My 10 year old female cat has diarrhea with blood mixed in for years now, and I have noticed her vomiting up food once in a while ( no blood )
When we first got her she was on whiskas dry cat food and a mix of 9 lives and friskies canned food. She is still on the same canned food, but because I found out most cheap dry foods aren't nutritious, and I saw her develop the diarrhea and bad gas, I switched to science diet. This seemed to make her stomach worse, but she Loved the food so much.
I switched again to blue buffalo chicken. My other cat loves it, but my sick cat won't touch it so I had to resort back to the science diet to get her to eat.
In the past she has been on amoxycillan a few times for URI, and was de wormed at least 3 times. I'm wondering if the antibiotics messed up her digestive system years ago, and mabye the food isn't even the problem?
I don't know what to do, each year at the vet I tell them her symptoms and they only de worm her which helps her stomach for a few weeks then it's upset again.
Is there allergy blood tests for food allergy testing? I don't know what to do, my parents pay for the vet visits but I know the vets if I persist this will want every test under the sun and I know my parents won't allow so many tests. If there is one test to rule out certain issues that would be great!
When we first got her she was on whiskas dry cat food and a mix of 9 lives and friskies canned food. She is still on the same canned food, but because I found out most cheap dry foods aren't nutritious, and I saw her develop the diarrhea and bad gas, I switched to science diet. This seemed to make her stomach worse, but she Loved the food so much.
I switched again to blue buffalo chicken. My other cat loves it, but my sick cat won't touch it so I had to resort back to the science diet to get her to eat.
In the past she has been on amoxycillan a few times for URI, and was de wormed at least 3 times. I'm wondering if the antibiotics messed up her digestive system years ago, and mabye the food isn't even the problem?
I don't know what to do, each year at the vet I tell them her symptoms and they only de worm her which helps her stomach for a few weeks then it's upset again.
Is there allergy blood tests for food allergy testing? I don't know what to do, my parents pay for the vet visits but I know the vets if I persist this will want every test under the sun and I know my parents won't allow so many tests. If there is one test to rule out certain issues that would be great!