Persistent runny poo (sorry!)

[Marcine]

Cat/kitten is 6 months old. She has always seemed to have a sensitive stomach and gocat/wiskas gave her the runs. We switched her to a high meat content food (wet and dry) and things improved on the poo front.

After spaying at 4 months she developed giardia and was very ill. Vet prescribed a sensitive stomach food (very expensive) so once recovered we slowly switched back to her normal food. However since then all poos have been very runny.

What should we do? Go back to the prescribed food? Try a new brand? Other than the poo issue she seems very healthy.

Does her food contain cereals? Maize etc?.

The prescription food contained maize, her normal dry food is grain free.

Very odd.

I'd go back to the vets first, just to rule out underlying infection.

I would like to avoid going back to the vets as ours costs a fortune! We could go back to the prescription food if necessary. Do you know what kind of an infection could cause this?

What food are you giving and what was the prescription one?

Prescription one was Hills ID. She's now just having applaws dry kitten food but previously she also ate some butchers choice tinned food, but preferred the dry.

Did your vet tell you to change the food back to the old stuff. Could you ring them for advice? You can probably buy the hills stuff cheaper online e.g. from zooplus or bitiba

My kitten had really persistent stomach problems. Not so much diarrhoea, as small but persistent amounts of blood in her poo. We tried her on about four different sensitive/hypoallergenic diets that got increasingly expensive, and none of them fixed it. Eventually, faced with having to take about a pint of blood from her to test for allergies, we decided to try her on a diet of 100% fresh chicken. And so far, about a month in, it seems to have worked. We also give her a supplement to make sure she gets taurine etc. And it's actually marginally cheaper, and certainly easier, than getting specialist diets from the vet/online. Maybe worth a go?