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Hi,
I live in the UK.
My elderly Siamese cat (he's 14 and a half) has been vaguely diagnosed with IBD, I say vaguely because after £4,000 worth of tests and having him be overnight at the pet hospital for 3 nights, they still couldn't give me a definite answer. They told me that his comstant vomiting and diarrhoea are 90% likely to be IBD so I'm following their advice. He's currently taking Omeprazole for his vomiting which does help but the diarrhoea is still really bad.
I have tried dried hypoallergenic food, it didn't change anything. I've tried fresh food from a very expensive company, that also didn't work. He's also been on steroids which did nothing. This has been going on for at least 4 years now. I've read so much conflicting information everywhere about this issue (some pages say he can't eat dry food and some people swear by it!). He's currently back on regular brand cat food and has gone from 3.5kg (which wasn't a good weight in the first place) to 3.2kg which is very skinny, I can literally see his bones.
He wants to eat, he's always demolishing bowls of food but it just won't stay down.
I'm absolutely tearing my hair out here and I've done an insane amount of Googling and people are saying 'give them digestable carbs but not too much' 'give them healthy fats but not too much' 'give them chelated vitamins and certain supplements' - I cannot honestly understand this stuff, I also don't have endless money, I just want to help my cat and in tears here writing this. I just need some help. Please.
I live in the UK.
My elderly Siamese cat (he's 14 and a half) has been vaguely diagnosed with IBD, I say vaguely because after £4,000 worth of tests and having him be overnight at the pet hospital for 3 nights, they still couldn't give me a definite answer. They told me that his comstant vomiting and diarrhoea are 90% likely to be IBD so I'm following their advice. He's currently taking Omeprazole for his vomiting which does help but the diarrhoea is still really bad.
I have tried dried hypoallergenic food, it didn't change anything. I've tried fresh food from a very expensive company, that also didn't work. He's also been on steroids which did nothing. This has been going on for at least 4 years now. I've read so much conflicting information everywhere about this issue (some pages say he can't eat dry food and some people swear by it!). He's currently back on regular brand cat food and has gone from 3.5kg (which wasn't a good weight in the first place) to 3.2kg which is very skinny, I can literally see his bones.
He wants to eat, he's always demolishing bowls of food but it just won't stay down.
I'm absolutely tearing my hair out here and I've done an insane amount of Googling and people are saying 'give them digestable carbs but not too much' 'give them healthy fats but not too much' 'give them chelated vitamins and certain supplements' - I cannot honestly understand this stuff, I also don't have endless money, I just want to help my cat and in tears here writing this. I just need some help. Please.