Kitten diarrhea

So i got this kitten and he is the best, but i had changed his food apparently sonce i had no idea what his previous food was, so, im wondering if i could just keep feeding him what i have untill the diarrhea goes away or if i should see how he responds to other foods? Thanks
(Currently feeding him blue buffalo kitten food)

I'm first going to suggest you have him seen by a vet. Kittens are very prone to parasites and need medication to treat.

How long has the diarrhea been going on? Is it just soft or is it liquid? How many times a day is he having it?

Has he been dewormed?

Hey thanks so mich for replying!
I have yet to bring him to the vet but we will be surrendering him on monday or tuesday, and then he will get checked out, and the stool is like half watery half somewhat solid (did not touch it since i was pretty grossed out and kinda panicy) but i did get him all washed up and what not and now he is sleeping..

I'm confused, I thought you recently adopted this kitten? Why are you having to surrender him?

If the continues to have diarrhea he will need to see a vet sooner than Monday or Tuesday. Kittens get dehydrated very easily/quickly and it can be fatal. One or two episodes isn't much to worry about, but more than that is reason to seek vet care.

Yes, how old is this kitten and where did you get it?  

Kittenz2 said:

So i got this kitten and he is the best, but i had changed his food apparently sonce i had no idea what his previous food was, so, im wondering if i could just keep feeding him what i have untill the diarrhea goes away or if i should see how he responds to other foods? Thanks
(Currently feeding him blue buffalo kitten food)

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If he has diarrhea more than occasionally, he will need fluids and pedialyte.  Pedialyte instead of common water.  Having diarrhea makes he lose lotsa of of salts and electrolytes.

Flavorless pedialyte for babies is probably best, but its possible to make home made pedialyte too.

Of course, consultation with the vet is wise anyway, especielly as you dont really know what it is from.  It could for example easily be some sort of parasite, alike coccidia or giardia - especielly if he is from outside.

Im pasteing an essay of different recipes of working home made pedialytes.

Pedialyte:

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

You use the receipt which is conventient for you, where you can get the gears without problems.

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.

Thanks so much for all the help guys, this diarrhea happened once and i kind of paniced lol but right now his poop looks normal, not sure what it was but i will definately get him checked out soon. Have a great day ^-^

Glad all is well now! [emoji]128522[/emoji]