Re: Antibiotics and esophageal ulcers and IBD

2005-03-22 Thread Julie Johnson
Hi Nina, Fortunately, Coco is totally cooperative about the pilling and we've only had one incident (my fault; I didn't drop the flagyl far enough back in his mouth) where we've had "yikes! that tastes bad!!" for a reaction. I've been doing a fair bit of research on IBD, too, because at one time

Re: Antibiotics and esophageal ulcers and IBD

2005-03-22 Thread Nina
Julie, My East/West vet gave us something called Nutrigest. It's a supplement with L-Glutamine, ginger and lots of other things that have been found to help GI distress. I'm very lucky in that Gypsy really likes the raw food. We had a session with an AC and Gypsy told her she wanted birds and

Re: Antibiotics and esophageal ulcers and IBD

2005-03-22 Thread Nina
Julie, I bet you're right, I bet she'd love caviar! It's fish eggs, after all. Where did you order the Nutrigest from? I'll bet it's a better price, than through my vet. Nina Julie Johnson wrote: Hi Nina, Duck, huh? Don't these little stinkers have caviar tastes? Oops; don't let Gypsy

Antibiotics and esophageal ulcers

2005-03-21 Thread Julie Johnson
Hi Everyone, I was just talking with my vet Friday night about this very thing. Coco has been quite ill and they have diagnosed IBD. One of the medications he's on right now is Flagyl which tastes wretched. Wendy mentioned not to put that one in food because kitty will take a bite, see how yucky

Re: Antibiotics and esophageal ulcers and IBD

2005-03-21 Thread catatonya
They make flagyl in flavored 'treats' now... Your vet should be able to get you some. tNina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Julie,I'm calling my vet today to see if we can have the Dox compounded into a flavored liquid. Grace has been using it on and off for a long time now. Michelle Rose, the