Jazuela
12-17-2007, 02:59 PM
So my cat has the runs. Started when she had to take antibiotics for gingevitis. The gingevitis went away after only 2 days of the antibiotics, and she got the runs on the 2nd day, so I stopped giving her the meds thinking one caused the other.
Vet says "Oh well here have her take these." MORE antibiotics, I found out, except these are supposed to be a common med for cat diarrhea. Fine fine - except she refused to take them. I tried shoving them down her throat, tried crushing them and adding them to her wet food, tried hiding the pill in a piece of ham, tried mixing crushed pill powder with honey-water. No matter what I tried she'd spit and froth like a ZZ-Top beard, chin to floor.
So vet says, "Oh well hey try kaopectate." I look it up, turns out they meant they wanted me to use kaolin and petcin compound. Unfortunately, Kaopectate doesn't make their stuff out of kaolin and pectin anymore. They used to, hence their name. But now it's bismuth salycylate or however it's spelled. Which - cats REALLY can't stand. D'oh. Another med tossed in the trash.
So 2 weeks later and Jezebelly STILL has the runs and I'm starting to worry about a) her health and b) the occasional mess when her tail hits the box on her way out of it.
Vet says, "Hm. Alright try Immodium. .75 cc, twice a day." I ask, "Imodium AD?" she says no, just normal immodium, unflavored. So I go to three pharmacies, and discover there is no such thing as UNflavored liquid imodium, or its generic counterpart Iperamide. It comes in mint, or cherry mint. I figured, fine - if I'm gonna have to buy flavored and risk Jezebelly rejecting another med, at least I'll make this one cherry mint so *I* can tolerate it if I ever come down with the runs.
And whaddya know - she actually didn't froth it out.
As an FYI: .75 cc, of iperamide, which comes 1 mg. per 5 ml., is around 4 drops of the medicine. It's just under 1/5 teaspoon. Also, Imodium is Imodium AD. That's what "normal" Imodium IS. The AD stands for anti-diarrheal, and it doesn't come any other way besides their Advanced or Extra Strength or whatever. And that's AD too.
Vet says "Oh well here have her take these." MORE antibiotics, I found out, except these are supposed to be a common med for cat diarrhea. Fine fine - except she refused to take them. I tried shoving them down her throat, tried crushing them and adding them to her wet food, tried hiding the pill in a piece of ham, tried mixing crushed pill powder with honey-water. No matter what I tried she'd spit and froth like a ZZ-Top beard, chin to floor.
So vet says, "Oh well hey try kaopectate." I look it up, turns out they meant they wanted me to use kaolin and petcin compound. Unfortunately, Kaopectate doesn't make their stuff out of kaolin and pectin anymore. They used to, hence their name. But now it's bismuth salycylate or however it's spelled. Which - cats REALLY can't stand. D'oh. Another med tossed in the trash.
So 2 weeks later and Jezebelly STILL has the runs and I'm starting to worry about a) her health and b) the occasional mess when her tail hits the box on her way out of it.
Vet says, "Hm. Alright try Immodium. .75 cc, twice a day." I ask, "Imodium AD?" she says no, just normal immodium, unflavored. So I go to three pharmacies, and discover there is no such thing as UNflavored liquid imodium, or its generic counterpart Iperamide. It comes in mint, or cherry mint. I figured, fine - if I'm gonna have to buy flavored and risk Jezebelly rejecting another med, at least I'll make this one cherry mint so *I* can tolerate it if I ever come down with the runs.
And whaddya know - she actually didn't froth it out.
As an FYI: .75 cc, of iperamide, which comes 1 mg. per 5 ml., is around 4 drops of the medicine. It's just under 1/5 teaspoon. Also, Imodium is Imodium AD. That's what "normal" Imodium IS. The AD stands for anti-diarrheal, and it doesn't come any other way besides their Advanced or Extra Strength or whatever. And that's AD too.