At 02:33 PM 11/22/2006, you wrote:
It may be a long shot but ask the vet about Pemphigus. It does take a
biopsy to diagnose, SMALL biopsy of the skin??there are two types.
One is worse than the other, One of my cats had it, It causes scaly
crusty hair loss, it is auto immune and pred plus antibiotics were
the treatmen plus topical steroids on the lesions, Only diagnosis is a biopsy,
Just a thought, My cat completely recovered.
Kelly
Hi all,
I have a foster cat named Ciara.
I pulled her from the local shelter in late March of this year with
her 5 kittens.
One kitten died, apparently of URI. Several kittens had severe eye
infections to the point their eyes were sealed shut. They were
cleaned twice a day with saline and treated with terramycin
ointment. One kitten has a scarred cornea. The surviving kittens
were all undersized and underweight. One became very ill with
diarrhea. She was taken to the vet and a fecal was run on her,
negative for both parasites and bacteria, and put on Albon, but was
dead within hours. The now 3 surviving kittens are about half the
size of normal kittens, but have been spayed/neutered and after
numerous vet trips have been proclaimed healthy. They have had
their distemper shots and one felv shot.
Mom has not been doing well and still is not. She had stomatitis
and had 8 teeth removed. She was then diagnosed with IBD (not by my
regular vet). I was treating her with a month's course of
Flagyl. I had a kitten with watery diarrhea and took her in and she
was diagnosed with giardia, so all cats are being treated for
giardia. She was also treated for giardia and the diarrhea seems
somewhat better. She has hair loss and her head is crusty (like
ringworm) but her back and tail are missing big chunks of hair like
mange. The vet did a skin scraping and says it is neither ringworm
nor mange. Since the diarrhea has improved the hair on her back is
growing back in but it is in very poor shape. (All my other cats
have beautiful fur - they are all on Felidae). She had cysts on
both ovaries when she was spayed. Now she has contracted URI,
apparently out of thin air.
I talked to my vet about this and asked if she should be retested
for FELV/FIV. He said yes, so we are going to retest her, but that
there are other virii that have the same effects that can't be
tested for? Does anyone know anything about this? She's been
mixing with my other foster cats for months. I've been slowly
vaccinating them (the rescue I am fostering them for does nto
require FELV vaccine, but I do) but have one with a heart condition
that can't be vaccinated.
Money is getting to be an issue here, as I am just running out. I
can't get the rescue to reimburse me for medical. I don't know what
to do. Does anyone have any ideas about any of this..stuff to try,
etc. She's a sweet cat, but I am sure she doesn't liek being constantly ill.
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