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Adrienne & Molly (GA)

Adrienne & Molly (GA)

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It's Friday! I didn't increase today, see what happens today. Molly isn't pooping as much? Should I increase her Miralax? she's 1/4 tsp a day. She did poop a little yesterday but it was soft.
 
Adrienne & Molly said:
Yesterday
It's Friday! I didn't increase today, see what happens today. Molly isn't pooping as much? Should I increase her Miralax? she's 1/4 tsp a day. She did poop a little yesterday but it was soft.
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Hopefully she will poop more. There’s so much trial and error with Miralax. You could try a little more? Have you tried freeze dried pumpkin or psyllium husks? My cats won’t always eat well with those added. Of course the cat who doesn’t need it will think it’s just great!
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Hopefully she will poop more. There’s so much trial and error with Miralax. You could try a little more? Have you tried freeze dried pumpkin or psyllium husks? My cats won’t always eat well with those added. Of course the cat who doesn’t need it will think it’s just great!
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So Miralax isn't that great? I have given her pumpkin before I guess I could try again. There is a Tiki cat good with pumpkin and I think tuna? I wonder if that would be any good. She's good for a while and then she gets constipated again. where can you buy the psyllium husks?
 
Oh no. I am sorry. I didn’t mean Miralax is not great. It works well for some cats. Others don’t respond so well. I was really thinking that maybe you can use trial and error with your Miralax dosage or that you might consider adding in a pinch of fiber. It’s ALL trial and error with cat constipation - you just have to find what works for your kitty. I keep all of those things in my arsenal (Miralax, Lactulose, pumpkin, psyllium, and more.).
I apologize if I made it sound like I thought Miralax wasn’t good!
 
Suzanne & Darcy said:
Oh no. I am sorry. I didn’t mean Miralax is not great. It works well for some cats. Others don’t respond so well. I was really thinking that maybe you can use trial and error with your Miralax dosage or that you might consider adding in a pinch of fiber. It’s ALL trial and error with cat constipation - you just have to find what works for your kitty. I keep all of those things in my arsenal (Miralax, Lactulose, pumpkin, psyllium, and more.).
I apologize if I made it sound like I thought Miralax wasn’t good!
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Do you switch things up? I'm thinking the Miralax isn't working as good as it use to? What's the lactulose? I might try the Tiki cat but I looked at the food chart. It's not listed there
 
Adrienne & Molly said:
Do you switch things up? I'm thinking the Miralax isn't working as good as it use to? What's the lactulose? I might try the Tiki cat but I looked at the food chart. It's not listed there
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Lactulose is available through compounding pharmacies (with a vet Rx). They make it into a flavored liquid (I got chicken). It is technically a type of sugar, but it is not absorbed by the cat's body and therefore does not influence blood sugar. Quite a few people on this board use it for kitty constipation. My vet was very hesitant to prescribe it at first because she thought it would disturb his blood sugar. It did not. I wish we had started it earlier though. It seems to have a good taste. I put it in food and never had any problems with eating - that is good because it can be kind of sticky if you just syringe it in.

From Wedgewood Pharmacy:
Lactulose is a synthetic non-digestible disaccharide which is used to treat hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and chronic constipation in dogs and cats. Oral lactulose is very poorly absorbed and the majority of the drug remains in the colon where it is metabolized by the resident bacterial flora into short chain fatty acids. These short chain fatty acids acidify the colon contents and draw water and ammonia (NH3) from the blood into the colon. The net effect is to soften the stool and reduce blood ammonia levels by trapping and expelling ammonium ion in the feces.
 
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