Parenting-Furkids
Cats => Caring For Your Cat => IBD => Topic started by: DeeDee on February 03, 2015, 03:41:50 PM
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I have no clue in heck how I got to this link, but the WTF moment made me start reading it. Then I thought about pets with digestive problems and started wondering if Fecal Transplants would help them as well.
Fecal transplants relieve painful colitis, may someday treat obesity:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150122-fecal-transplants-relieve-painful-colitis-may-someday-treat-obesity.ece
The disease is notoriously hard to treat, but fecal transplants can cure more than 90 percent of patients within a few days, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013.
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Well, if you're doing it the "home-made" way . . . I can only imagine the experience of trying to give a cat an enema. funny2
To answer your question on a more serious note, I don't see why it wouldn't be an option worth trying.
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This information was in the latest IBDKitties newsletter:
I want to encourage those of you who have pets, cats or dogs, that are having gastric and GI problems to try a fecal transplant through Animal Biome. It’s being used a lot with the kitties in the group and having GREAT results. http://www.ibdkitties.net/donate/animalbiome/
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