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Q: What to do to help prevent a flare up for IBD diet,vitamins,propiatics?
anyone know?? i have light stomach cramps in the morning. for the past 10 days.. i talked to doctor and he said to take more of my medicine and if it gets worse to contact him.But should i take vitamins or probiatics?
thanx best regards

A: If you can afford it, buy Primal Defense probiotics by Garden of Life. I have seen them change the lifes of a dozen people with IBS. If you can’t afford those, get a minimum of 8 billion cells with at least 4 strains of probiotics. Double or triple up on doses for the first couple days to re-populate your intestine.
Also, eliminate dairy and wheat during the flare ups, or permanently.
Also, l-glutamin does miracles for IBS and IBD.

Q: raw food diet for my great dane with IBD?
she has extremely low protein levels, to the extent my regular vet is worried.

A: You should join a Yahoo Group that teaches the Barf Diet or the homecooked diet. They design the diet to meet the needs of an individual dog.

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/K9kitchen

Q: Raw food diet for cats with IBD?
My mother has a cat with IBD (Inflammatory bowel disease), and the poor thing is wasting away. He’s a large male cat who, according to the vets (and when he was healthy) was 16 pounds. He’s now a sad 9 pounds, and… he looks so sick.

I’m taking care of him while he’s on steroids because my mother is unable to give him his pills. I’ve been reading up a lot about IBD for cats, and it says a raw food diet with no grains is the best. But, my mom cannot be grinding up chickens in her little kitchens, and the internet ordered prepared foods are extremely expensive. Do you think if she went to a butcher, and she asked, he’d grind up chicken and rabbits for her? We’ve never been to a real butcher before, so we don’t know. We just want our little boy to get better. Thanks!

A: I feed a raw diet to 14 cats. And I “cured” out IBD cat with a raw diet.

I doubt you will find a butcher who will grind meat and bones for you. But you could consider using on of the mixes that you don’t use bone with and just add any ground meat.

Try this one.

www.felinefuture.com

My cats liked it when we tried it. But I prefer to grind my own chickens whole so I use the recipe off www.catinfo.org and www.catnutrition.org

Q: what is celiac disease? what is the diet to go with it? how does it work with gerd and diabetes and diverticul
i also have migraines and fibromyalgia and kidney disease and ibd. the last word is suppose to be diverticulitis in the question. i need to lose weight and am having a hard time getting these diets to work together and i’m just getting bigger and bigger even though i still exercise. i also suffer from a tilted pelvis and spinal stenosis and radicuopothy.

A: Celiac disease is an autoimmune intestinal disorder, whose specific trigger is gluten. There are several long term conditions that can develop if your Cd is untreated. Among them are Vitamin and mineral deficiencies, Iron anemia, nervous systom disorders, and lactose intolerance. Fibromyalgia is loosely linked to CD.

Unfortuantely, the only cure/treatment for CD is to live a gluten-free diet.

Q: Is there a pre-made (frozen) raw diet I can feed my ferrets?
I am wondering if changing my ferrets diet to a raw diet will help with my one ferret with his IBD. Can NOT have veggies/fruits in the raw pattys.

How do I get them to change over to the new food?

A: Unsure if anyone makes it for ferrets, but I can tell you of some that are made for dogs and cats. Bravo has a line of raw meats made with 100% meat from one animal and no other ingredient. This is their basics and their blend line. I know of chicken, turkey, lamb and beef. However, they are not balanced, which should make it ideal for use with ferrets. There are no added vitamins or minerals, so you would have to add in the vitamins they need, unless someone else makes a blend of vitamins for ferrets.

Nature’s Variety also has a line of frozen raw food and it is all balanced. You would have to check the guaranteed analysis to see if the protein content is suitable for ferrets. However, I’m not sure which line of their products don’t have added organic fruits and vegetables.

There are many other manufactures of frozen raw food-Stella and Chewy’s, Primal, and Northwest Natural’s, but I don’t know enough about their products to relate it to ferrets.

Q: Is anyone familiar with canine IBD inflammatory bowel disease?
My dashund was diagnosed with this disease I am wondering if anyone has any pointers to help give him the best and most comfortable life by treating this disease with diet and meds..Thanks Shannon

A: hi shanney, I have crohn’s disease (IBD in humans) and my bassett hound has colitis.

make sure your dog has regular check ups with the vet. he may need to be on prednisone for short periods of time. be sure he has lots of water to drink, as for diet…when he is flaring try chicken broth, maybe some noodles like in cambell chicken soup, freeze some gatoraid in an ice cube tray and then once it’s frozen, put 1 in his bowl(make sure he licks it til it’s gone–then give him another) and he will get his electrolytes that way, meat flavored baby food (Ike loves it), canned dog food, etc. ask the vet for information on what he can and can’t eat.

I truly feel for your pet as well as mine. Hope he can stay in remission. best of luck to you.

Q: Advice on a RAW diet for my kitten?
He has IBD and is almost 4 months. I’ve taken him to the vet numerous times and will again this friday. Already changed his diet as prescribed by the vet and is not working. Anyways!

I’ve already done a lot of reading so don’t “lecture” on readings. I want to know experiences. I will be cooking lightly the outside of the meat (already read that it’s not “recommended” but not taking that “potential” risk).

So please give me suggestions, recommendations and your experience of raw diet? Thanks :)

A: Be careful with cooking the outside of the meat, if you cook the bone it will be dangerous for your cat as it could splinter instead of being soft. I would consider the very minor risk of a potential bacterium to be much less risky then accidentally cooking the bone to the point where some could splinter. I’ve had my cats on raw for about a year now and haven’t had so much as a bit of diarrhea.
I mostly rely on chicken quarters and hearts/gizzards as the diet staples but I also feed the occasional neck and frozen/thaw mice.
Try not to get too frustrated if your kitten doesn’t eat it right away, it can take weeks for them to transition to eating meat and even longer to eat the bone. The easiest would be if you had a meat grinder to grind up the bone too. Ideally you would leave some meat in small chunks to give him some jaw exercise and then grind up the bone and organ.
Here’s the easiest recipe I found for cat food and it’s the one I use most of the time.

http://www.catnutrition.org/recipes.php

A raw diet has really been a lifesaver for my crew. I have a few adopted guys with issues, one with frequent FLUTD, one with food allergies, another one with an old Hit By Car related back problem. I used to be at the vet’s with one or another every couple months. I haven’t had a single allergy flare-up or urinary tract issue since switching to raw. The weird one is my dog with the back injury. She was on pain control meds on a nearly daily basis which she no longer needs. I suppose by some freak chance it may have just healed on its own about the same time I started feeding her raw, but, since it hadn’t healed in the previous two years I had her, I have my doubts. All I can figure is that maybe all the fresh cartilage and such she consumes with a raw diet may have helped. It’s nice not having to get that prescription refilled all the time.
Oh yeah, and all my chunky cats lost weight. Everyone’s actually an ideal weight now. We also go through a lot less cat litter as the poop is smaller and less frequent because there’s no byproducts being passed. I just about never smell the litter box anymore.

Q: Cats with IBD?
If you have a cat with IBD, what diet do you have them on? I have a picky eater. I just switched him over to D/D (venison) and he seems to really love it. I haven’t had a chance to see how well his tummy will respond yet. Anyone with an IBD cat, what has worked best for you?
He’s on meds which seem to be working wonders, just wanted to match the meds with a good long term diet.

A: I have a one year old who was diagnosed at 3 months old and her condition was complicated by a deformed intestine, part of which had to be removed. Best $1,800 I ever spent…and I mean that with my whole heart.
I tried everything on the market that’s supposed to be good for cats with IBD and her situation was complicated further because she was only able to eat formula until she was 16 weeks old. Everything else came back up or didn’t ‘go through’ right. The meds made it worse also.
After no success I started reading and took matters into my own hands. I give mine all natural, prepared foods now.
We use a lot of Gerber 2nd stage baby meats. I give her ‘adult’ chicken, turkey and beef(boiled) also. Several vegetables are good for things like iron, folic acid, and vitamins. She likes them steamed. Sometimes she gets a few noodles. We use white rice and a touch of yogurt periodically. I like to give her Pedialyte quite often just in case. We ‘do’ vitamins twice a week.
She’s been on this diet for months now…no meds, no problems. Her vet was amazed. She weighed about three ounces at five weeks old. She always looked sickly thin. Now she’s absolutely gorgeous at 16 pounds. Her coat shines, she’s soft and her eyes just glisten.
I hope your lil guy is feeling better. Adjusting to life with IBD can be tough on US…I can’t imagine what it must be like for THEM.

Q: When to put cat with IBD to sleep?
I know there’s no magic answer, but I can’t determine whether to put Sonny to sleep. He’s an 11-year-old orange tabby with Irritable Bowel Disorder (IBD). There’s no cure; basically he’s had diarrhea daily for almost 3 years. We’ve tried lots of things (not everything), but steroids, diet changes, antibiotics, etc. and nothing helps long term.

Lately he did really well with 9 Lives Tuna mixed with pumpkin – he actually had normal stools for the first time in years. But now he won’t eat that food anymore. His weight is down to 6.5 pounds (skin and bones) from original weight of 11.5 pounds.

For the past week he hasn’t felt well, and the IBD causes stomach pains before the diarrhea (and the diarrhea is painful too; if you’ve ever had it, you know). When I don’t feed him, he’s pain-free, but hungry and constantly begging for food/meowing/crying. It’s a vicious cycle. I have tried diet changes recently but they only add to the diarrhea.

He stopped playing with toys years ago.

A: Honestly, it is ur call. U will know when he has just had enough and is in pain. When u have a pet that is sick u have 2 make the difficult decision when enough is enough. It totally sucks and I feel 4 ur kitties problem and u. All I’m going 2 tell u is that u know ur cat and there will be a day when Sonny is tired of fighting. Good Luck and I am sorry

Q: Whats the best way to help prevent a FLARE-UP for IBD?
i have IBD and i feel a flare-up comeing on but im fighting it with diet rest and vitamins.. any other advice? anyhave IBD or IBS? please feel free fro advice?best regards

A: like you i watch my diet. trying to keep calm and not stressed, well as little as you can control anyway. like not asking all your grand-kids over or going to a house you are uncomfortable in. i try to find a calm place, (like by my waterfall) and sit and read or work puzzles i like.
just don’t take on anything you don’t feel like doing. pamper yourself.

Q: Homemade Diets for Dogs with IBD?
Can anyone give me some recipes for homemade diets for dogs with IBD?

A: I can’t recommend any diet, because I’m not completely familiar with that condition and I don’t know what would be good for them. I can, however, recommend a good book. Monica Segal writes books on how to prepare a diet for dogs with health problems. I have one of her books and it’s great.

If you don’t want to spend the money on the book I have a better free option. Go to this link, it’s a Yahoo Group by Monica Segal. Join the group and post a question asking what kind of diet would be good for a dog with IBD and she will be very helpful. She helped me with a diet change for our Great Dane with Wobbler’s.

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/K9Kitchen/

I highly recommend you join, she can help you a lot.

Here’s the link to her website where you can buy her books.

http://www.monicasegal.com/catalog/writings.php

Q: Please help me! Something’s wrong with my cat! The vet thinks she has IBD after getting her bloodwork back so.?
..he switched her food to Science Diet for IBD and then on Thursday he gave her a steroid shot. Every day since then, she’s been like a zombie. I mean, it’s scaring me to death because it’s like she’s not even here–like she is physically but it’s like her soul has been sucked out of her. She doesn’t play, just stares at me and sleeps a lot. She was just sitting in the chair staring at the wall for like 30 min. I went up to her and kneeled down and started talking to her and she just stared through me, like she didn’t see me. I thought she was dying! I started crying and picked her up and carried her in here and then she got up and went on the windowsill. WTF is wrong? The vet said steroids could make her tired, but is this normal? I am so worried about her please help me, please! Has anyone ever experienced this with their cat after steroid shot? It’s one shot to last 10 days.

A: OH I AM SO SORRY!! BUT UGH Science Diet is such junk, please look at the site below and really, don’t you think that canned food would be better for a kitty with a bowel problem? I had my 15 year old had it too.. I wish I knew then what I know now..ASK your VET what is the most important thing in that Science Diet food that you need to look for in a better Quality food. LESS FILLERS.. carbs are not good for cats, they need more protein ask the VET if protein is good for an IBD cat.. read up on the links below you may very well find a better food to help her bowels settle down I think dry is a bad thing don’t you? GOOD LUCK SEE LINKS below book mark them all and take time to read them when you can help your baby kitty!! they show carbs and protein in all the foods you can buy.. GOD BLESS

Q: I’m thinking about a raw diet for my kitten?
I’ve been reading around about raw diets for cats who have IBD. I probably will cook the outside of meats rather than being totally raw. Anyways, if I do stick to “raw” food, can I store them in glass jars like the canning jars in the freezer?* Also… is there a reputable site where they list recipes for a homemade cooked diet for cat?

* I’ve never froze food in glass jars before and I’m not an advocate of storing certain foods in plastic containers. Any advice or suggestions?

Thanks :)
I ask about sites for homemade “cooked” diets because there are a lot about raw diets, and the cooked sites I’ve found have some if-y ingredients.

A: Remember to give your kitten a suplement Vitamin tablet

Q: Alternative Hypoallergenic (dry) diet other than Royal Canin?
My cat has IBD. I feed him a supplemented raw diet and now he doesn’t have diarrhea. However I’ll be leaving him with my husband for about a month and he works long hours. My cat is 5 months old and I want him to be able to get enough nutrience, even if it is from dry.

I’ve tried the Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Hypoallergenic HP 23 before I switched him to a raw diet, but this dry formula didn’t help his diarrhea. I just called the vet clinic and the receptionist suggests Medi-Cal Hypoallergenic. I know that Medi-cal and Royal Canin are from the same line of company.

I don’t want to risk him having diarrhea, but I don’t want to risk him not getting enough food and nutrience.

**When he did have diarrhea, he was healthy and was growing a pound and more a month and was active.

Any other suggestions??? Thanks.
I’m not looking for holistic brand food. I’ve already tried Merricks and others of the same quality. He gets diarrhea from these. I need a dry diet that is hypoallergenic :)
He works LONG hours. We talked about this problem, and the cat would only get 2 meals a day. I feed him 4 meals a day :)

And I’ve already made enough food to last for a long time.

A: As you know I feed raw, and I only feed 2 times a day. Your cat will be fine. He will get plently of nutrients from 2 meals a day. Just up the ammount you feed 2 times a day.

I think it would be a very cruel decision for you to put a FINALLY healthy IBD cat back onto the very food that caused his IBD in the first place. **Dry food is the cause of his IBD.** Raw food, what nature intended, is the cure.

Why would you make him suffer again by putting him back on raw?

Just feed him larger portions 2 times a day and he will be fine. He will not be fine if you put him back on a dry hypoallergenic food because IBD is not an allergy. I’m pretty sure that was already proven when you tried every other food out there and the only thing that works for your cat is a raw diet.

Don’t fix it if it isn’t broken. Keep your cat on raw.

Q: IBD (Irritable Bowel Disorder)?
I have recently been diagnosed with IBD (Irritable Bowel Disorder). I would like to know any tips and suggestions on how to eat, or any information about this disorder. Any help is appreciated. If you have any diet plans (tips) i would like to know. Thanks .

A: I had the same problem for years and found out I can’t eat a lot of wheat or dairy. Make a journal of what you eat and note when it is triggered. May be that will help.

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