Luna is very sick: Threw up about 30 times! (update #167: someone threw up!)

**Kirsten** · 03-30-2009, 12:07 PM

Poor Tanner! Yes, a biopsy is making sense...
But I'd figure that a cat with IBD has diarrhea also?

Kirsten

**emily_the_spoiled** · 03-30-2009, 12:14 PM

IBD can present in a number of different ways. For Tanner it was really really bad diarrhea. What was interesting was that once I took him off the commercial cat food he got better within a couple of weeks. I think it was the preservatives and dyes that contributed to him becoming so sick.

**Catty1** · 03-30-2009, 12:16 PM

YAAY!

Kirsten, now YOU get some sleep - and I hope your babies cuddle up and are YOUR nurses!

**krazyaboutkatz** · 03-31-2009, 01:00 AM

Kirsten, I'm so glad that Luna is doing much better and I hope that she continues to well.

I'm sorry to hear that you've caught a bad cold.

Please get the rest you need and take care. (((HUGS)))

Starr has IBD and colitis. He had a surgical biopsy and his symptoms were severe diarrhea. Some cats only have diarrhea, some vomit, and some poor cats can have both.

There are different types of IBD and the worst is like the Crohn's version in people. Luckily this is very rare in cats. Starr has the Eosinophilic IBD. Here's a good link about it:http://peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=1+1322&aid=304.

**orangemm** · 03-31-2009, 04:48 AM

Kirsten, no, Binky didn't have a biopsy; the vet examined him thoroughly and from that and his symptoms indicated that he might have it. He didn't have diarrhea, but he had a lot of very soft smelly poops, plus the regurgitation

He's done well on the Prilosec. Only one episode of vomiting and that could have been from him eating too fast, so I have to limit his portions and give him small frequent meals.

We are going to keep him on the i/d (50/50 with his regular food) since it seems to work.

So glad Luna isn't puking anymore!!

**Sonia59** · 03-31-2009, 05:21 AM

I am glad Luna seems better. Still crossing fingers that she fully recovers.

**astrid** · 03-31-2009, 12:51 PM

Great to know Luna's better, now I hope she recovers 100% and I hope you too get well soon.

Big hugs

**Kirsten** · 03-31-2009, 12:53 PM

Thank you for all the get well-wishes, and for the IBD info, orangemom and kak...

Here's a little update: She did not throw up this morning, but did not eat her food, and she laid down on her blanket before I left for work, which is an untypical behaviour for her, so I was a bit worried when I left. I even drove home during my lunch break to look after her, and to my relief, she had eaten her food meanwhile and did not throw up. But she looked under the weather and did not get up from her blanket when I came home. She was still lying there when I came home from work the late afternoon, and she seems to be a bit exhausted. But she was eating.

Sorry for being short again, but I'm still feeling the effects of the cold I got, and I'm just tired. I think I'll go to bed early today...

Kirsten