Therapeutic diet for a cat with megacolon after a colectomy surgery

A 5-year-old male neutered domestic short hair cat was difficulty to defecate for 3 days. The physical examination showed body weight 8.25 kg; temperature of 37.7^oC and respiration rate 56x/min and a hard, solid mass was palpated on mesogastric and hypogastric region of the abdomen. An X-ray radiograph showed that the feces had been piling up on his colon region with the length of 26 cm, hence has been diagnosed megacolon with fausta prognose. Laxative treatment was given but didn’t successfully to pass out the feces and a colectomy was performed on the 2^th day. Pre-surgery hematology test was conducted with normal result except for the thrombocyte (slight thrombocytopenia), with followed post-surgery medications: cefotaxime, ketoprofen, nebacetine powder, ranitidine and hematodine. The first until the third day of post-surgery, the patient was given fluid therapy and dates pulp extract.