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I found a kitten outside about 5 weeks old........ he eats and drinks water just fine but has bad Diarrhea. is there anything I can do until I can get him to a vet?? He is eating some rice. I dont know if giving him wet cat food was the problem or not. he was eating wet and dry cat foods.... I then changed him up to dry kitten food since he started the diarrhea. Then I switched to rice be cause its getting bad...... its just running outta the poor lil guy. PLEASE HELP!!

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How long do you have the kitten?
Did he have normal stools til he ate the wet fod?

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Reply to Terri Riba's Post: he has always has soft stools. I have had him for about 2 days. I tried giving him rice but that doesnt seem to work. he is still playing drinking water and eating .I am feeding him rice and dry KITTEN food now..... he has had only one bowl of the rice and kitten food so far.

Dear friend,

Get acidopholus tablets from a health store. Mix one in ten ounces of water and give him one dropper a day for 30 days. In the meantime mix the rice with the canned cat food.The dry may be to rough for him as he is a baby and he should really eat kitten food.

If the loose stoools do not clear upf rom the acidopholus than he probably has a parasite called coccidia.Many kittens are born with this. You can clear it up with flagyl but you can only get that from a vet.

Please keep in touch and let me know how he is doing.If you have more questions,I will be happy to help.

Very sincerely,

Terri

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Reply to Terri Riba's Post: Im sorry am I to understand that he may have this problem for 30 days?? If not how long until the medicine works?? what should I be looking for??

You should see normal stools after only four doses of the acidopholus but you need to give it for 30 days to build up the proper amount of good bacteria.

Edited by purrfectkitty on May 26 2006 at 11:03 PM

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Reply to Terri Riba's Post: Terri,
sorry to bother you again......... I was just wondering what type of dropper I have a 10 ml.
how much is too much?? or too little??
I know Im a pest with this but I dont wanna hurt the baby. whose name is Sneaky by the way. Im very thankful to you.
Tammie Of PA

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