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Rosemary extract?

post #1 of 5
12/29/11 at 3:33pm
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My cat seems to be sensitive to this. It is the one thing that is common among several dry foods I have given her. It seems to bring on skin rippling and/or diarrhea.

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post #2 of 5
12/29/11 at 3:44pm
Not surprising - it's not normally something cats would eat LOL. It's used as a preservative.

I'm sorry it's giving her problems. But at least you seem to have identified the problem, so you can avoid it!
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post #3 of 5
12/29/11 at 5:01pm

That is quite unusual as rosemary extract is actually extremely healthy (not just nutritionally but even has medicinal uses) and it is not a common allergen (reason you see it so frequently used), but if you've narrowed it down then the hardest part is out of the way.   After all, chicken may be great protein, but not if you happen to be the .1% that are allergic to it!  smile.gif

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post #4 of 5
12/29/11 at 9:47pm
Someone I know from another forum has an epileptic dog, and one of his seizure triggers is rosemary extract. It took her a long time to narrow it down to that. I said this in the other thread, but since you mentioned the skin rippling I thought that was interesting. Feline hyperesthesia is thought by some vets/researchers to be a "partial seizure disorder", so maybe rosemary is a common seizure trigger.

The diarrhea can't really be blamed on seizure disorders, though tongue.gif.
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post #5 of 5
12/30/11 at 5:18am
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Originally Posted by Willowy View Post

Someone I know from another forum has an epileptic dog, and one of his seizure triggers is rosemary extract. It took her a long time to narrow it down to that. I said this in the other thread, but since you mentioned the skin rippling I thought that was interesting. Feline hyperesthesia is thought by some vets/researchers to be a "partial seizure disorder", so maybe rosemary is a common seizure trigger.
 


That's what I was thinking!

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