When Homey's bladder infections come back, my vet has an antbiotic shot that lasts for 2 weeks. It usually clears things up. I also use a chinese herbal pill from Only Natural Pets. It is great, small, round so easy to give her. Now I will have to add the acidophiolus and yogurt too. ---- Natalie <[email protected]> wrote: > All you have to do when administering antibiotics is to use probiotics mixed > into their food. Just plain acidophiolus, will do, too. And if the cats > happen to like yogurt, even better - but make sure you get real yogurt with > real acidophilus, not some fake sweetended yogurt..... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beth Noren > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Being blunt > > Hi Marcia, > I know popular opinion is to limit antibiotic use, because it can kill > the good bacteria in the gut, but in my limited experience I prefer to > leave immune-compromised kitties on it longer. I had one little FeLV > pos kitten with a URI that had a 10 day regimen of Clavamox. She was > vaccinated a few days later, as she seemed to have cleared the URI. > Big mistake, I didn't know any better. The URI was not cleared, just > masked by the antibiotic, it came back, lost her to FIP a couple of > weeks later. When her positive brother started getting sick soon > after, he got prednisolone twice for fever and was on clavamox for > months (5, 6?) just in case. He never had any bowel problems from it. > My vet finally said she couldn't in good conscious keep prescribing > it for such a healthy cat. Had I left his sister on it (and not > vaccinated so young) I feel her immune system may have been less > exhausted and better able to fight the corona virus that turned into > FIP and killed her. > > Best wishes, > Beth > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Marcia Baronda > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Terri > ...He's om amoxicillin and they said he could stay on that > > indefinitely. Do you agree? She also said we could try some prednisone. > What > > are you opinions?? > > > > Take care everyone > > Marcia > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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