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Originally Posted by CptJSparrow  Hi nanajoy,
Thanks for your reply, prayers and suggestions.
Our vet did give us some probiotics and we do plan to buy some to add to his food once we put him back on regular food. We decided to forgo it last time because the Life Protection formula had pre and probiotics. But we will now include it.
I found Proviable-KP when I searched for Nutramax paste. Is that what you are referring to? It doesn't appear to need a prescription. Is that correct? Is that used for an occasional help to fix soft stool issue? DiaGel also looks to do the same. Do you use both or have you had success with different product under different circumstances?
Any thoughts on food? Have you used Halo or Merrick?
Thanks again! |
We have a vet at our home in Florida, and one in upstate NY when we visit all of our kids. Unfortunately, for the first two years of his life our parti, Tyrone, had seemingly endless bouts of colitis, and the road trips triggered his problems. Our home vet always administered diagel along with any other prescription meds he deemed necessary, and he approved it for our first aid kit...cheaper on Amazon, btw. Tyrone does not like it, but it turns around an attack and settles his tummy fast. We have not had to use it for nearly two years now, but always have it on hand.
When he had an attack in NY, the vet there did not use diagel, but gave us the Proviable paste, which also comes with powdered capsules as a followup. When she gave them to us, he used the paste for several days, then had the capsules sprinkled over his food until he finished the packet. Now that he has stopped having as many incidents, we give him one or two days of the measured paste doses if his stool gets soft. (He still tends to have a sensitive stomach, especially when we have guests or his routine is interrupted. He enjoyed the taste, doesn't fight licking it from a spoon, and it works to firm his stool within a day or two. We also get it on Amazon, and when we checked whether or not our home vet approved it on a preventative basis once we saw a softening of his stools, he was fine with it.