I can't say enough for the alternative vet who has helped me with
numerous four-legged friends including Dixie who was FeLV+. She was
fine until a few days before she left this world and I, too, believe
the alternative treatment helped her leave this world more
peacefully. If you have an alternative vet in the area, please try
her.
On Dec 13, 2009, at 5:03 PM, janine paton wrote:
Took in an FIV cat with very bad stomatitis. I'd never seen a huge,
emaciated cat try to eat but run backwards growling and screaming
and pawing at his face, and boy, was I afraid of him! Vet pulled
teeth, was reluctant at first to use steroid because of FIV status
but after a month, very bad flare-up so vet wanted to try steroid.
I found an excellent homeopath instead and Kohl did very well for 2
years with this (rather intensive treatment) and a raw diet. He was
actually physically and mentally excellent until we noticed a
swelling that was dx as an oral cancer, but even his ending was
helped with the homeopathy and he did well until the few days before
we opted to have him eithanized.
Janine
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From: Gloria B. Lane <gbl...@aristotle.net>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Sun, December 13, 2009 5:22:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] stomatitis
I'll have to think - for Stomatitis/gingivitis, I've used
1) pulling the teeth (seems to work well)
2) Oral dexamethasone (some folks have good luck with that - made my
kitty cough a little but helped somewhat)
3) Monthly Demo (steroid) shot - nice but if it gets too frequent,
kitty comes down with other things
4) Convenia antibiotic shot, followed by oral Axithromycin as needed
(worked pretty well)
There's another oral med that I've tried but can't remember the name
right now, have to look it up. It was pretty good. I'm sure there
are some other options. As I understand, Stomatitis can be called
by several different things...
Best of luck,
Gloria
On Dec 13, 2009, at 3:54 PM, lernermiche...@aol.com wrote:
Hi. I'm fostering an FIV+ cat right now who has pretty bad
stomatitis. We had his teeth cleaned and 6 of them removed, and
after a few weeks of antibiotics post-dental surgery he was doing
much much better-- eating a lot more, gained 3 pounds in 3 weeks,
not seeming to have any mouth pain and the redness was all gone. We
stopped the antibiotics (which had been clindamycin then switched
to clavamox) and he remained ok for a few days. He then went to a
potential adoptive home with another FIV+ cat. A week later she
called for us to get him back, largely because his mouth got really
bad again. He is back on Clavamox, and has been for a few days, but
is growling when he eats and can only eat wet food that we break up
into very small pieces. His gums are very inflamed again. I had 6
FeLV+ cats, but was lucky that none had stomatitis like this. For
those of you whose cats have it or had it, what do you recommend?
thanks,
Michelle
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