Cats / Dogs Vomiting and Diarrhea

Cats / Dogs Vomiting and Diarrhea can apply equally to either cats or dogs. I am going to particularize just on cats where vomiting, especially for house cats, is a daily occurrence.

So, if your cat vomits daily, that's no biggy. In fact, I remember when making a house call a few years ago, the owner locked up his eight cats in a bedroom. And, during my entire presentation, you could hear the sound of cats puking in the other room.

However, when your cat vomits and has acute diarrhea at the same time, that can be a problem. It could kill the pet. If you have an older cat like mine at nineteen years, you have the added problem of it having lost a huge amount of its kidney function. And, then, of course, with the acute vomiting and diarrhea, you naturally wonder if her time has come.

In fact, this last time, she was emaciated after almost a full week of vomiting and diarrhea, that we wondered whether or not to have her put to sleep. Based on wat the vet had told us a couple of years ago, we thought that her time was up. A really tough decision.

This time, there was blood in her stool. Not good!

What we did was, we went online to read up on several aspects of what was going on. My first concern was that this was a manifestation of her declining kidney function about which the vet had told us a couple of years ago that she would not survive longer than between six months and a year (that was two years ago).

So, we felt that we were on borrowed time.

What we determined is that if the kidney decline had any impact on the current situation, it would be extremely minor. Her vomiting and diarrhea would likely be something else. That was good... maybe.

Since she is purely a house cat, the likelihood of her picking up a bacteria or virus would be extremely remote. However, the explosive nature of the vomiting and the blood in her stool told us that it was bacteria and that it was violent.

So, here is what we decided to do:

Since she was diagnosed a couple of years ago with decining kidney function, we instantly put her on the same holistic kidney medication that I use. This, to improve the cells of her kidney walls. It has worked very well for both her and for me.

We put her on some very advanced vitamin supplements (the same ones my wife and I use) as well as some advanced glucosamine (that we use also) to help her with what is common in all pets, degenerative joints particularly in the hips.

Since she was vomiting and diarrhea to the point of having little or no nutrients entering her body through food that she couldn't keep down, we ground up the vitamins and other supplements and diluted them into her water so that she would take the nutrients she needed through her water just like intravenous.

No matter what, they must get their nutrients. And, they must maintain a healthy heart. And, since the supplements my wife gives me work for my heart, we know they will work for Amanda while we get her onto the road to recovery.

This became like a two-minute drill in football when we're down a field goal with two minutes left and I, the quarterback, have the ball. I guarantee, we're going to win this thing!

Then, because we determined that she must have developed a powerful bacteria that was causing this horrible situation (from which, according to all I read, she could have died), gave her a teaspoon of lactose-free yogurt.

We also have, through my wife, a specialized, very powerful but gentle antiseptic of which we put the tiniest amount on her tongue. This antiseptic was designed in our cure to wipe out most of the bacteria in her stomach. I appeared to work quite quickly. Then, with the yogurt, we were able to replace the bad and dead bacteria with good bacteria that the stomach needs to digest her food.

We also used a small amount of the antiseptic into and around her anal canal to help her cope with the raw skin formation that often accompanies acute diarrhea in humans as well as in pets.

The yogurt helped stabilize her stomach although she still had a tummy ache of massive proportions for yet another two days.

However, her stool solidified. And, the blood subsided.

Amanda is almost fully recovered. She is eating well. She has regained most of the weight she had lost. And, her declining kidney function does not appear to have caused the problem nor has it gotten worse (or better) as a result.

If your pet suffers from this aweful combination of vomiting and diarrhea, you might try this multipronged approach to helping them out.

As your pet ages, say, through their thirteenth year (the magic year for all small animals), take preventative measures with pet vitamins and, especially, kidney health supplements. Kidney failuire is the major cause of death amongst small animals... especially cats.

I hope that helps,
John (for Amanda the Cat)
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