kimberlyb715
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Over the past few months (beginning in mid-December) Stella has had a lot of GI problems, the main one being diarrhea. I have taken her to the vet because of this twice, the most recent time was the first week in February. Each time they have checked for parasites, done blood work and taken x-rays to find nothing! While I am very happy that she seems to be overall healthy, I am concerned about how often she is having diarrhea. After her most recent bout of diarrhea last month, I decided to switch her food from Iams, what I now know was very poor-quality food, to Natural Balance Sweet Potato and Chicken. I started to transition her onto this food after she had been on the bland diet for diarrhea with no known cause. I took a full week switching her over to it and had added in some pumpkin to help ease things along. After she had been on the new food completely for 3 days I decided to stop the pumpkin. Within the next two days her poops went from normal and formed to very soft, so I added the pumpkin back in and things had been going well until last night when she had two episodes of diarrhea and she has had two more today. So we are back on the bland diet which seems to have slowed down her bowls. Since she is still very active and playful, has a good appetite and is drinking normally and the bland diet has seemed to have helped I am not planning on taking her back to the vet for now. I am just wondering if anyone has some suggestions about what could be causing this? I am thinking about trying home-cooked food for a little while and seeing how she does with that and/or switching her over to a Fromm's variety of food after her stomach settles this time around. I thought it could be a chicken allergy, although she has always eaten kibble with chicken included in it and up until December there were no problems. Also, she gets a multivitamin and a probiotics tablet daily. Any thoughts about this would be greatly appreciated! I feel so bad for my baby's belly!
