Any easy way to get tylosin into a cat? Some of you might remember I inherited an older (10 plus) cat from my hubbys BIL. We knew cat had a “health issue” but unfortunately no one could tell us what it was and unfortunately it turned out to be colitis/IBD. Vet has prescribed tylosin but it must be bitter as he immediately froths at the mouth and sprays it everywhere. If I get it compounded into a solution will it be more palatable? Right now I’m mixing it with a tiny bit of yogurt and syringing it into him and it’s not ideal 
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He is under a vets care and we are doing the best we can for him. He’s had B12 shots, metronidiazole, and probiotics which did not really help. Also changed his diet twice to Royal Canin Hydrolyzed and some other Royal Canin allergy food and both of those were a huge mistake and made him really sick within 1/2 hour of ingestion. He is back on the Meow Mix and canned tuna which he came with. The tylosin was added monday night and it is helping some, his appetite is better and he is pooping only twice a day now (but still runny and urgent) BTW his name is Taz.
Is it available in a pill at all? I find that SO much easier. Wrap it up in a little scrap of pill pocket–just enough to cover it–and pill them. The pill pocket hides any bitter flavor and helps it slide easily.
Chewy has tylosin tartrate (is that the same thing?) compounded into a beef flavored liquid for dogs and cats. They also have soft chews, but say that is “for dogs”. Maybe check with them and find out if the chews could be split for a cat? Tylosin
I’m having to syringe an oral suspension of Azithromycin (sp?) and was able to get it compounded with tuna flavoring. They offered many other flavors as well. A month so far and no spit ups. He actually licks his lips a little after a dose.
Many jingles to Taz and you. I hope he continues to improve with your good care.
I don’t think it comes in pill form, what I have now is powder. I was thinking about getting empty capsules and filling them, but not too sure if they would go down without a fight. If I wrapped cap in a pill pocket, that might work.
Vet won’t use Chewy for prescriptions, she had an “issue” with them. She will use a local compounding pharmacy (Wingate’s in NH, they are awesome) so maybe I’ll resort to that. I’m afraid though that it will still be bitter and he’ll foam and spit (it’s impressive!)
Thank’s for the Jingles, he can use them. He’s a good kitty.
I’ve had two IBD kitties and both had the same reaction with Royal Canine and both were fine on Hills ZD. We did switch slowly over.
I mixed mine with tuna water or salmon water. Just blend the canned fish with water until it’s thin enough to syringe.
Fwiw, I had the same “omg it’s poison” reaction to metronidazole liquid, but the minitabs of the same med from wedgewood were very well tolerated wrapped in a scrap of pill pocket. Sounds like you have a similar option from your local compounder, highly recommend!
He did react pretty strongly to the metronidazole too. Not quite as much slime 
but we had some pretty gross moments.
Good to know about the Royal Canin and Hill’s. Thanks!
It might sound dumb but I had to give a cat clindamyacin and holy moly is that stuff nasty and bitter. Vet said to refrigerate and that would make it a bit more palatable. It seemed to work but I still got a bit of drooling and hideous death ray looks.
If you compound try vanilla butternut flavor. I had tried tuna and chicken flavors and those were clearly poison but this weird flavor went over like gangbusters. Go figure. 
