06-11-2008, 10:36 PM
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Re: Help 6 month old kitten with diarrhea
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Originally Posted by cindyt812
Excellent - sorry for asking but in my experience you wouldn't beleive the amount of people that give roast chicken..thinking it's a good optional substitue.....lol
Feeding Chicken & Rice is a great way of bringing your kitten back to a very basic nutriional intake, (as it helps to rid the body from manufactured toxins which, like it or not are in every food 'stuffs' that they consume) however, you must also consider the fact that the chicken contains a disproportionate amount of water and, in the same way that if we drank 80% water then ate just 20% of solid our stools would also be very runny...
The advice from silverhorse is good advice in my opinion, as the dehydrated make up of dry foods will help (at least in some way) to absorb the excess water within your kittens digestive tract. Of course it goes without saying that with clean fresh water being avalble your kitten will be able to re-hydrate at a speed that suits them.
With your original post on the vets proceedures, these can knock our pets sideways and we should never under estimate our pets reaction to these in the same way that different people react in different ways to aliments.
What were you feeding your kitten prior to this and was everything ok then... sorry to go on but it helps to have all of the info :-)
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where are you getting your facts? animals that have diarrhea usually become dehydrated and have difficulties braking down foods in the tum and absorbing them, the excess acid causes upset and the lining of the gut can't absorb it so it kicks it all out in liquid form. pets should be fed a wet diet when having bowel problems, not a dry. the dry can actually make it worse in some cases. the easier it is to digest the better. if it's full of cereals and in a solid rough forum then it's going to make the tum do more work than it should have to.  the problem isn't in the stomach its in the intestines and by the time dry food reaches the intestines its in liquid not solid form so it wouldn't be 'absorbing' anything if anything it would be swelling the tract and making it more inflamed.
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