Hi Sue, This is the second half of the information I rec'd from Dr. Fiona from Just answer.com 2. Long term antibiotics. My own cat had this problem when I adopted him. I kept him on (clindamycin) for 6 weeks. Here is more about this antibiotic: http://www.petplace.com/drug-library/clindamycin-antirobe/page1.aspx I am not suggesting that the antibiotics your vet has chosen are not appropriate… the truth is that unless we do a culture (take a sample of the nasal discharge from the back of the throat and send it to a lab for analysis) we are just guessing what might be growing in there and what antibiotic might kill it. A culture and sensitivity test gives us answers! More about this test here: http://www.petplace.com/cats/culture-and-sensitivity-in-cats/page1.aspx 3. Antibiotic nasal drops are quite effective. I use gentocin ophthalmic instilled intranasally like a nasal spray twice daily. 4. If you want to try something without going back to your vet, go to the pharmacy and ask for ophthalmic saline, or have a look in the contact lens section. What you want it just sterile saline drops to relieve dry eyes - NO medication in it. The pharmacist should be able to point it out to you. Put one drop in each nostril twice daily. The idea is that you are helping to moisten the area so your cat can sneeze out any congestion in there. Continue for a week. 5. You can also try "steaming" him in the bathroom 2 or 3 times a day. Basically, you take him in, close the door and turn on a hot shower. The steam will also help to loosen any congestion in his nasal sinuses so he can sneeze it out. 6. Consider buying a humidifier. This works the same way as the steaming in the bathroom.. 7. He may need 2 antibiotics given at the same time for a longer period of time. I like zithromax and baytril together. 8. He may have a resistant infection of Pseudomonas in there. This means it is resistant to most antibiotics. If other antibiotics haven't worked, ask your vet about carbenicillin as it is a drug that seems to work well in some of these cases. Here is more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbenicillin 9. Another medication to consider is Famciclovir. It is expensive! It is an anti-viral medication. Here is more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famciclovir 10. Herpes virus may be part of the problem. So, it may be useful to put your cat on Lysine capsules. Herpes viruses need an amino acid called arginine to replicate and survive. If you give lysine, it substitutes in for arginine but does NOT allow the virus to replicate! Thus, it can stop the virus and really help the cat's immune system to win. You can pick up Lysine at most health food stores. I usually suggest that cats be given 250mg twice daily for 3 weeks. The capsules with powder in them are easiest to give, as you can simply open it, and mix the powder in with some canned food. You can read more about it here: http://www.thensome.com/herpes.htm
I hope this info. has been helpful to you and Tweezer. ________________________________ From: Sue & Frank Koren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FeLV Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 12:55:30 PM Subject: [Felvtalk] Tweezer sneezing blood My two year old FeLV+ kitty Tweezer has been sneezing blood for a few days. (At first we didn't know where it was coming from, we were just seeing tiny blood droplets on the floor.) Last night we saw what was happening. He sounds a little stuffy, but he has sounded that way since we got him. My problem is that my usual vet who is good with my positive kittys is on vacation until the 24th of November. I personally consider the associates in his practice to be less then adequate for a positive kittys specail problems. I am trying to decide if I should wait for my usual vet (Possibly start Tweezer on some Doxycycline in the mean time), take them to one of the other vets in the practice and hope that this problem is something they can handle, or maybe take him to an internist I have been to before with one of my other cats. I guess it all depends on why this is happening to him. Has anyone ever had a cat sneeze blood droplets? _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
