Re: Question on diarrhea

[Nina]

As you know, my Gypsy has chronic diarrhea.  Her nutrient absorption was so poor, that she almost starved to death.  We put her on everything the vets had to throw at her, Pred, Flagil, Baytril, Penicillin, etc.  Finally I got her off of dry and on to raw meat.  I started with duck breast and salmon.  It saved her life.  I am beginning to be suspicious that her recovery has less to do with the food being raw and more to do with a consistent diet.  Any change, or variation, including supplements sends her into a relapse.  I almost lost her again when Grace died.  I had been offering Gracie so many different things to encourage her to eat and Gypsy was "stealing" bites here and there.  Her diarrhea came back with a vengeance and I couldn't get her to eat anything raw.  I've had her on homeopathic remedies, (I know they've helped), and she finally has stuck to one type of food, (this time cooked turkey).  Just switching her from cooked chicken to cooked turkey gave her diarrhea again.  It's not the whole answer, but it's a part of it.  I think that's why some of the special diets that the vets recommend, (most of them crap ingredients), work, the cat eats one thing only and the diarrhea resolves.  Adding a pinch of bone meal to her food may help in a bandaid kind of way, firming up her stool and slowing the processing time long enough for her body to get back to normal.  Which is of course what you're doing when you give her kaopectate type medicines.  I actually think she'll do better once you get her off of the antibiotics. N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Lucy still has diarrhea, going on a week now. It started a few days before her surgery, I think from my switching her diets too quickly-- she had been on S/D only for about 6 weeks, and I stupidly switched her to S/O over only two days when it was clear her bladder stone was not struvite and had gotten bigger rather than smaller on the S/D.  She had been on Baytril for a month at that point too, because without it she kept getting UTI's due to the bladder stone. Since 2 days after surgery she has been off the baytril, but I have had to switch her food again (this time i am doing it slowly) due to finding out her stone was ammonia urate (neither struvite nor oxylate). She has been on Metronidazole for 4 days.  I am concerned, because I have never seen diarrhea in a cat take longer than 2 days to resolve on Metronidazole, and the vet seemed surprised as well. I have been giving her slippery elm, and today started giving her a feline kaolin diarrhea over-the-counter med.  I gave her acidophilus for a few days after stopping the Baytril.   Any suggestions? Also, have any of you ever seen diarrhea persist for over a week, with no other symptoms, from something like antibiotics or dietary change, but then resolve in a little more time?   Thanks, Michelle