Hi Mel,
My cat with IBD was put on a special diet and prednisone if I remember correctly. (It was over 10 years ago.) In his case we were dealing with kidney disease as well, so he had to be on a diet for the kidney disease first and foremost. I am forwarding this to the list in case others have some ideas. I know IBD can be difficult to treat. Again, though, I have never heard of anything involving diarrhea having to do with leukemia.
I know some people have gone through special diets like allergy testing. For example you would get a venison based food and feed it for a month and see if that helps. If not you would then try duck, etc.... I also know that foods containing corn cause digestive problems. You have to try foods with as few ingredients as possible to find out what is irritating their systems. Again, I'm not the expert on IBD, but it sounds very much like IBD. When kittens at our shelter had diarrhea that didn't go away readily with med.s we would cook them boiled chicken and rice. Sometimes we would just give them the broth and the rice to try to clear up the diarrhea. Another thing is flagyl. Has that been tried? It's also called metronidazole.
Something you might consider is seeing a specialist who would know more about it. When I dealt with this 'regular' vets didn't do ultrasounds, etc.... so I was automatically sent to an internal specialist. Another idea would be to try a wholistic vet who might offer suggestions such as probiotics, etc... to try. Some vets just want to blame anything on felv or euthanize prematurely based on felv. Pumpkin mixed in with canned food did seem to help my cat as well. I hope you find some answers for poor Misha.
tonya
Paul Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
THanks for your repsonse. I have always thought Misha
might have IBD. I have read up some on IBD and
everything I have read so far seems to suggest that
diet change and medication works for IBD. Misha has
been given a variety of medications to help with her
problem and we even changed her to a prescription diet.
All to no avail. Things work for a while then we're
back to square one. The vet insists that because she is
FeLV+ that this is why she has the diarrhea. I don't
know. Thanks for your input.
Mel
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