Michelle, I hope she continues to get
better – I am thinking that if she lost 2 lb in two days – it’s
probably because she lost water in her body from vomiting – may be you
can give her fluid to compensate the fluid she lost??
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
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Subject: Re: Lucy
Lucy has not been diagnosed with ibd, but
it is what I suspect (and hope, alternative being lymphoma, but the soft stool
issue started almost 3 months ago, which is a long time ago for lymphoma).
Anyway, she held down a little cooked
turkey for an hour this morning so I gave her more, that was 1/2 hour ago and
so far so good, knock on wood. She thinks I am insane for giving her such small
amounts. After meowing at me by her bowl and giving up, she went over and tried
to manually open the cat food cabinet!
She lost about a pound in two days, which
scares me, but at least she is hungry, knock on wood.
In a message dated 1/16/2006 10:05:56
P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm sorry. I confused the
two......... Does Lucy have ibd that you know of or just the bladder
problems?
My ibd cat who threw up (the others had
diarrhea) just did it every once in a while. I never could really
attribute it to anything out of the ordinary. He had kidney disease and
was on science diet for that. This was YEARS ago when that was all there
was. It might happen once every month or go as long as 2 or 3 months that
it would not happen. When it did happen I had to give him reglan, and
that would stop it. Usually one dose would do it. And yes, once he
started he would continue to vomit at least every 30 minutes without eating in
between, so I knew it wasn't from his food.
I don't know if the kidney disease played
into that or not. He died of kidney failure when he was over 10 years
old. At that time he had to take pepcid, reglan, and other things
(fluids, etc...) to try to keep him from being sick. But when he was very
young (3-5) we found out he had ibd and kidney disease and one kidney that was
just very small/malformed. I almost lost him then, but once diagnosed he
came back and lived another 8 years or so with just the bouts of vomiting here
and there.
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