Treat Cat Diarrhea With Home Remedies

Cat diarrhea can be prevented by feeding a species appropriate diet, that mimics what a cat eats in nature.

Feline diet is best a grainfree, canned, high quality and high protein food or a quality raw food diet. Dry food or kibbles should be avoided.

• Before you treat at home
• Alternative teatments
• Home Remedies
• Exclude These Causes

Before giving a Home remedy

A proper diagnosis is crucial, because you need to know what causes the problem. A home remedy for cat diarrhea might not work, if the cause is one or more of the above listed.

Never ever give your cat an over-the-counter antidiarrheal product. It can be toxic to her! Motility regulators are used only occasionally and should only be prescribed by your veterinarian to avoid serious side effects.

Usually your vet will give an antibiotic or in some cases steroids have a satisfying effect.

Always ask first your vet, if you can give any home remedy to your feline companion! Some remedies might interact with prescribed medication, so make sure you can go ahead.

Alternatives to cure Feline diarrhea

Chronic cases of cat diarrhea can also be treated very effectively with veterinary acupuncture or classic homoeopathy. Not to mention it here as well: you need first to exclude with the help of your vet any underlying causes!

Home remedies that can be tried to treat Cat diarrhea

Two things turned out to be quite effective for treating feline diarrhea at home:

• Pumpkin in cooked or canned form: It is a fibre matrix that sometimes helps to slow down gut peristalsis and with that diarrhea.
• Active culture yoghurt: This acts as a probiotic. Use plain or vanilla flavoured yoghurt with active cultures, like lactobacillus and acidophilus. This can be given as a supplement.

Exclude first these Causes of Feline diarrhea

A diarrhea problem lasting over 12 hours in young kittens or senior cat or over 24 hours in adult cats needs to be checked and treated by your vet to exclude:

• Cat worms and other intestinal parasites
• Pancreatitis (this can be serious)
• Irritable bowel disease (fairly common)
• Infectious diseases caused by viruses and/or bacteria
• Food allergy

Probiotics for Cats

Probiotics are safe and often very effective when your cat has an onset of acute diarrhea. You can get them from your vet, a drug store or even a healthfood store.

Probiotics come in form of a powder or paste. Powder can be mixed into your cat's food, but a lot of felines are fussy eaters and refuse 'strange' tastes immediately.

Therefore, a paste is much more convenient to dose, because you simply squirt it directly into your cat's mouth. This way you can be sure, she got it.

A probiotic just replaces the normal 'good' gut bacteria which should be there anyway. On the other side it weeds out pathogen microbes that cause the diarrhea.