In
a message dated 3/6/2005 8:24:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyway they have started to have greenish brown liquid
diarrhea. Anyone know what this is from, I ran a fecal at work and
they were neg for parasites (I know they're not shed in every BM so
I'll be running more) but in the meantime should I be concerned about
the diarrhea.
Could
be coccidia (especially if there's a unique smell to it - once you've
smelled coccidia, you know what it is - kind of the way you know a dog
has parvo when you smell it, even if you've never personally been
around a dog with parvo before), could be diet change. Switch to the
powdered dry milk and see if it helps (sometimes that does wonders).
It's also safe to use albon as a precaution. If it were my litter,
while I was trying to get results from a stool check and sort out the
food issue, I'd go ahead and start them on albon once a day and amoxy
drops twice a day as a precaution. Centrine and endosorb mixed
together (the liquid forms of both meds) is great for stopping diarrhea
quick. Keep them with a heating pad set on low under a hand towel also
- they don't thermoregulate well enough to not need extra heat yet.
The extra heat won't stop the diarrhea, but it will make them more
comfortable.
Several
years ago, I had a kitten that had diarrhea and wouldn't wean off the
bottle, so I fed her "chicken shakes" (milk replacer, rice baby cereal,
and chicken baby food thin enough to go through the nipple). The
kitten was 6 weeks old and still not showing any hint of being willing
to eat out of a dish and I couldn't get the diarrhea stopped (she
didn't respond to the normal treatment for diarrhea - albon &
centrine/endosorb mix). She kept losing weight and she ended up
dying a week or so later. A week after that kitten died, another one
came here, and after a week or so, she also started diarrhea that
didn't want to respond to the "normal" treatment. Out of desperation,
I started her on the standard dose for her weight of amoxy drops.
Within 3 days she was cured. I told the vet about it, and he said he'd
had a couple patients who'd been having difficult to stop diarrhea, so
he started them on amoxy and it cleared it up for them too, so, for
that year at least, there was a bug floating around that was sensitive
to amoxy and, apparently, little else. Since then, I just start amoxy
when I treat for diarrhea in kittens just as a standard practice. I
haven't lost one to diarrhea since.
Where there's Life, there's Hope
Kathy
"There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and there is nothing so
gentle as real strength." ~ Sir Francis de Sates
