Kitten has bloody stool, diarrhea & urinating all over the house - all tests negative.?

I have a 4 month old kitten. At 3 mo. he was taken to the vet w/ a 104 temp, diarrhea, & vomitting. All tests were negative. He was given antibiotics & we were told he probably wasnt going to live. He's been tested for Lukemia/Aids/worms/ everything. All tests were negative. We nursed him back to health & he came back spunkier than ever. Just this week he's started having pink spots in his diarrhea (I believe is blood?), I've seen blood on the floor. No vomitting yet. He's began urinating all over the house this week, which I thought was a urinary tract infection. All stool / urinary tests came back negative (means no UIT) from the vet today. Vet says maybe it's just a GI problem, & is making me try a new food & deworm him & he must be relitter trained. Has anyone else ever had these symptoms with no answers / no positive test results? Please help, my fiance says the cat is on its way out.

I am sorry to say this but your vet appears to be taking the short cut in treating your kitten. An idiopathic FLUTD could be a possible factor, in which the cause of the litter box avoidance can be explained.. Idiopathic simply means there are no infections (bacterial) and all test will come back normal/negative. Did your vet take a urinalysis and inform you of his urine's PH level or if there are any presence of blood, white blood cells are elevated amount of protein? When you mean all tests are negative, it only indicates that he does not have an infection but you should also pursue other information, like the one I've laid out for you.

JC is correct. It could also be giardia or coccidia. And also, colitis or better known as IBD (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). This explains the diarrhea and bloody stool.

Sending you home with a new bag of food and deworming is unacceptable. IYou need to gather more information and ask your vet even more questions. If he brush it off as just another GI tract problem, get a second opinion. Your kitten deserves more evaluation than that.

Good Luck.

i applaud you for keeping the kitten it needs help! try another vet. until you figure it out do as your vet said in the mean time. good luck i really hope everything works out for him.

Has the vet tested for both giardia and coccidia? Those are two other parasitic infections that cats can get, but don't show up in the normal fecal test for worms. And even though he's so young, ask the vet to check for crystals in his urine. That's very painful, and will cause a cat to go outside the box. It's also a different test than the one looking for bacteria in the urine for a UTI. If you get nowhere, then it's probably time to get a second opinion, because sometimes the second set of eyes can see what the first set cannot.

TCOMC is right on. I had very similar problems with my cat when he was a brand new kitten. He had chronic diarrhea, and then a bit later--about the same age as your kitten--started urinating all over the place. I thought it was a UTI, or a behavioral signal that other things weren't right digestively... But I then got him neutered and it hasn't been a problem since. So if you haven't already gotten him fixed, do that.

As far as the diarrhea, I recommend not going through all the different prescription foods. They didn't work for me and I wasted a lot of time. If the food is the problem, whether because of allergy or IBD, you'll be able to find out faster if you go to a single ingredient food the cat hasn't had before. Try Nature's Variety frozen raw rabbit. It sounds weird, but it's what i use. Add in a probiotic to further aid in good digestive function. That, combined with a steroid medication to bring the swelling in his intestines down, is what eventually worked for my little guy. But regardless of whether you're kitten has IBD or something else:
--don't let the vet give you the deworming runaround too long
--bear in mind that the first instance of fever + diarrhea + vomiting might not be related to what's happening now
--pay attention to what he's eating and how it's coming out. KEEP A LOG BOOK so you remember the specifics and can isolate your variables.
--do your own research online. look for resources from vets AND from people like us who have dealt with and now solved the problem. check out www.catnutrition.org, among others.