Just to recap, about six weeks ago I found two white kittens on my doorstep, I suspect dumped there. They had almost every internal and external parasite going, and were skeletal. On top of the normal parasites my vet, Haris, did a fecal and diagnosed giardia. They have just finished a 20 day course of Medazole and are much much better in that they no longer have bloody (literal, not swearing!) smelly diarrhoea, but their stools are still not quite normal and one of them still lets out gas. But they have filled out and eat, play and fight like normal kittens now.
Yesterday I spoke to Haris about what to do, and whether we should change the med to Flagyl. He thought that was too like the Medazole and recommended Bactrim. He did not think another fecal was necessary. But here is my question - in my experience Bactrim is an antibiotic, used for UTIs, which these two do not have - I have never heard it used for parasites. Does anyone have any ideas? I got the Bactrim but have not yet started giving it to them ( Here you can walk into a pharmacy and buy anything OTC without prescription -not that I would do that without vet advice).
Yesterday I spoke to Haris about what to do, and whether we should change the med to Flagyl. He thought that was too like the Medazole and recommended Bactrim. He did not think another fecal was necessary. But here is my question - in my experience Bactrim is an antibiotic, used for UTIs, which these two do not have - I have never heard it used for parasites. Does anyone have any ideas? I got the Bactrim but have not yet started giving it to them ( Here you can walk into a pharmacy and buy anything OTC without prescription -not that I would do that without vet advice).