Finally Found Out Why My Cat Kept Vomiting!
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If you follow my tweets, you would have read about my dilemma with my cat Hagi constantly vomiting. He would vomit every day. In January, I took him to the Vet where she ran tons of blood, urine, saliva tests to see what was going on with him. The tests came out normal. I changed his dry food to canned food, brushed him every day, and ensured that he had filtered water. Still nothing.
After his vomiting increased to twice a day, I freaked. I couldn’t imagine life cleaning up vomit every day of my entire life. Therefore, I did what I do best. I researched. I came across VetInfo where I saw tons of questions focusing on vomiting in cats from frustrated people like me. After reading about how it could be related to a sensitive stomach, one of the Vets mentioned skin issues. He said that it could be dry, itchy skin that is making the cat vomit when he/she starts biting his skin. I thought about all the times I saw Hagi biting away at his skin.
On Friday, I went to the store, and I bought hydrocortisone lotion and fish oil supplements for his skin. Guess what! He hasn’t vomited since. It was his skin the entire time. Two days later, I bought this organic papaya supplement for digestive issues, just in case, but I really think that it was due to his skin.
People always make fun of me because I am a research fanatic, but it makes me feel good in situations like this. Sometimes self-diagnosing can be dangerous because you can cause yourself to have increased anxiety. However, I am a big believer that more often than not, you can figure things out that would cost you tons for a doctor to figure out. If I would have gone the Vet way, the next step was to open up his stomach. It seems way too obtrusive to me, so that was definitely not an option.
Hagi is now happy, and so am I.
