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Hi, my boy is 12 years old and except for diabetes in remission and 2 pounds overweight, he’s healthy as far as we know. He takes Jackson Galaxy Complete Cat Probiotics every other day and 1-TDC every other day for his oral health (he had 11 teeth removed last year due to resorption and started these after surgery).
Over the past month, his stools started getting soft. Most were formed, but some softer, wetter. For the past 2 weeks, they’ve all turned pancake batter soft. We had scheduled a vet appointment, but I thought the situation was getting worse when I noticed his anus getting red and irritated (no blood). Not sure if it was from the wet stool or my rubbing (even though I thought I was gentle) or something worse. We scheduled an appointment with another vet (same office, but not his regular one) for an ASAP appointment and had our visit last Friday. They did an exam, did a proper sanitary trim, put some antifungal ointment on, and took our stool sample for testing.
In the meantime, I started him on Jarrow Saccharomyces Boulardii + MOS last Sunday. Started with ¼ capsule and raised the dosage to ½ capsule twice a day. After taking that for 2 days, his stools were mostly formed, but as the week has progressed, they are back to some formed, some unformed. I’ll mention that he’s still going his usual twice a day so it’s not diarrhea, just unformed. I’ve started to keep a diary of his foods and the corresponding movement to see if I can see a correlation with any food in particular. He eats a variety of proteins, only wet or freeze dried that are low, low carb and low fat with no fillers. I’m going to start him on only one protein for a week or so to see if that maybe helps.
Heard back from the vet today and was told that the PCR came back negative for everything. She wants to start him on a 5 day dose of Metronidazole. I’m always cautious to start him on medicines and would like to treat the issue and not just the symptoms. Apologies for the length, but any advice would be welcome.
Over the past month, his stools started getting soft. Most were formed, but some softer, wetter. For the past 2 weeks, they’ve all turned pancake batter soft. We had scheduled a vet appointment, but I thought the situation was getting worse when I noticed his anus getting red and irritated (no blood). Not sure if it was from the wet stool or my rubbing (even though I thought I was gentle) or something worse. We scheduled an appointment with another vet (same office, but not his regular one) for an ASAP appointment and had our visit last Friday. They did an exam, did a proper sanitary trim, put some antifungal ointment on, and took our stool sample for testing.
In the meantime, I started him on Jarrow Saccharomyces Boulardii + MOS last Sunday. Started with ¼ capsule and raised the dosage to ½ capsule twice a day. After taking that for 2 days, his stools were mostly formed, but as the week has progressed, they are back to some formed, some unformed. I’ll mention that he’s still going his usual twice a day so it’s not diarrhea, just unformed. I’ve started to keep a diary of his foods and the corresponding movement to see if I can see a correlation with any food in particular. He eats a variety of proteins, only wet or freeze dried that are low, low carb and low fat with no fillers. I’m going to start him on only one protein for a week or so to see if that maybe helps.
Heard back from the vet today and was told that the PCR came back negative for everything. She wants to start him on a 5 day dose of Metronidazole. I’m always cautious to start him on medicines and would like to treat the issue and not just the symptoms. Apologies for the length, but any advice would be welcome.