He uses dex (to where fluid is accumulating) IF there is a difficult in breathing due to fluid -now there is a question on validity of pred on FIP - whether a cat is treated and cured with Pred/FOI - it actually had happened without FOI - I have ready a few different case studies regarding the validity of pred - and talks about the same thing.. as some cats did get cured just with FOI but without Pre - Dr. addie emailed to me a couple of months ago she was looking into the effect of DHEA - she thought it might be effective to use DHEA instead of pred - but has not tried it yet using on cats..
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: feline interferon dosing question-- Hideyo? It's hard to answer that, because she has been on some amount of pred for almost a year. She was down to 1.25 mg every other day in late December, and her appetite declined. I upped her to 2.5 mg/day and her appetite went back to normal. When she got sick with fevers on January 16, she was eating but not a lot. When I upped her to 10 mg/day based on recommendation from internist per FIP presumption (because it helps with fip symptoms, which mostly come from inflammation which pred takes down), her appetite increased to what it has been. Then it increased more yesterday when I increased pred to 12.5 mg/day. I do think that if I took her off pred altogether she would probably stop eating. Even though she is eating a lot right now, it is almost exclusively baby food. .She won't eat her normal diet, or even any cat food other than occasionally a few pieces of dry EVO. So I think it is probably largely the pred giving her her appetite. When I talk about wanting to increase the pred, it is to make her more comfortable-- more energy, less symptoms from inflammation. Dr. Ishida uses a one time shot of dexamethasone, which is much stronger than pred, so I am thinking to try that too. Michelle In a message dated 1/29/2007 3:13:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Was she not eating before? Pred does increases the appetite, but if a cat is getting very ill from FIP, even with Pred, they will stop eating - or won't eat as much as Lucy is eating..
