Inflamatory Bowel Disease in cats

You have a beautiful cat
You may be interested in joining this egroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FelineIBD/

You need a yahoo ID but its free...good luck.

Im glad and your welcome.

Micah is such a handsome boy!!!

I just rescued an Aby last month. He had some bowel problems, but they seemed to resolve pretty quickly once he was here in a stable and loving environment. He'd been living in a squalid, mold-covered basement bathroom for over 2 yrs when he was finally rescued. The previous "owner" called him Stinky. We renamed him Khepera, an Egyptian God's name, to give him more self confidence It seems to have worked!

Best of luck getting Micah back to health. Sending scritches to all your kitties!

I had a cat that was diagnosed with IBD after an endoscopy was done She lost 4 pounds over a few months, had the runny stools and barely ate as well. It was so very sad.. we had her on predinisone and flactyl (I think, cant remember exactly what it was called) for a about two months but it didnt help. Eventually we had to put her down because she got so bad.. she stopped eating entirely and didnt have any positive reactions to the medication so the vet suspected cancer or something on top of the IBD. I dunno, I still hurt because of this.. I had wished the vet could have done more for her.

I would personally go for the exploratory surgery. If we would have done the exploratory surgery instead of the endoscopy, the vet might have been able to find the cancer (or whatever) in time to be able to treat it. I opted for the endoscopy instead because it would be less traumatic and painful for the cat. But in the end it didnt matter

Sorry to be so depressing, that was my experience with IBD though.

I agree with sicycat...

whenever i'm deciding on what's best for my cats i always use this technique...
i consider all the options and available information, i put on my rational hat and i look into the future and ask myself:

am i going to regret not trying this option?

We've put Micah on human grade food and in just three days, he has a ton of energy and he's doing even better! He only used the litterbox twice today...a feat in itself.

I've joined the yahoo feline IBD group and am learning about the raw diet. Its showing that IBD can actually be cured! I'm amazed.

I still need to call the homeopathic vet...just got back from San Diego, I'm a auntie now!!!

Was he using vet words?

My vet gave me Prozyme and Jarro-Dophilus and it worked like a charm. Stools firmed up and haven't had a problem since. Good Luck!

Ask him about treating IBD with Psyllium added to the diet.

how is he doing today?

The brand of Psyllium I hcan highly recommend is the Footrpints brand from GNC. It comes in capsule form and is very finely ground. Just add a dropp of water/broth and it will turn into mush with very little or no grit which then can be added to most anything very easily.

You will see it will make a hugh difference for the better.


Good luck!

I have a cat in the same situation, he's perfectly healthy except he keeps throwing up his food. I kept taking him back to the vet, they kept wanting to keep him overnight and do tests, and they kept giving him different medications, told me to change his food, said it could be gastritis, and in the end, there still is no diagnosis, they just think it could be IBD. They wanted him to stay on medication and possibly steriods for the rest of his life, I just couldn't see that happening, especially since my kitty hated taking the medicine and I never even knew if he was getting any because he kept spitting it out. So I performed a little test, since I knew the vet told me that my kitty was vomiting because of bad bacteria in his small intestines, which he said was probably causing a little gas and causing him to vomit, I decided to try a natural approach. I give him acidophilus once a day, which you can get at any drugstore for about $4, and he seems 100% better, even his eye boogers cleared up. He also doesn't even mind taking the acidophilus. I feed him Eukanuba for Sensitive Stomach and give him one acidophilus capsule a day and nothing else, no treats, no food on the countertops, I even close the bathroom doors because he likes to lick the water in the shower and sinks and he usually vomits immediately after. I keep everything away from him except his food, water and acidophilus. To administer it to him, I open up the capsule, pour the powder in a little dish and I got a dropper from the pharmacist at CVS, add a little water, mix the powder and water together and suck it up with the dropper and open up my kitty's mouth and drop it down his throat. He never trys to spit it up at all, I've never had a problem with giving him the acidophilus. I've also noticed that he poops more frequently,as he should, and it looks much more like it should, he even stopped passing kitty gas pewwww! I'm not a vet or anything but it's just a natural approach I've tried and seems to work, and since it is natural I don't see any harm in trying, especially if it's working. Good luck!