Need Kitten Experts, Please? Can I use Hemorrhoidal wipes on painful swollen kitten butt?

[MysteryChicken]

If I were you, I'd see how things settle down with just her kitten food and water - maybe adding probiotics and dewormer later if you're able to get it. Sounds like this kitten's been through a lot recently! You're doing a good thing taking care of her!

Thanks, we do what we can to keep our animals healthy, & happy.

I did forget to mention. After she had that big hard poo yesterday, I gave her some coconut oil to slicken her insides abit, & it worked. An hour after giving her the coconut oil, she had a normal softer poo.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Worms aren't a common problem with kittens unless you're not keeping them properly. I've had cats for 40 years, and I've had a lot of them. I've had cats/kittens with worms once.

Call the vet. Make an appointment. In the meantime, use cool water and a soft cloth to keep her clean. What did the stool look like?

At six weeks old, she should be fine on wet and dry kitten food. She shouldn't need any special formula.

A basic petroleum jelly might help her. Try to get plain with no additives or scents. I hope it does.

Get rid of the worms ASAP. If you have other animals around with worms, get them dewormed too. Make sure you don't just get some medicine without knowing what kind of worms she has.

Let us know if she has a normal bowel movement and we can hope it was a one time thing.

We've raised kittens for many years. Worms have been common with our kittens, & we dewormed all our animals regularly.

Money is abit tight right now, but I'll do some calculating, & see if I can get the dewormer sooner.

We can't afford a trip to the vet's right now.

The kitten was from a stray mother cat, which most likely passed the worms to her kittens.

 

[MysteryChicken]

She just had a normal soft poo, still gonna keep an eye on her though.

 

[MysteryChicken]

In an ideal world, you would take a stool sample to a vet and have them test it for worms - there are lots of different worms that a kitten could have, each of which require a different dewormer.

In a less than ideal world? Pyrantel pamoate (sold for cattle, etc at the feed store) is a fairly standard dewormer that covers most of your common roundworms and hookworms. I can calculate a dosage for you if that is something you can get.

I just looked at the product, & it says it's for pinworms.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I weighed the kitten, she's 1lbs 8oz.

 

[lysmandor]

I just looked at the product, & it says it's for pinworms.

I believe it does all of the above - sorry, don't have my parasitology textbook next to me at the moment, but I know it definitely covers roundworms and hookworms in dogs and cats. What concentration of pyrantel do you have? If it's 50mg/ml, you can do a ml for every 10 lbs. So for a 1.5 lb kitten, 0.15ml.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I believe it does all of the above - sorry, don't have my parasitology textbook next to me at the moment, but I know it definitely covers roundworms and hookworms in dogs and cats. What concentration of pyrantel do you have? If it's 50mg/ml, you can do a ml for every 10 lbs. So for a 1.5 lb kitten, 0.15ml.

I don't have it right now, but maybe able to order some tomorrow. I just looked it up on Amazon. They have two different types.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'll talk to you more in the morning, or afternoon tomorrow. I gotta go to bed soon.

 

[pixielauren]

I found something online that said that witch hazel can be toxic to dogs, so using it topically can be a problem if the dog were to lick it off.

The same thing could possibly be true of the kitten, I would think. (I couldn't find info. on witch hazel and kittens.)

I also feel like, as a person who's had lots of cats and kittens over my lifetime, that I would doubt the kittens issue is something that a hemorrhoid wipe would help. Witch hazel is an anti-inflammatory, yes, but the key to getting the kitten to feel better is to figure out what is inflaming that area. Worms? Bad diarrhea? Some sort of birth-defect-related issue?

I hope the kitten feels better soon -- I agree with others that something like A&D ointment or aloe might be a temporary fix.

 

[casportpony]

Nothing that contains zinc oxide should be used.