Hi Tonya
Maggie's symptoms sound identical to the ones we were dealing with
two years ago.
We used so many supplements and remedies that I am not sure what did
what, but two
years later we have a kittie who seems happy and healthy with the
exception of her
mouth, which somedays seems irritated and somedays, not.
Here are the things we used:
l-lycine for the viral symptoms (upper respiratory). You can get it
at a health food store. I used
500mg capsules which I opened and sprinkled into her wet food twice a
day.
DMG Liquid which is a formula designed to boost her immune system. We
gave her a dose daily.
Forti-Flora is a probiotic that helped her get rid of diarrhea and
supposedly is an overall boost
for her immunity.
We also tried to find the best quality cat food that she would
tolerate. We wound up feeding her
Petguard which is available at Whole Foods.
Since we were able to get rid of her symptoms we are now giving her
interferon every other day,
hoping to keep her immunity up and enable her to fight off secondary
infections.
As we've all learned, there isn't a magic pill and every kittie
reacts differently. I hope Maggie is able
to get rid of her symptoms and continue to enjoy the love and care
you've given to her.
Jane
On Feb 8, 2009, at 11:01 AM, TANYA NOE wrote:
We adopted our cat Maggie when she was 8 weeks or so old. She was a
happy healthy kitten until about 6-7 weeks later. She had
gingivitis and diarrhea and her lymph nodes were the size of large
grapes. We had he tested ( she was tested before we brought her
home and she was negative) she tested positive this time on the
ELISA test. We immediately tested our 12 year old cat Sasha and she
was negative. 12 weeks later we tested her again and she was still
positive so we had an IFA test done to see if it had progressed
into her bone marrow. Sad to say it has, it was a very strong
positive.
We feed her soft food by pro plan and hard purina kitten chow.
Our cats are strictly indoors.
She lives with Sasha still who thank God is still negative.
Maggie's main symptoms are diarrhea (lots of diarrhea), sneezing,
vomiting, swollen lymph nodes, painful gums/teeth.
She seems happy and as long as that is the case she will continue
to have a home here with us no matter how many messes I have to
clean up a week.
She takes Tylan powder for her diarrhea which seems to help alot.
Her vet is not that experienced at dealing with FELV positive cats
so I have been getting alot of ideas from everyone's emails.
Hope this helps
Tanya
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, amanda <white-dai...@lapis.plala.or.jp> wrote:
From: amanda <white-dai...@lapis.plala.or.jp>
Subject: [Felvtalk] FeLV survey, please take part, just a personal
one to better undertsand FeLV.
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:01 AM
Hi all, I want to ask you all some questions about your
present and or past FeLV kitties, this is a personal survey
to better understand the illness and how everything effects
it, I would be really grateful if you all could participate!
AT WHAT AGE DID YOUR CAT BECOME FeLV POSITIVE? WHAT
TREATMENTS DID YOU DO/ARE DOING? WHAT FOOD DO/DID YOU FEED?
WHAT LIFESTYLE DO YOUR CATS LEAD, E.G; INDOOR, OUTDOOR/BOTH
? LIVE WITH OTHER CATS OR NOT? HAS YOUR CAT HAD/HAVE ANY
OTHER ILLNESSES AND OR STRESS IN LIFE? IF SO WHAT? WHAT AGE
IS YOUR CAT NOW? OR WHEN THEY DIED? WHAT DID THEY DIE OF? So
sorry, but your time in answering would be really
appreciated! thanks so much! hugs and good health to you and
your fur babies, Amanda, Tora and Angel Silver chan.
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