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Hello, Ive read quite a few posts here about cats with IBD, chronic diarrhea etc and have found them really helpful but just wanted to share my current experience in case someone can see something obvious in what I'm doing wrong.
I have an 11 month old kitten and since about June of this year he has had pretty awful diarrhea. The first time the vet found clostridium perfringens in his stool and gave me metronidazole which cleared it up. He went for his neutering and the diarrhea returned but i put it down to the surgery and meds he took for that. It didnt get better and he also started vomiting, I took him to a closer vet to me (my mistake!) And they couldnt find anything wrong....they told me repeatedly they had tested for clostridium perfringens but eventually they found out that they hadn't and a month after i had first brought him in, did a second fecal test and found CP... They gave him metronidazole suspension which was stressful to administer to him and eventually he started getting even worse. I had in parallel done a fecal test with PALS animal laboratory and when that came back it showed he had high levels of e-coli and clostridium perfringens. I took him back to the old vet who gave us an antibiotic for the e-coli and metronidazole tablets to replace the liquid. Almost straight away he started getting better! Finally some light
He finished his metronidazole on Saturday and now has gone back to full blown diarrhea. The vet has asked me to get the lab to run a fecal test again which I will do. Theyve also asked me to change his food to one containing hydrolyzed protein - which he pretty much refuses to eat. On the food front Im a bit confused because I havent changed it recently and when his diarrhea did clear up with the antibiotics it was the same food. Is that the antibiotic helping with whatever adverse reaction the food is causing or is focussing on the food detracting from whatever is actually going on in his little body? Im almost 90% sure when the fecal test comes back its going to be the CP again. I love him to buts and am sick with worry for him so just hoping someone can tell me something to give me some hope! I ordered some biogran so that I can give him some Saccharomyces Boulardii in his diet but just at a loss what to do. I have previously tried just giving him poached chicken, and have also tried poached fish. He eats it all but no improvement in his diarrhea, and he's definitely uncomfortable
Additionally, if anyone in London is aware of a vet that has a specialty focussing on this type of condition, really happy to get the name!
I have an 11 month old kitten and since about June of this year he has had pretty awful diarrhea. The first time the vet found clostridium perfringens in his stool and gave me metronidazole which cleared it up. He went for his neutering and the diarrhea returned but i put it down to the surgery and meds he took for that. It didnt get better and he also started vomiting, I took him to a closer vet to me (my mistake!) And they couldnt find anything wrong....they told me repeatedly they had tested for clostridium perfringens but eventually they found out that they hadn't and a month after i had first brought him in, did a second fecal test and found CP... They gave him metronidazole suspension which was stressful to administer to him and eventually he started getting even worse. I had in parallel done a fecal test with PALS animal laboratory and when that came back it showed he had high levels of e-coli and clostridium perfringens. I took him back to the old vet who gave us an antibiotic for the e-coli and metronidazole tablets to replace the liquid. Almost straight away he started getting better! Finally some light
He finished his metronidazole on Saturday and now has gone back to full blown diarrhea. The vet has asked me to get the lab to run a fecal test again which I will do. Theyve also asked me to change his food to one containing hydrolyzed protein - which he pretty much refuses to eat. On the food front Im a bit confused because I havent changed it recently and when his diarrhea did clear up with the antibiotics it was the same food. Is that the antibiotic helping with whatever adverse reaction the food is causing or is focussing on the food detracting from whatever is actually going on in his little body? Im almost 90% sure when the fecal test comes back its going to be the CP again. I love him to buts and am sick with worry for him so just hoping someone can tell me something to give me some hope! I ordered some biogran so that I can give him some Saccharomyces Boulardii in his diet but just at a loss what to do. I have previously tried just giving him poached chicken, and have also tried poached fish. He eats it all but no improvement in his diarrhea, and he's definitely uncomfortable
Additionally, if anyone in London is aware of a vet that has a specialty focussing on this type of condition, really happy to get the name!