Diarrhea help!

I work as a vet tech and someone surrendered over this kitten. This is Bones he’s a 13 week old kitten, he’s had a rough start when he was younger he got both his front legs broken by a dog a then got ringworm. He had diarrhea for 3 straight weeks, has had multiple negative fecals, been dewormed 3 times and was put on Albon. We sent out a diarrhea pcr panel which came back negative for every. It cleared up for about a week and he was doing great then he got put on ringworm oral meds and it started back up again. He’s on probiotic with digestive enzymes, digestive support kitten food and I add phylum powder to his wet food. His poor behind is so red and he stinks! He’s been to the vet multiple times and we are just hoping he grows out of it.

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