Thanks dlgegg , I will try that. Glad to hear your cancer is in remission.
----- Original Message ----- From: felvtalk-requ...@felineleukemia.org To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 1:00:15 PM Subject: Felvtalk Digest, Vol 15, Issue 7 Send Felvtalk mailing list submissions to felvtalk@felineleukemia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to felvtalk-requ...@felineleukemia.org You can reach the person managing the list at felvtalk-ow...@felineleukemia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Felvtalk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia (dlg...@windstream.net) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:56:06 -0500 From: <dlg...@windstream.net> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Cc: KATHLEEN BUSO <kngb...@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia Message-ID: <20150628175606.ND533.27142.root@pamxwww04-z01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 try going to new-2054-gr...@googlegroups.com.I got in with them when my Annie was diagnosed with FELV and I was diagnonsed with Perpherial T-cell Lyphoma. I was supposed to die in 3 months and after 4 chemos that did not work, I am still here, in remission over 10 years.Pat and the others have been especially helpful and supportive. ---- KATHLEEN BUSO <kngb...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I wanted to add that Oreo has been on on an > antibiotics for 10 days now - Aventiclav and Clavaseptin - as well as eye > ointment Tetracycline. He has been taking Metacam intermittently to bring > down his fever, and he always perks up when he has the metacam. I've been > putting Lysine in his food, because I was told it would help if his upper > respiratory infection is due to herpes. I've been feeding him high calorie > canned cat food, and he had been eating fairly well until the last few days. > He is eating today, but I have to coax him. He is using the litter box > regularly and normally, doesn't have diarrhea and hasn't vomited at all. His > main symptoms are that he is quite lethargic, has a fever and his eyes look > really bad. He can barely see out of them due to the inner third eyelid being > so pronounced. He is also wheezy at times. He has been sick for almost 2 > weeks now, with no sign of improving. > > > I am hoping we can nurse him through this and then deal with the feline > leukemia diagnosis after that, so any other suggestions on how to help him > recover from the URI would be great. I will ask the vet about using > Tobramycin and Terramycin. Amani, thanks for letting me know your experience > with LCTI. I'm sorry to hear it didn't work for you but that's great that you > had success with the steroid. I'll ask my vet about that too. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: felvtalk-requ...@felineleukemia.org > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 12:09:33 PM > Subject: Felvtalk Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4 > > Send Felvtalk mailing list submissions to > felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > felvtalk-requ...@felineleukemia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > felvtalk-ow...@felineleukemia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Felvtalk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia (KATHLEEN BUSO) > 2. Re: 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia (Amani Oakley) > 3. Re: 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia > (swacht1...@comcast.net) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 08:13:29 -0600 (MDT) > From: KATHLEEN BUSO <kngb...@shaw.ca> > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: [Felvtalk] 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia > Message-ID: <795058524.22477810.1435500809183.javamail.r...@shaw.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, I am looking for advice about our little Oreo. We adopted him at 9 weeks > from a rescue group. His mom was a stray who was ill when she had her > kittens. The kittens were eventually bottle fed and had a rough start in > life, but then seemed to recover and were adopted out. About two weeks ago, > our Oreo started to show signs of illness. His inner third eyelid came out, > and then he started running a fever. I took him to the Rescue's vet, and she > gave me antibiotics and some metacam to bring down the fever. She said the > mom had been tested for a bunch of viruses, including feline leukemia and > came back negative, so there was no reason to test Oreo. A week later, he was > worse so I took him to another vet and she tested him and told me he tested > positive for feline leukemia. Up until yesterday, he seemed to still have a > fairly good appetite but was sleeping a lot and showing symptoms of upper > respiratory infection. Today he is uninterested in food and seems much worse. > I was wo nd > ering if anyone had any suggestions that would help, or should I just accept > that there's nothing that can be done? We were considering trying the LCTI > drug but we live in Canada so we would have to travel into the States to get > it. It would be about a 3.5 hour drive there and would be hard on Oreo, as he > hates the car. Has anyone used LCTI and had any success with it? Is there > anything else I can do for Oreo now, to help him feel better, like steroids? > Any suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated. > > > Thanks, > Kathleen > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://felineleukemia.org/pipermail/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org/attachments/20150628/8b5e56dd/attachment-0001.html> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 16:00:32 +0000 > From: Amani Oakley <aoak...@oakleylegal.com> > To: "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia > Message-ID: > <E0C1DFB06E10174B9D4AE353A62CECE3365301A2@OAKLEYSRV.oakley.local> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I have used the LCTI drug and had it shipped from the U.S. to Canada, to my > vets. I had absolutely no success with it. We carefully monitored our little > boy?s blood work for 4 to 6 months and there was no change in things like his > haemoglobin levels and retic counts. Try Stanazalol (Winstrol) instead. It is > an anabolic steroid and as I explained in my earlier posts, we had immediate > and stunning results with it. It also helps improve appetite and general > well-being while improving red cell production. > > Amani > > From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of > KATHLEEN BUSO > Sent: June-28-15 10:13 AM > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: [Felvtalk] 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia > > Hi, I am looking for advice about our little Oreo. We adopted him at 9 weeks > from a rescue group. His mom was a stray who was ill when she had her > kittens. The kittens were eventually bottle fed and had a rough start in > life, but then seemed to recover and were adopted out. About two weeks ago, > our Oreo started to show signs of illness. His inner third eyelid came out, > and then he started running a fever. I took him to the Rescue's vet, and she > gave me antibiotics and some metacam to bring down the fever. She said the > mom had been tested for a bunch of viruses, including feline leukemia and > came back negative, so there was no reason to test Oreo. A week later, he was > worse so I took him to another vet and she tested him and told me he tested > positive for feline leukemia. Up until yesterday, he seemed to still have a > fairly good appetite but was sleeping a lot and showing symptoms of upper > respiratory infection. Today he is uninterested in food and seems much worse. > I was wo nd > ering if anyone had any suggestions that would help, or should I just accept > that there's nothing that can be done? We were considering trying the LCTI > drug but we live in Canada so we would have to travel into the States to get > it. It would be about a 3.5 hour drive there and would be hard on Oreo, as he > hates the car. Has anyone used LCTI and had any success with it? Is there > anything else I can do for Oreo now, to help him feel better, like steroids? > Any suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Kathleen > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://felineleukemia.org/pipermail/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org/attachments/20150628/5650d320/attachment-0001.html> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:09:30 -0400 > From: <swacht1...@comcast.net> > To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia > Message-ID: <35A0CF07E5B5493FBF6FD0A5B3140A71@SandyPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > First of all Kathleen Oreo needs to be seriously treated for URI ? Tobramycin > and Terramycin ? drops of Tobramycin followed with Terramycin to help keep in > the drops for eye issues. Oreo needs to be on an antibiotic to help combat > the secondary infections. You may need to syringe feed Oreo ? a gruel of > canned ? and KMR a milk replacer. I prefer Breeders Edge from Revival, a > great feline milk replacer - they ship quickly. IF Oreo becomes dehydrated > subq fluids will need to be given - > > The thing is being aggressive in treatment and keeping Oreo hydrated and > nourished. > > As for Oreo being tested at this young age ? well it?s not necessarily > accurate. Should be retested no sooner than 30 days from the first test. > sites for info are www.vet.cornell.edu - www.2ndchance.info/flv.html LTCI is > a product from T-CYTE Therapeutics ? another site www.sheltermedicine.com > Koret Shelter Medicine Program > > www.v63.net/catsanctuary is where this info came from ? web site from the UK > > If your vet suggests testing a young kitten for FIV with the in-house test ? > BEWARE! This is the same for FeLV > > Testing a kitten for FIV with the in-house test is a complete waste of time > and money ? the reason is that the test looks for FIV antibodies which are > produced by the body in response to the virus ? this is fine in adult cats, > but not for kittens, because a kitten born from an FIV mother will inherit > the antibodies from its mother but rarely the virus ? so although it would > test positive for FIV, it would likely not actually have the virus. The > kitten will, over several months, lose its mother?s antibodies, and would > then test negative for FIV. If it is important to know whether a kitten is > actually FIV or not, there is a different test known as a PCR which looks for > the DNA of the virus itself. This test is not widely available (Langford Lab, > Bristol is one that does it). > > > > > FeLV > Feline Leukemia Virus > > FeLV is one of the fairly common cat viruses, that is much misunderstood.... > > > > FeLV (Feline Leukemia Virus) > > The virus is particularly devastating to very young cats who rarely live > beyond the age of two when infected. Older cats who pick up the virus can > live for years, like several at Catwork. > > How is FeLV caught? > The virus is present in saliva and spread by close prolonged contact such as > mutual grooming or shared food bowls. Biting will obviously also spread the > virus. > > Symptoms ? The symptoms can be many and varied (some of them similar to FIV) > There can be a progressive deterioration in condition over time. Clinical > signs can include fever, lethargy, poor appetite and weight loss. > Respiratory, skin and intestinal problems are sometimes signs of the disease. > Cancer tumours develop in some cats. > > What to do if your cat tests positive for FeLV. > It is important to test a second time, at a laboratory, at an interval of 12 > weeks from the first test. > This is because, when a cat encounters the virus, it can become temporarily > infected, and the cat?s immune system gets to work ?dealing? with it. In most > cases, the cat?s immune system will win and the virus will be beaten. > However, during this period the cat will test positive for the virus. After > about 12 weeks, through the more complex test at a laboratory, it will > usually be clear if the cat has successfully shaken off the virus. > Alternatively, the virus may have taken a hold and that cat will then be > persistently infected. > > > > > > > > > From: KATHLEEN BUSO > Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 10:13 AM > To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > Subject: [Felvtalk] 4 month old kitten with Feline Leukemia > > Hi, I am looking for advice about our little Oreo. We adopted him at 9 weeks > from a rescue group. His mom was a stray who was ill when she had her > kittens. The kittens were eventually bottle fed and had a rough start in > life, but then seemed to recover and were adopted out. About two weeks ago, > our Oreo started to show signs of illness. His inner third eyelid came out, > and then he started running a fever. I took him to the Rescue's vet, and she > gave me antibiotics and some metacam to bring down the fever. She said the > mom had been tested for a bunch of viruses, including feline leukemia and > came back negative, so there was no reason to test Oreo. A week later, he was > worse so I took him to another vet and she tested him and told me he tested > positive for feline leukemia. Up until yesterday, he seemed to still have a > fairly good appetite but was sleeping a lot and showing symptoms of upper > respiratory infection. Today he is uninterested in food and seems much worse. > I was wo nd > ering if anyone had any suggestions that would help, or should I just accept > that there's nothing that can be done? We were considering trying the LCTI > drug but we live in Canada so we would have to travel into the States to get > it. It would be about a 3.5 hour drive there and would be hard on Oreo, as he > hates the car. Has anyone used LCTI and had any success with it? Is there > anything else I can do for Oreo now, to help him feel better, like steroids? > Any suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Kathleen > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://felineleukemia.org/pipermail/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org/attachments/20150628/6f979ea7/attachment.html> > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Felvtalk Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4 > *************************************** > ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org ------------------------------ End of Felvtalk Digest, Vol 15, Issue 7 ***************************************
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