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    Questions About My Lucy's Nutrition

    Please forgive any errors I typed this on my phone and the formatting was going crazy Hi, I haven't posted in years but I thinks it's time for a post. My Lucy is 18 yes old now and she's been battling IBD for a good 5+ years. She's always been a small cat probably 8 pounds at her heaviest but...
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    Lucy wonr eat any cat food Picky?Finicky?a Diva?

    She doesn't like eggs and I went with commercial raw in the past and she didn't like it. I started making my own at home which she loved for a while but snubs it. I have 2 different types of slipper elm powder but neither will make the the syrup and I just don't understand why. I tried a Dozen...
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    Lucy wonr eat any cat food Picky?Finicky?a Diva?

    Hello my Lucy has a long history here on the health forums. She's has IBD and the battle has been a tough one. Well this week has been a bad week when it comes to feedings. She wont eat ANY cat food. She ate 1feeding of Merrick L.I.D turkey but now wont touch it, she licked Wild callings turkey...
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    slippey elm bark help

    I got her to start eating a little using the chicken baby food and deli lo sodium turkey. The deli turkey is the last resort thing to try. No matter how sick she is she will always eat it but it gives her diarrhea. So I started with the turkey , then added some chicken baby food with the deli...
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    slippey elm bark help

    I got some new seb in powder form with no other ingredients in it and it still cane out like broth. Here's what I did: 1 teaspoon of seb 1/2 cup cold water Mixed the seb into the cold water Then I boiled it and stirred the entire time. I let it cool. Seb= soup broth Should I bring it to a...
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    IBD-on to the next chapter, where do we go from here?

    @catwoman I'm going through the same situation. My girl has been doing wonderfully on the ziwipeak venison for months and now all of a sudden its like back when she was first diagnosed. I've finally gotten her to start eating some regular food. I started with chicken baby food with some turkey...
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    need advice again .IBD Possible Kidney issues

    I spoke to the vet just now and he said her kidney values we slightly elevated and her liver enzymes were slightly high and he suggested an ultrasound which would have been no problem but they don't have anything available until November 13. He suggest I take her to the aspca to have the...
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    need advice again .IBD Possible Kidney issues

    And she just vomited. I'm at a loss.
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    need advice again .IBD Possible Kidney issues

    The Seb is made by "Now" it is capsule form and I've removed the powder from the capsule and followed the directions from the site. I ordered a different brand that is powder form so I will try that. As an update I was able to get Lucy to eat some baby food that I saw on tonyas site but that's...
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    need advice again .IBD Possible Kidney issues

    In the past week I've made a few posts about my Lucy and her IBD issues. For the past 2 weeks she's had a bad flare up of some kind and has been vomiting alot no matter the food. She lost alot of weight and has been snubbing food alot. On Thursday 10.15.15 she vomited a very large amount...
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    slippey elm bark help

    I've been trying to get slippery elm into my poor cat but I can't make it into a syrup. Every time I try it just turns out like soup broth. I mix a teaspoon of Deb I pull out of the capsules and put I in a 1/2 -1 cup of water (I tried both) and bring to a boil then let cool. My SEB is Pictures...
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    IBD-on to the next chapter, where do we go from here?

    In going through the exact same thing with my Lucy. I've tried every and I mean every brand of wet food. She doesnt like raw and dry makes her bloated. My girl lost so much weight and today at the vet is only 5.5 lbs. The vet thinks my girl might also have kidney issues also. The food that my...
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    My Lucy,vomiting ,food,IBD Hell

    Also the SEB is made by "now" and I believe has magnesium in it.
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    My Lucy,vomiting ,food,IBD Hell

    Than you all for responding. My Lucy has had xrays, ultrasounds ,pli tests, and some other tests. Originally she was given predisilone 2.5 2x a day for the "ibd" and an antibiotic that was made for her that had 2 antibiotics and pepcid ac in it to treat possible heliobacter . I stopped both...
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    My Lucy,vomiting ,food,IBD Hell

    Thank you for responding. My Lucy also has an issue digesting split foods. I used to make her chicken cutlets (plain,unbreaded) and chop it into little pieces but eventually she would vomit that back up. She can't hold down solid foods only wet foods that she can lick up. She has had x-rays and...
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