a change in his stools which got worse over the next few days and by Christmas he was throwing up and his stools were only partially formed. I started him on Cerenia on Christmas and then started the Metronidazole the next day because he continued to throw up and was not eating as much. I was able to get him into the vet a day after this and they found he was dehydrated from moisture going out both ends and then he got a sub-q for about a week to address this. By Jan 1st he was doing much better and eating and was able to keep it down for the last few days and was improving. He is back to normal now but he still has diarrhea and we are almost at a month from when it first started. I started him on Metronidazole on December 27th and he was switched to Tylosin Tartrate on January 16th and still no changes.
He is not using drugs to control his IBD and seems very stable for the most part other than the few flareups. This is a huge improvement from before as he was having these flareups all of the time before he was given up for adoption. In general he is doing although he is overweight so he has been on a diet shortly after he came to me and has been slowly dropping weight. He is on the very low side of normal for anemia and he had very low B12 levels. He went through a cycle of B12 shots and he is now at a shot every 6 weeks and his levels are fine now. He had a blood test last week and I also had a diarrhea test done and nothing was found that was abnormal for him. At this time there is nothing obvious that the vet can see which is why we went to Tylosin Tartrate to see if that helped him.
I tried at least 50 kinds of foods from the IBDKitties site and the only ones he will consistently eat are some of the Fancy Feast foods. When his first flareup came about he was on the Chicken Pate and then stopped eating it after but he would eat some of the fish flavoured pate ones so I would just cycle through them can after can. I switched him from the fish based foods back to chicken pate Fancy Feast but it has only been a day so no real changes. I have not tried him on raw yet as he was doing well on commercial foods and I had a bad experience with raw and my last IBD cat so I am a little gun shy. He also has Royal Canin prescription food but the only one he will eat is dry and certainly down there on his list but I can switch him to this if needed.
Because his food has been doing him fairly well for the last year where what can I do otherwise to help settle down his stools? He is currently getting Tylosin Tartrate twice a day and no other drugs at this time.
Thanks for any input to Fatboy's current issue.