Re: Question on diarrhea

[Lernermichelle]

Nina,     She has been off the antibiotics for days now. Which homeopathic remedies do you feel helped Gypsy? Thanks, Michelle   In a message dated 10/30/2005 9:30:07 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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