Dewormed kittens have exceedingly watery poop - one with blood

Hello,

Reaching out here because I am super stressed out and after 5 Vet visits in 2 months (and soon to be another) I am still no better off than when i started.

Got two kittens, about a month apart.   Both were de-wormed by humane society (were given 2 de-wormings, 2 weeks apart.)

Oddly when I got kitten #2 he had watery poo -- stayed that way since I got him. Had  vet visits w/ shots etc but they seemed to think he was fine.

2 weeks ago kitten2 puked after eating and puke was full of adult roundworms.  This was awful but also a relief as I now knew the cause of kitten2's watery poo's! (or so I thought).

Took them in the next day, got them both de-wormed.  Kitten1's stool sample showed no indication of worms but the Vet de-wormed him too just to be safe.

Problem is:  Kitten1's stool never hardened.   I even started seeing little bit of blood around his butthole and in his stool.   This AM I saw him poo and it was really watery (disgusting) and towards the end, it was red with blood as he finished poo-ing.   

I am about to give both kittens their 2nd de-worming on Friday. Cats have not puked nor have I seen any adult roundworms in puke or stool since the day that we de-wormed them (last friday).

Note: I have stuck with the same food the whole time (blue buffalo kitten dry food and wet food but I stopped with the wet food a few days ago thinking that might help the stools.  It didn't.

Is it possible this is just the 2nd batch of roundworms forming this past 2 weeks?  I heard that after de-worming medicine, most kitten's stools re-harden pretty quickly (day or two) and lots of dead adult roundworms come out in the poo (the latter could have happened, i couldnt see any thru the litter tho)

The watery poo is causing them to step in it by accident and they track it everywhere, and its driving me a bit nuts.  Help?

There are several different types of deworming meds depending on the worms so I am glad they got an additional dose.  The two-week regimen is for roundworms, the very long, very thin worms that are not segmented - this kills their life cycle.   I would suggest that perhaps they have a bacterial infection and maybe a round of Amoxicillin might be useful.  That is an antibiotic that we give our kittens at our shelter to help firm up the stools.  If that fails we go to a few days (up to 7) of metronidazole.  You can suggest these to the vet.  One or both will help.

Oh yeah it was Pyrantel.  I understand the 2 week cycle, however, the problem is  that  this was almost 2 weeks ago and stool never hardened, it even got worse.

They were definitely roundworms, I could post some nasty pics but I wanted to spare everyone. 

I am giving them the 2nd dose of Pyrantel in a couple days (vet set me home with 2nd dose)  - problem is that kitty1 was supposedly de-wormed a month prior to this at the humane society. They also said he recieved 2x doses of Pyrantel, 2 weeks apart.  but he still came infected with them, I wrote that off to just possibly being re-infected from another cat even after 2x doses in 2 weeks (humane society can often make many mistakes)

I was not aware that they antibiotics help to harden stools.  Kitty2 also has had several coughing fits but they said it wasn't URI (and it didnt seem like it) - haven't heard a coughing fit in a day or two but he has them seemingly once a day at most.   Breathing and other stuff seems normal.

Slight pot-bellied appearance in kitty2 seems to have been improving since 1st round of de-worming.

Hope that the antibiotic does the trick, but would a bacterial infection cause blood in stool?

kneel23 said:

Hope that the antibiotic does the trick, but would a bacterial infection cause blood in stool?

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Parasites like coccidia and others are a very common cause of watery bloody stool. They should be tested for it, and i would recommend a PCR test, its a little bit more expensive but is 100% definitive.  This has gone on too long for your kittens and could be dangerous if not fixed, whatever the cause is.

UPDATE:   After second dose of Pyrantel that seems to have resolved the watery poop issues.     Have separate issue now with the other cat :\ http://www.thecatsite.com/t/331385/kitten-peed-in-my-bed-again-baffled-help