Hey,
My cat started having rectal bleeding since he was 5 months old. The blood was always bright red, and came along with mucus. He is a Scottish Fold with (very) long hair.
Over the last year we’ve run all the tests possible on him: allergies, parasites, ultrasoubd, bloodwork, possible diseases. Nothing shows up. We’ve also tried more diets than I can count. So we’ve concluded that it must be IBD.
What has helped?
• Eating Anallergenic food from Royal Canin.
• Cutting his hair (his stool was full of a lot of hair before)
Nowadays he has a little mucus at the end when passing stool (very small amount which wouldn’t be noticeable if you didn’t properly analyze the stool) and sometimes has a small amount drop of blood present either around his anus or at the very end of the stool. Again, this wouldn’t be noticeable many times unless you looked at the stool carefully with a flashlight. I’d say a small amount of blood happens maybe once a week or so.
larger amounts of bleeding when passing stool are very rare. Maybe once in a couple of months. Usually it’s barely visible.
He is otherwise OK. Takes no medication, but we did give him metronidazole back when he had a “crisis” and had large amounts of blood in his stool.
Based on other owner’s experience is there anything else we can do for him? And is the small amount of bleeding problematic in the long run, or should we only get worried if it starts coming in larger quantities again?
My cat started having rectal bleeding since he was 5 months old. The blood was always bright red, and came along with mucus. He is a Scottish Fold with (very) long hair.
Over the last year we’ve run all the tests possible on him: allergies, parasites, ultrasoubd, bloodwork, possible diseases. Nothing shows up. We’ve also tried more diets than I can count. So we’ve concluded that it must be IBD.
What has helped?
• Eating Anallergenic food from Royal Canin.
• Cutting his hair (his stool was full of a lot of hair before)
Nowadays he has a little mucus at the end when passing stool (very small amount which wouldn’t be noticeable if you didn’t properly analyze the stool) and sometimes has a small amount drop of blood present either around his anus or at the very end of the stool. Again, this wouldn’t be noticeable many times unless you looked at the stool carefully with a flashlight. I’d say a small amount of blood happens maybe once a week or so.
larger amounts of bleeding when passing stool are very rare. Maybe once in a couple of months. Usually it’s barely visible.
He is otherwise OK. Takes no medication, but we did give him metronidazole back when he had a “crisis” and had large amounts of blood in his stool.
Based on other owner’s experience is there anything else we can do for him? And is the small amount of bleeding problematic in the long run, or should we only get worried if it starts coming in larger quantities again?