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I recently adopted two kittens (10-14 weeks) from a shelter.
The male kitten is hearty as a lion. The female ate like crazy and seemed ok until three days in. I woke up and got her out for personal cuddle time. Fell asleep with her on my chest. Woke up and she hadn't even adjusted position. Sat her down in her play pen, she just curled up right there. Noticed she seemed overly warm and breathing very deeply. Visited the vet, seems she aspirated her food which caused the breathing issues and a low grade fever. She was given nausea medication and antibiotics. After this she threw up 1-4 hours after eating almost every meal. It was partly digested and mostly liquid (she has wet food as well as dry and is very good at drinking water). She did not have diarrhea at any point during this. She is peeing, pooping, eating and playing. Just at some point she would act sickly, lick her lips a lot then throw up awhile later. I feel like it happens even more at night when she's trying to sleep a long time.
Took her back to the vet, she lost a little weight but otherwise seemed ok. The vet gave me some canned digestive food and de-wormer. I asked if probiotics would be appropriate so he gave me some of those as well. The next day they let me know she had tested positive for Coccidia and gave me Albon to give both kittens for 8 days.
I noticed any time she ate the Royal Canin Digestive food she would slow down a lot and just overall seemed like she felt sick, picking her up even gently elicited a "hurk" sound. So I stopped feeding her that altogether and switched to Stella and Chewy's canned kitten food and no dry food. She perked up almost immediately. I noticed she would eat and instead of getting sluggish she was ready to go play and tumble all over the place.
She made it through the entire day and then at bedtime, once again, she was sick. Since then there are good and bad days, her weight is a yoyo but very slowly heading upwards. I'm trying to track her meals and vomiting episodes as well as I can but it's hard to keep up with when I'm at work. I am slowly switching her over to yet another food since the S&C's she is eating has a few ingredients that could potentially trigger stomach upset if she is just an extremely sensitive girl.
The Honest Kitchen is my next bet, was very happy with the information they provided when asked about the nutritionist that designs their formulas as well as the fact that all their foods seem to include Omega 3&6 as well as DHA, which after watching a few interviews with ACVN certified nutritionists may also be helpful in adult cats. She's going to the vet again tomorrow and is still getting probiotics on most meals.
TLDR: New kitten is having vomiting episodes. Vet treated her for aspiration pneumonia with antibiotics, gave her de-wormer then treated her for coccidia with Albon (She had no signs of worms or symptoms of coccidia, but tested positive for Coccidia). Vet suggested digestive food (I had Royal Canin wet) but it appeared to make her condition worse. Switched her to S&C's Chicken and Salmon Kitten food and noticed a marked improvement but she is still ill quite often. She is still active, using her litter often and very very slowly gaining weight. Currently slowly switching her to The Honest Kitchen wet food and continuing to add probiotics to most meals.
Any advice? Things to ask the vet tomorrow?
The male kitten is hearty as a lion. The female ate like crazy and seemed ok until three days in. I woke up and got her out for personal cuddle time. Fell asleep with her on my chest. Woke up and she hadn't even adjusted position. Sat her down in her play pen, she just curled up right there. Noticed she seemed overly warm and breathing very deeply. Visited the vet, seems she aspirated her food which caused the breathing issues and a low grade fever. She was given nausea medication and antibiotics. After this she threw up 1-4 hours after eating almost every meal. It was partly digested and mostly liquid (she has wet food as well as dry and is very good at drinking water). She did not have diarrhea at any point during this. She is peeing, pooping, eating and playing. Just at some point she would act sickly, lick her lips a lot then throw up awhile later. I feel like it happens even more at night when she's trying to sleep a long time.
Took her back to the vet, she lost a little weight but otherwise seemed ok. The vet gave me some canned digestive food and de-wormer. I asked if probiotics would be appropriate so he gave me some of those as well. The next day they let me know she had tested positive for Coccidia and gave me Albon to give both kittens for 8 days.
I noticed any time she ate the Royal Canin Digestive food she would slow down a lot and just overall seemed like she felt sick, picking her up even gently elicited a "hurk" sound. So I stopped feeding her that altogether and switched to Stella and Chewy's canned kitten food and no dry food. She perked up almost immediately. I noticed she would eat and instead of getting sluggish she was ready to go play and tumble all over the place.
She made it through the entire day and then at bedtime, once again, she was sick. Since then there are good and bad days, her weight is a yoyo but very slowly heading upwards. I'm trying to track her meals and vomiting episodes as well as I can but it's hard to keep up with when I'm at work. I am slowly switching her over to yet another food since the S&C's she is eating has a few ingredients that could potentially trigger stomach upset if she is just an extremely sensitive girl.
The Honest Kitchen is my next bet, was very happy with the information they provided when asked about the nutritionist that designs their formulas as well as the fact that all their foods seem to include Omega 3&6 as well as DHA, which after watching a few interviews with ACVN certified nutritionists may also be helpful in adult cats. She's going to the vet again tomorrow and is still getting probiotics on most meals.
TLDR: New kitten is having vomiting episodes. Vet treated her for aspiration pneumonia with antibiotics, gave her de-wormer then treated her for coccidia with Albon (She had no signs of worms or symptoms of coccidia, but tested positive for Coccidia). Vet suggested digestive food (I had Royal Canin wet) but it appeared to make her condition worse. Switched her to S&C's Chicken and Salmon Kitten food and noticed a marked improvement but she is still ill quite often. She is still active, using her litter often and very very slowly gaining weight. Currently slowly switching her to The Honest Kitchen wet food and continuing to add probiotics to most meals.
Any advice? Things to ask the vet tomorrow?
Welcome to TCS,very nice to meet you
She threw up after breakfast but it was that immediate "food hit empty stomach too suddenly" type of reaction.
(I calmed her down before she did, think she got a hair or something tickling her throat)
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