kittens with soupy poop

StefanZ said:

 
One though, it, with that watery poop they do lose much salts and electrolytes.  so they need a compensation. Not just more fluids, but more electrolytes as well.

Easiest some nice pedialyte.  Im adding my Essay on how to get pedialyte. Its longish, because there are several receips, depending on what you have or can get.

Coccidia, which may cause such diarrhea, isnt always visible in a test.  So this is something to think about.   A common remedy is Albon. but it works slowly, as it makes the growing of the parasite slower, not killing them.  Ponazuril gets quicker results.

Pedialyte:

Re homemade pedialyte, Im reusing a couple of my older posts.  If it seems lenghy, the most important recipe is at the end.

Pedialyte:

Now, as the sugar source, I use always glucose sugar (dextrose  / dextropur ) Its easy to get in Sweden, most well equipped food shops do carry the powder.    There are also flavored sweeties, heavily used by students and  wanna be sportsmen,  made of glucose sugar.   

So for me its no big deal to use the proper ingredient, instead of using emergency replacements.

For american forumites whom have difficulties to find glucose sugar proper, there is always white caro syrup, or even honey - honey does contain some glucose, and white caro syrup contains much glucose sugar.  In some brands its perhaps even essentially liquid glucose sugar.

Common sugar works too, but much slower, as it must be digested..  While glucose doesnt need to be digested, it goes into blood directly from the stomach, yes, even from the lips and mouth.

These whom tried both, are astonished how quickly glucose works, practically instantly.

As salt source, I use  minerale salt.  Also common in shops here in Sweden.  This salt contains  several different minerales, not just the NaCl in the usual kitchen salt. Including this potassium K salt.

A nice base for salt sources is simple a bottle of good minerale water.   These do typically contain a lotsa of different salts, in suitable concentration. Look at the label!

Let the gas out, add the glucose sugar source, and voilá!  you got a terrific home made pedialyte...

Common kitchen salt is OK if you dont have anything else, but its too "poverty"  if you use the pedialyte more than occasionally.

A third recipe is,  you use water from well cooked rice.   In practice its heavily over cooked.

And add  salt to it, preferably  such a minerale salt mentioned above...

This rice water contains lotsa of glucose sugar.   This variation of  pedialyte probably extra useful in some types of diarrhea, as water from overcooked rice is in itself  one of the remedies against diarrhea.  At least, the emergency doc gave us the recipe when I was a child and sick in diarrhea...  

A nice combination should be,  a  homemade pedialyte on such an overboilded rice, in water of mineral water.

Here we get both natural glucose sugar, lotsa of good mineral salts, and the rests from rice whom are good when having a diarrhea.  After all, such rice water is a classical home remedy for humans with diarrhea...

There is of course bought pedialyte, which can be used too.  Some of the brands have too much funny ingredients, though.  But if desperate, can be used.

My recommendation for bough pedialyte is, flavorless pedialyte for babies.   This is OK for cats.

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sarthur2 said:

I am concerned that due to the diarrhea, the kittens are not getting enough nutrition, especially as you say they are always hungry. I would feed them as much as they want to eat, as they are also growing quickly.

What were the kittens eating before you took them home?

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sarthur2 said:

@Riley1

You can freeze the pedialyte in ice cube trays to keep it fresh.

The color of the poop is normal. Since they've had the soupy poop for two weeks, I have to agree with you that it may be the food. Their poop should be firm since they are eating solids. I think you should try different food.

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