12/09/2025
Well I believe I have lived to see it all. I, being an older practitioner, have been treating chronic Gastro-intestinal disorders , routinely, with antibiotics, antibiotics, antibiotics. And in most cases the diarrhea or vomiting stopped; we thought we had done our duty and cured that patient.
Unfortunately, we only threw a wet blanket on the situation - for the most part.
Interestingly, as in human medicine, there is a move or push to realign the organisms in the intestines with chronic disease. When we use oral antibiotics, of any kind, we destroy the normal population of the gut. The research shows that many diseases can be remarkably aided by restoring the normal gut population - the microbiota or microbiome.
I have a patient that developed diarrhea at a very early age; I treated him, as usual, in my old ways with antibiotics; never got any better at all. All of his tests were negative for parasites, etc. Just chronic diarrhea numerous times daily.
There's a company here in the US that sells f***l microbiota transplant (FMT).
Yes, a p**p transplant!! (In capsule form). Just a few days of this f***l transplant cured him almost instantly; he has even gained more weight than his brother.
Moral of the story, if your pet is suffering from chronic diarrhea, cat or dog, have your veterinarian look into FMT. We have to re-establish the normal organisms in our pet's guts;
