If your cat has diarrhea, treatment is a must. To begin with, it is worthwhile to find out what are the causes of diarrhea - perhaps your cat is not eating properly, overeating, or maybe this is poisoning or an infectious disease. In addition, diarrhea can cause bowel disease or food allergies.
In any case, if your cat has diarrhea, treatment should start from the fasting day - yes, that’s it. Your pet should go hungry for a day after it has diarrhea. After that, the next day, on an empty stomach, give your favorite drug Bifidum bacterin. There are five doses, you need to dilute the powder with five milliliters of boiled water, pour warm water into the bottle with a syringe.
After this, during the day, give the pet two halves of the tablet of activated carbon. It can be dissolved in water or put on a cat’s tongue and closed her mouth so that she swallows the medicine.
If your cat has diarrhea, treatment should be accompanied by a special diet. So, for a while, milk and dairy products should be excluded from the diet. In addition, you should limit your intake of foods high in carbohydrates. Start feeding the cat after a day of fasting in small portions. Food should be easily digestible and low in fat. Feed your kitten three to four times a day, but a little bit. You can boil chicken white meat, also give the cat a broth. Include egg yolks and boiled rice, as well as baby puree in the menu.
In the event that your cat eats ready-made feeds, it is better to transfer it to animal feed with sensitive digestion. Once the diarrhea has passed, you can return to your normal diet.
If the cat has diarrhea, treatment can be accompanied by desoldering with a special decoction made from chamomile and St. John's wort, as well as oak bark. Such an infusion should be given to the kitten three times a day, five milliliters. Chamomile and St. John's wort have anti-inflammatory and healing effects, and oak bark has an astringent effect.
In the event that no improvement is observed within two days, diarrhea continues in the cat, treatment should be continued with the veterinarian. He will conduct special tests, studies, on the basis of which it will be possible to identify the cause of diarrhea, and, based on this, prescribe treatment. If diarrhea occurs as a result of food allergies or intolerance to any product, then you need to remove these products from the diet of the kitten.
Diarrhea is also possible due to fear or anxiety of a cat. In this case, she will calm down and everything will work out.
If the poisoning caused diarrhea in a kitten, treatment requires the use of specific antidotes in case diarrhea is a consequence of the use of toxic substances. In addition, diarrhea can occur when a cat has invasive diseases that are associated with worms and protozoa. Most often, diarrhea is caused by lamblia and isospores. In this case, diarrhea can be accompanied by mucous and bloody secretions.
If your cat is not vaccinated, then diarrhea can cause viral and bacterial diseases - it can be distemper or coronavirus. In the presence of an infectious disease, the cat rises in temperature, sometimes vomiting appears, not only diarrhea. In this case, do not hesitate, you should immediately contact your veterinarian. Otherwise, even death is possible .
Diarrhea can be caused by disruption of the digestive glands, as well as damage to the walls of the intestines and inflammation, possibly even neoplasms. In case of malnutrition, some breeds of cats may experience pancreatitis or inflammation of the pancreas.
The color and smell of feces, as well as the frequency of bowel movements, can identify the causes of diarrhea. In addition, you should pay attention to the general condition of the cat. Thus, you can find out whether the disease is localized in the large or small intestine.