On the baby food, try pumpkin, has fiber and my guys have always liked it when they were off their feed. I drink raw milk, but even that will give them diahrea if I give them more than 1 teaspoon. Maybe mix with pumpkin.
---- Amani Oakley <[email protected]> wrote: > You can take your milk and dilute it with warm water and stir it around. > > Amani > > From: Felvtalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Sherri Godschalk > Sent: December-15-16 8:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FW: FW: Update on Bogey My FELV + Cat > > Hi Amani. This morning’s urine was also pretty clear. I will pick up some > baby food today. She isn’t refusing to eat. She just is really too weak. If I > hold her and let her lick it off my hand she does great. Almost a half of a > 5.5 oz can already today. She has not vomited. I thought about milk but she > has yet to have a bowel movement and I didn’t want to constipate her more. I > think I will offer her some at next feeding. I drink whole milk so I think I > will pick up some Whiskas today too. > > I was surprised that the vet told me to start the Winstrol again so soon. I > thought that was not a good plan. > > Thanks for the input Amani. > > From: Felvtalk > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > on behalf of Amani Oakley > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Reply-To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 7:42 AM > To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [Felvtalk] FW: FW: Update on Bogey My FELV + Cat > > Sherri > > There isn’t any hurry to get her back on the Winstrol. I would wait. Her > haematology numbers give you quite a significant cushion to rely upon. > Winstrol likely strains the liver, so you want the liver to rest for a while. > > It sounds like she is better, though. I recommend baby food, which you can > syringe feed into her. Keep up the feeding. It is good that the first urine > was orange but the next wasn’t. She is hopefully clearing out the bilirubin. > I think fluids are important to help with that, too. Have you tried some very > diluted milk or some Whiskas milk? That might encourage her to drink some > more. > > Amani > > From: Felvtalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Sherri Godschalk > Sent: December-15-16 7:42 AM > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FW: Update on Bogey My FELV + Cat > > Just a little update for any of you following Bogey’s progress here or others > who find these posts helpful. > > First day home from hospital. She of course wasn’t interested in eating. But > I would sit with her and she would lick Hill’s L/d and a/d from my finger. > She ate over a full can total. Every hour or so I gave her about a > tablespoon. Alternating between the two. I also am giving her water and a > few drops of Pedialite each time. The first time she urinated it was very > orange about 2 pm. She didn’t urinate again until last night around 10 and > was clear. She actually went to her water dish last night and took a couple > of laps. She is still weak and wobbly. But she know where things are. Still > seems out of it though. I doubt that she slept at all while in the hospital > so I am just letting her rest. She is curled up on a bean bag chair right now > with a heating pad on her. > > She isn’t suffering or getting worse. > > I have yet to start her back on the Winstrol but may do that today if the > jaundice continues to show improvement. Might make her feel stronger. > > Thanks for reading. > > Sherri > > From: Felvtalk > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > on behalf of Amani Oakley > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Reply-To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 9:21 PM > To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [Felvtalk] FW: Update on Bogey My FELV + Cat > > Sherri > > The yellow discolouration takes a bit of time to ebb away. The more important > indicator of how she is doing is that she is more steady on her feet and has > an interest in eating. She has clearly improved, so don’t let the yellow > colour concern you. It should fade away on its own. > > After tonight, if she is as good as you saw her today, I would take her home. > She needs to eat, and needs to be nudged to eat as much as possible. That > will help get rid of some of the bilirubin as some of it is excreted in > feces. It will also improve her outlook on life if she is eating again. > > Later on, you can follow up on the glucose. Glucose doesn’t just rise above > the normal reference range with diabetes. Animals and people will have an > elevated glucose when the body is in crisis or in pain. Retest her at a time > when she is feeling better. For the potassium (which is the “K” number) it is > just barely low. I would not leave her at the vet’s or give her more fluids > just for that. > > However, I would ask for her bloodwork to be retested after the fluids. > Ideally, you should start to see the bilirubin, GGT and ALT dropping. The > potassium may also now be in the reference range, and let’s see what the > glucose looks like. > > One key thing I was taught was that you treat the patient, not the numbers. I > follow the lab numbers closely, but the more important thing, is how is she > doing. She is improving and hopefully will continue to do so. I think that a > retest of her blood work should confirm that. > > Take her home as soon as possible and give her some TLC! > > Was the can of salmon a can of catfood salmon or human food salmon? If > catfood, I understand that there have been incidents of liver failure because > of an additive/preservative called ethoxyquin which is added to fish or fish > meal. (Fish meal can also sometimes be contaminated with mycotoxins which > might also have a deleterious effect on the liver.) That might also explain > why the jaundice seemed to come on so suddenly after ingestion. Do a Google > search on the brand name and see if others have reported a problem. > > Amani > > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
