Jezebel went to the vet on Monday this week (April 5). The doctor said she had an overgrowth of bacteria in her intestines, which was causing the diarrhea. So, that is better news than we'd feared. We put her on some antibiotics, and the diarrhea went away pretty much instantly.
She is also a very hard cat to give a pill. She stuck her sharpest claw deeply into my palm on Tuesday night. I called the vet to let him know she was doing better, and asked for advice on how to handle her craziness when giving medicine. He said to just stop the antibiotics. Phew!
But we may have to start giving her a liquid supplement every day to keep everything moving through her guts more easily. I will probably need some training on how to control her. She is great with the insulin, but she is vicious when you try to put something in her mouth.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Jezebel's Situation
We took Jezebel in for an ultrasound on March 25th. We knew she was having some issues with her digestive system because she was having gigantic poop and she seemed to be feeling lethargic and sluggish.
The ultrasound showed that her internal organs all looked good, which was good news, but her lymph nodes were slightly enlarged and her intestinal walls were thicker than normal. Based on the ultrasound, Dr. Phillips said that she likely has either Inflammatory Bowel Disease or lymphoma, and possibly a condition called mega colon. The treatment for IBD and lymphoma is pretty much the same, unless you want to do radiation and more aggressive cancer treatments.
On Friday night, April 2, we noticed that one of the cats had diarrhea. On Saturday, we saw it again, but we still weren't sure who it was. Then, on Sunday morning, we saw red blood in the diarrhea, so we had to figure out who it was. We separated the cats, and figured out that it was Jezebel. So she had gone from having large, hard stools to diarrhea in the span of a week or so. Today, she's had diarrhea 4 times so far, and 3 of them had blood that I could see.
About 3 or 4 weeks ago, we started feeding her a couple of new canned foods from Royal Canin called Instinctive and Intense Beauty. Both had high protein and the Intense Beauty has higher fat. I'm not sure if the diet is related to the diarrhea. We were excited to feed it to her because she was eating it much better than anything else we'd tried in a long time, and she seemed to be holding on to her weight.
The other weird thing is that she seems to be feeling a little bit better over the last few days. Maybe just not being constipated is an improvement, but the blood in the stool is very troubling.
I'm going to call the vet first thing in the morning to see what we can do, but we're very worried about Jezebel and her insides. I don't want her to be hurting.
The ultrasound showed that her internal organs all looked good, which was good news, but her lymph nodes were slightly enlarged and her intestinal walls were thicker than normal. Based on the ultrasound, Dr. Phillips said that she likely has either Inflammatory Bowel Disease or lymphoma, and possibly a condition called mega colon. The treatment for IBD and lymphoma is pretty much the same, unless you want to do radiation and more aggressive cancer treatments.
On Friday night, April 2, we noticed that one of the cats had diarrhea. On Saturday, we saw it again, but we still weren't sure who it was. Then, on Sunday morning, we saw red blood in the diarrhea, so we had to figure out who it was. We separated the cats, and figured out that it was Jezebel. So she had gone from having large, hard stools to diarrhea in the span of a week or so. Today, she's had diarrhea 4 times so far, and 3 of them had blood that I could see.
About 3 or 4 weeks ago, we started feeding her a couple of new canned foods from Royal Canin called Instinctive and Intense Beauty. Both had high protein and the Intense Beauty has higher fat. I'm not sure if the diet is related to the diarrhea. We were excited to feed it to her because she was eating it much better than anything else we'd tried in a long time, and she seemed to be holding on to her weight.
The other weird thing is that she seems to be feeling a little bit better over the last few days. Maybe just not being constipated is an improvement, but the blood in the stool is very troubling.
I'm going to call the vet first thing in the morning to see what we can do, but we're very worried about Jezebel and her insides. I don't want her to be hurting.
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