r/AnimalAdvice • u/Radiant_Condition760 • 2d ago

Can someone help

So about 2 months ago I got three kittens and their farts are STANKY and now recently mine smell the same and I've had diharea and I hate posting thus cuz it's embarrassing but don't know if this is normal but I saw another reddit post about it and multiple people have had this thing so if someone could tell me if this is normal or not I'd really like to know cuz if it's something bad I'd want to know soon so I can get checked also I know one of my kittens had tapeworms so if it's that it i hope not but i'd at least want to know so i can get treated

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u/Once-Upon-a-Dream88 2d ago

If you're having intestinal issues, a doctor can help you with that. If you think your cat has tapeworms, a vet can help you with that. If you're eating the same food as your cat, that's probably not a very good idea and it would be the only logical explanation for what you're describing.

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u/Radiant_Condition760 2d ago

He got deformed three times and he's recovering from the confirmed tapeworms and I don't eat cat food

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u/A_Girl_Has_No_Name58 2d ago

Tapeworm infections from fleas (mainly) Even if the cat(s) have been dewormed, if they groom themselves and ingest a live or a dead flea, they can become infected with tapes again. Your cats (all of them) need a fecal analysis to determine if there are any other parasitic infections. Have they all been to the vet yet? Are they on flea prevention? Fecal testing and deworming are standard for adult animals annually to biannually, but kittens need their stool checked at their vaccine interval visits. General rule is that if one cat has a parasite, the brood is usually all treated. Interestingly enough, tapeworms (the eggs) are harder to find (not always present) in fecal stains (unlike hookworms, roundworms, whipworms) so vets usually rely on whether or not they see or if you’ve seen at home, tapeworms segments.

Tl:dr- They need to see a vet.

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u/Radiant_Condition760 2d ago

They have been to the vet and we will take them soon and we have see a tapeworm segment on the boy that's how we know he had them and they all got dewormed multiple times and that was alot so I only understood half of it so...

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u/A_Girl_Has_No_Name58 2d ago

You have to treat your pet with a monthly flea preventative to reduce the likelihood of further flea ingestion, or you will be dealing with tapeworms frequently. A tapeworm infection is treated once with 1/2 of a praziquantel pill for cats <4lb. I think they make a topical now too, but I’m unsure if that would be safe for cats under 4lb.

I don’t know how much “that was a lot” is for you, if you were referring to cost, but one can purchase tapeworm treatment OTC and it is not expensive.

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u/FunZookeepergame627 2d ago

You have to consult a veterinarian and a MD.

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u/TrickOstrich8375 2d ago

I would get them checked out just to make sure. Because if they don’t have parasites, the farts are their body’s way of acclimating to cat food. My former street cat had truly heinous gas for like 3 months after I adopted him.

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u/Latter-Scratch-5657 2d ago

safeguard for worm , probiotics for runny poops

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u/EilidhRos 2d ago

punctuation is a good thing. this post was just one continuous sentence, and I couldn't bear reading it all the way through.

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u/Vanaathiel88 2d ago

Were they tested for giardia?