Cat diagnosed with IBD
Hi All,
My 10yo orange boy was just diagnosed with IBD a few weeks ago. Ive had him since he was 3 months old, and he’s always had intermittent vomiting (sometimes 3x a week, then goes months without it). I had a feeling he had IBD and my vet initially said let’s just watch him since he’s otherwise fine, then this past annual visit said let’s do the ultrasound. He had some thickening of his stomach and bowels, and underwent the biopsy surgery where they took five separate biopsies and confirmed eosinophilic IBD, no lymphoma. He’s also a urinary cat (has a blockage when he was 2.5) and so now is on the RC urinary and hydrolyzed combo dry food, and per vet recommendations we gave up his urinary wet food in place for the RC PR diet. He’s had no vomiting since his surgery and is on week 1 of prednisolone (it’s a compounded treat). So far, he doesn’t eat the treat normally and isn’t a big fan of pill pockets but I went ahead and put some Fortiflora on the pill pockets and break the treat up into two and give him three pill pockets w his dinner (one empty and two w treat) and he eats it typically — today he didn’t eat one of the pill pockets and I attempted to pill him and wasn’t successful, but then I just dunked the pill pockets in Fortiflora and he ate it and forgot the attempted pilling earlier.
I’m a bit nervous about continuing to pill him longterm bc while he’s very food motivated I can see him catching on (and we’re only in week 1). Any success stories of just dietary changes out here? He has never had diarrhea, he sometimes has more constipation/thick stools but again no changes throughout his life. He weighs 15.5lbs, this is his baseline. Eats everything and again the vomiting over years is what made me proceed with diagnostics. Thanks!!