On Cat Vomiting and Diarrhea - My Experience

chenxiaoshuai

TCS Member
Thread starter
Young Cat
Joined
Nov 8, 2013
Messages
43
Purraise
2
In the past couple of weeks my cat Mushe has been struggling with 2 problems - vomiting and diarrhea/lose stool. They did not quite happened at the same time, but considering 9 times of vomiting in 10 days, it was still very stressful. 

For vomiting , my vet gave 2 recommendations that really helped: 

1. smaller portions of food each time

2. make sure he didn't eat something he shouldn't

Given Mushe was only a 5-month old, we quickly ruled out the possibilities of cancer and pancreatic diseases, as well as anything that usually took longer  to develop. The result of following these suggestions is 0 vomiting ever since. So what was the trigger? I believe the real cause was the little stripes of feather that he accidentally devoured when playing with the feather toy. Sometime he bites it, and the artificial feather with harder texture went into his stomach and irritated it, causing him to vomit things he ate especially when food intake was large (i.e. 3/4 can of 6oz wet food).  I did not catch the feather issue until he constantly puked for 2 weeks and I accidentally saw that green/yellowish thing in his vomit.  Therefore paying attention was essential -  I should have caught the feather problem if I watched closer, instead of panicking at some potential severe diseases behind the symptom. 

For diarrhea, vet suggested putting a little cooked rice in his food might help, and I learned something else from this forum - feed wet food only. I've experimented both solutions for a few days and have seen steady improvement. Now Mushe only eats about 2 cans of 6 oz wet food a day instead of a mixture of canned and kibbles. I think he even enjoys his food more now. 

Just writing this post since people may find it helpful. By the way, anyone know how rice can help killing diarrhea? 
 

GemsGem

Mentor
Staff Member
Mentor
Joined
Dec 4, 2013
Messages
5,606
Purraise
2,118
Location
England
Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm glad you managed to sort out your cats problem.

I think rice helps with diarrhoea because it is a soluble fiber. Diarrhea happens when there is too much water in the colon. Soluble fiber can actually absorb excess fluid in the bowel and thus act to firm up a loose stool. Think of it as a sponge effect.
 
Top