Hi Stan,
He really needs more than the little potassium in baby food. Call
your vet and ask her to look at his potassium number and ask her what
amount he needs to bring that number to normal. You will probably have
to go out and buy a potassium supplement in a pharmacy or vitamin
store. But be sure and ask the vet what milligrams he needs to get his
level to normal. Also his kidney numbers are not horrible so I don't
understand why the vet thinks his kidneys are in such bad shape. Kidney
problems can also cause his potassium to go down.
He may need fluids to bring his kidney numbers up ask your vet about Sub
Q's (intravenous fluids). Syringe feeding is when you get syringes from
your vet (without the needle on the end, 10 and twenty were the easiest
for me to use but they come in all sizes) and fill them with ground up,
blended food (you will need to blend most foods in order to get them to
go through the syringe), then you put the syringe in the side of
Jersey's mouth and VERY SLOWLY squirt a very tiny amount into his mouth,
give him a few seconds to swallow and squirt a tiny bit more in. It's a
very slow and tedious process but you have to be careful NOT to squirt
in too much at a time so you don't choke him or squirt it to fast and it
goes into his lungs. Some people have had success by putting alittle
food on a small spoon and actually putting the the food into their cats
mouth with a spoon. Some kitties hate being syringe fed, and for them
the spoon method works better. The main thing is he needs alot more
food than he is getting. And please try to get some cat food into him,
baby food is great as a rescue food for a few days, but it doesn't have
the vitamins and supplements that a cat needs. The vet can give you AD
(this is what the food is called), or you can buy Eubanuka cat food I
think in a pet store. If you can get 20 to 30 cc's of food 6 or 7 times
a day into him, it would be alot better than the baby food.
When is he suppose to get his transfusion? Prayers for Jersey to get
stronger and stronger.
--
Belinda
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