From:
"stonearch2001"
Date: 2011-11-09 15:12:19 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Advice for IBD?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi All!
I'm looking for a little advice on what food I might want to try for my 6-year-old MF girl (Lily). Lily has basically had IBD for her whole life. The kind where her stools are explosive and very much like liquid. Occasionally seedy. However, she's been otherwise HEALTHY her whole live...energetic, beautiful coat, maintains a good weight, etc.
Historically, we fed her regular TF before our vet suggested switching to TF T-V-L. The switch seemed to help for a little while, but after some time she went back to pretty yucky stools. We've just kept on with the T-V-L and considered it "normal for her" since she's in all other ways healthy.
A couple months ago, we were unable to find any T-V-L on the market so I bought a bag of the regular TF (Performance? Maintenance? can't remember what they call it). She seemed to actually improve on it, but when that ran out I could only find T-V-L again so we've switched back to that. She's started grinding her teeth when she eats and losing weight, and her stools are pretty bad again. I'm thinking it's time to switch food again.
Would you suggest switching back to TF regular, since she seemed to respond well to that recently? Or should I try switching to something else? I'd like to avoid more extreme treatment like Pred if she's not needing it, but feel free to share your thoughts.
Jillian
PS - I posted yesterday about the passing of our sweetheart Lavender on the FML. It was titled "Fatal Food Allergy?" I'm not a vet, but since I've been mulling it over, I'm wondering if the reaction she had to her distemper vaccine 2 months ago "set her up" for a very serious reaction/food allergy to whatever was in the human-food she licked. It was definitely not a "normal" reaction, so I suspect the distemper vac played a roll. Several people pointed out that the onion in the human food is listed as toxic to pets. From the info I found, onion would cause anemia, which would probably have shown up as a problem over the course of hours or days, rather than the literally instant anaphylactic shock that Lavender experienced. I'll probably never know what ingredient triggered that reaction, but I still think that it wasn't JUST that human food, but that the distemper vac reaction played a big roll. I bet I could have let 100 ferrets sample that human food and not have had a problem like hers...heartbreaking any way you look at it, though.
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