Stomach flu in cats?

**HeinBloed** · 22nd November 2010, 11:20 AM

Hi,
my brother brought a nasty bout of stomach flu home from work late last week. One by one everyone in the house came down with it but me HAH!
But last Saturday morning after the usual 5 am wake up call from my 2 boys (they hadn't had ANYTHING to eat for at least 5 hrs!!!!!) followed by the usual vaccuuming up of their food the situation changed dramatically within 2 hrs. First Vier-Zehn threw up his whole breakfast followed by massive diarrhea (thank God he made to the box for this....)

. Within half an hour I had a cat on my hands that was so miserable he wouldn't come out of his litter box even though he had completely soiled himself.
So I cleaned the poor guy and then allowed him to rest in my bed (on LOADS of old towels...). His brother Popcorn was not affected. Yet.....
So Vier-Zehn spent the rest of Saturday sleeping and being miserable while I had to keep Popcorn entertained (and also nursing the other affected family members in the house). Saturday night the bug then hit Popcorn, same wonderful sequence (barf.....sh.t)

.
This morning both are fine again, complaining about me having mixed rice into their food.....
Has anyone ever experienced cats coming down with the stomach flu?

Horribly tired,
HB

**Howlinbob** · 22nd November 2010, 11:59 AM

Hello HB

Oh poor you, and your poor guys! At least they have recovered quickly.
I thought that you can't transfer a human sickness to a cat, and vice versa.
So maybe it's just an unhappy coincidence.

Hope everything is back to normal now!

Louisa (HB!)

**Tivicoons** · 22nd November 2010, 12:55 PM

I think there are certain water borne 'bugs' that cats and humans can share, not all cats are suseptable but a few years ago we lived in a fairly large village, the water didn't always taste the same or 'right'. My husband was always suffering from... well an upset stomach is the polite description! But so did our kitten, she must have had the squirts for months, lots of tablets and trips to the vets, she was even booked in for a biopsy! Then the water board spent weeks messing around with 'our' water, we were days without the stuff, guess what the cat misteriously got better... our guess was that it was giardia, it is very difficult to prove one way or another but water born infections don't care who or what they infect!

**jckkerrison** · 22nd November 2010, 03:54 PM

The only time I have known of humans & cats going down one after the other was a good old case of campylobacter,all had eaten chicken so it was not actually infection being passed from one to another.....
Luckily there are not many things that do pass from animals to humans & vice versa !
Fingers crossed that next weekend will be better for you & not memorable because of all the s**t clearing x

**Cascadians** · 22nd November 2010, 04:15 PM

Last year swine flu was well documented going from humanimals to cats, dogs, ferrets, birds, etc and from animals to humans.

Hope you're all feeling better quickly! and you get caught up on nice rest.

**HeinBloed** · 24th November 2010, 03:40 PM

Hi all,
thanks for all your thoughts and ideas. No matter what it was in the end everyone is back to normal shape. They made up for 2 days of not eating (or rather backwards eating) by vaccuuming up double portions since Monday.....
HB

**jckkerrison** · 24th November 2010, 03:42 PM

Thats good news,enjoy your weekend....

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