I have an about 8 week old kitty that was found on the side of the road about 4 weeks ago with a broken leg. She broke her hip and her ankle. She was weak when we found her, and we immediately took her to the vet. The vet originally wanted us to feed her Science Diet dry food. However, when we brought her home and started feeding her, she would throw up after she ate. After i mentioned the vomiting, the vet recommended that we attempt the Science Diet A/D wet food, which we did. She did a little better with that, but she was still vomiting sometimes after eating, as well as making noises out of her nose that sounded very much like a sprinkler...it was almost as if she were getting something caught in her nose, so i started spreading her food around the plate to keep her from digging her nose in it. This helped a little, but did not alleviate the vomiting after eating.
When it was time for her 2nd round of shots, I called the vet and asked them to take her in at about 10 am and let her stay there that day so they could watch what she's doing when she throws up, because they seemed to think it was just an upset stomach. When i went back to pick her up at 5, they said they had been attempting to feed her all day, and she threw up everything they gave her. This was the first time they even acknowledged that the vomiting might be something more. So, they had given her an x-ray and had seen a foreign object in her stomach. It was small, and they believed that it was possibly something metal or plastic that she had ingested. They gave her a shot, which i cannot remember the name of, that is supposed to speed up the gastrointestinal process, recommended taking her home, and feeding her small meals of dry food sprinkled with metamucil in order to try to get the foreign object to move. She refused to eat the Science Diet dry food (i'm assuming because they had been trying to get her to eat it all day and she kept getting sick) so i had to give her Purina One for kittens
I took her back the next morning at 8 am to have another x-ray. I had just gotten back home when the vet called to tell me that the foreign object was no longer in her stomach, which was a great thing!!! However, she wouldnt eat their Science Diet food, so they asked me to bring some Purina One up there for her, so i did, and requested that she eat her first meal there. I waited while they fed her, and they came back out to tell me that she had, in fact, thrown it up, and believed it was because the vet tech gave her about 10 pieces of dry food instead of 3....so they gave her another shot of the stuff to speed up her gastrointestinal process and wanted me to do the same thing i had done the night before, except this time, to increase the amount of food every hour...start with 3 pieces, then 4, and so on. So, i did. She did good until we got up to 6 pieces, then she vomited...
i called the vet and they said i had given her too much food (even though i did what they said). They prescribed me and anti-vomiting medicine called Metoclopramide/Reglan Syrup (1 mL every 8 hours), which i went and picked up immediately. They told me to go back down to 3 pieces every hour for about 4 or 5 times, then increase it. I went home and gave her to the meds and, shockingly, she immediately threw up when she hadnt eaten in over 2 hours. However, she did it so quick that she managed to eat it again, so i didn't giver her more medicine.
This whole thing has been completely heartbreaking because my kitten is SOOO hungry. She screamed and whined at me all night because i didnt feed her more than 2 pieces every hour. She stole bread off of my plate, she scrounged around the kitchen searching for food....she even stole some of the dog's food when the dog walked away from it!!!! And she threw up a couple of times that night.
She threw up once this morning, but that was because my roommate gave her too much food before i woke up. Since then, i've given her about 1/3 of a forkful of Science Diet A/D every hour, and i decided to cook some Jasmine rice for her. I gave her maybe about 10 pieces of the rice and a tablespoon of the juice it was in. She seems to be doing ok, but she has gagged a few times, though she hasnt thrown up..yet
I need help, because i have no idea whats going on, and everything the vet is doing seems not to help...i've spent almost $300 in the last 24 hours to have a kitten that is still vomiting...does ANYONE have ANY idea what may be going on?????
When it was time for her 2nd round of shots, I called the vet and asked them to take her in at about 10 am and let her stay there that day so they could watch what she's doing when she throws up, because they seemed to think it was just an upset stomach. When i went back to pick her up at 5, they said they had been attempting to feed her all day, and she threw up everything they gave her. This was the first time they even acknowledged that the vomiting might be something more. So, they had given her an x-ray and had seen a foreign object in her stomach. It was small, and they believed that it was possibly something metal or plastic that she had ingested. They gave her a shot, which i cannot remember the name of, that is supposed to speed up the gastrointestinal process, recommended taking her home, and feeding her small meals of dry food sprinkled with metamucil in order to try to get the foreign object to move. She refused to eat the Science Diet dry food (i'm assuming because they had been trying to get her to eat it all day and she kept getting sick) so i had to give her Purina One for kittens
I took her back the next morning at 8 am to have another x-ray. I had just gotten back home when the vet called to tell me that the foreign object was no longer in her stomach, which was a great thing!!! However, she wouldnt eat their Science Diet food, so they asked me to bring some Purina One up there for her, so i did, and requested that she eat her first meal there. I waited while they fed her, and they came back out to tell me that she had, in fact, thrown it up, and believed it was because the vet tech gave her about 10 pieces of dry food instead of 3....so they gave her another shot of the stuff to speed up her gastrointestinal process and wanted me to do the same thing i had done the night before, except this time, to increase the amount of food every hour...start with 3 pieces, then 4, and so on. So, i did. She did good until we got up to 6 pieces, then she vomited...
i called the vet and they said i had given her too much food (even though i did what they said). They prescribed me and anti-vomiting medicine called Metoclopramide/Reglan Syrup (1 mL every 8 hours), which i went and picked up immediately. They told me to go back down to 3 pieces every hour for about 4 or 5 times, then increase it. I went home and gave her to the meds and, shockingly, she immediately threw up when she hadnt eaten in over 2 hours. However, she did it so quick that she managed to eat it again, so i didn't giver her more medicine.
This whole thing has been completely heartbreaking because my kitten is SOOO hungry. She screamed and whined at me all night because i didnt feed her more than 2 pieces every hour. She stole bread off of my plate, she scrounged around the kitchen searching for food....she even stole some of the dog's food when the dog walked away from it!!!! And she threw up a couple of times that night.
She threw up once this morning, but that was because my roommate gave her too much food before i woke up. Since then, i've given her about 1/3 of a forkful of Science Diet A/D every hour, and i decided to cook some Jasmine rice for her. I gave her maybe about 10 pieces of the rice and a tablespoon of the juice it was in. She seems to be doing ok, but she has gagged a few times, though she hasnt thrown up..yet
I need help, because i have no idea whats going on, and everything the vet is doing seems not to help...i've spent almost $300 in the last 24 hours to have a kitten that is still vomiting...does ANYONE have ANY idea what may be going on?????
