In my world, my perspective is usually, it can’t hurt. I would at least get her on the Doxycycline. It might help with the other problems you are having, or not, but I would probably give it a try if it were me. The only thing to watch with the Doxycycline is that the hard tablets have been known to get stuck in a cat’s throat and cause burning of the eosophagus. I have never had that problem but I have heard others speak of it. If that is a concern and all you can get are hard tablets, rub them in butter before giving them and ensure that the cat is given some yummy canned food afterwards to ensure that the pill goes down properly. Others have mentioned you can get Doxycycline in liquid form as well. I suspect that the problem has been blown out of proportion to the amount of time it actually occurs, and just like what happened with Winstrol and the link between it and liver damage, it has improperly curtailed the use of Doxycycline. I have found Doxycycline (a tetracycline) to have a truly remarkable range of effectiveness, so with any luck, it may address whatever is causing the other nose and eye infections.
Amani From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Marlene Snowman Sent: June-08-18 2:39 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Quentin Thank you Amani for all of this. My little girl, Bear has never gotten rid of a nose infection. And about 1.5 months ago developed an eye and more extreme nose infection. The vet prescribed an antibiotic for 7 days and then every week thereafter 2 to 3 days of this same oral antibiotic. The nose infection, clears for a few days and then starts back. She has no issue with appetite or anything else. Unfortunately the vet has never been able to really examine her as she is so angry and wild with other people. That being said, I’m not sure if things are just the way she has always been, with this chronic nose infection that she has never cleared or something else further developing. Either way, thus antibiotic isn’t working on eliminating this issue. And to your point and your experience with Zander, maybe now is the time for me to get this protocol going before something further or a worsening. Thoughts ? M Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2018, at 3:04 PM, Amani Oakley <aoak...@oakleylegal.com<mailto:aoak...@oakleylegal.com>> wrote: Hi Marlene I am not sure about a 3 year old. I think if he/she is stable and having no problems, I wouldn’t be too concerned. I would be more worried about a kitten, since they have very little reserves. Moreover, generally speaking, FeLV is known to be more problematic for kittens, then it is for older cats. As I have mentioned in other posts, when my cat Zander was diagnosed with FeLV (and he too was a very sickly little kitten when we first got him – worms, leaking nose, runny diarrhea and almost blind with gunk in both eyes), he lived in our house with at least 8 other cats for more than 7 years and no one else got it. With Zander, we had an initial episode in June where he got very sick, and his blood counts were terrible, and then he seemed to recover. Getting no advice otherwise from the vets, other than the fact that he was FeLV positive, we were relieved and happy that he seemed to be okay. He wasn’t treated with anything after the first bout of illness. Then it came back with a vengeance in September (with haematocrit at FIVE compared to a normal of 25 to 45), and from September and from September to December, we fought to keep him alive, with blood transfusions and trying every option out there – LTCI, interferon, etc. He was also receiving Doxycycline and prednisone at that time. It wasn’t until I added the Winstrol at the end of December, did we get a startling and amazing turn-around, with his red cells and haematocrit finally beginning to climb slowly but steadily out of the terribly low numbers we had been trying to fight with the blood transfusions. I always said that if I had to do it again, I would have started treating Zander after that first episode in June, and before he became critically ill, and almost died in September. My research has shown that Doxycycline has the ability to inhibit viral replication and/or the building of the viral coat. I would therefore feel that there is something which may be gained in treating with Doxycycline for a course of treatment, in the hopes that if the virus is there, it is stymied in its ability to reproduce. The problem is that there is really no way to know if the Doxycycline did anything, if the cat doesn’t go on to have a frank FeLV infection. It could obviously also be that the cat would never have gone on to have a frank FeLV infection. However, in my mind anyway, I think it would be a reasonable approach to treat with Doxycycline in the absence of symptoms, after a FeLV diagnosis. I recommend an extended treatment course of 6 weeks, because this is not a bacterial infection, and what is being hoped for here is to stymie the reproduction and spreading of a virus. I also mentioned recently on this chatline, that I found that the Doxycycline is also one of the few antibiotics which is effective against the immature phase of round worms. I had no idea that there was anything to done for round worms except the deworming that is regularly done. I had done that with a group of cats (young siblings) I had rescued from the road, and then A YEAR later, one of the three vomited up a round worm. I couldn’t figure out what had happened. One of the other siblings had gotten pregnant (yes – I am totally embarrassed – long story but not acceptable) and HER KITTENS had a whole lot of very strange symptoms. I finally figured out that the life cycle of round worms has the immature stage going through bodily tissues including the eyes, and these kittens had all kinds of eye problems which ONLY responded to oral doxycycline – ie – nothing topical and no other antibiotics. Anyway, I’ll save you all my pondering and research on this, and my ultimate conclusion that deworming should probably be accompanied by oral doxycycline, since the immature roundworm forms are not affected by the medication used to deworm the cats, and then cycle through and become adults (after invading the lungs and heavy coughing allows the immatures to be swallowed and end up in the intestines where they mature). Thus, a course of Doxycycline may also deal with this other issue at the same time. Whew. Amani From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Marlene Snowman Sent: June-08-18 12:41 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org<mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Quentin Amani, in reading this I now realize that I may not be doing enough for my 3 year old. I had understood that this protocol was for when signs/symptoms showed. I didn’t realize otherwise. From reading your post to JoAnne I should also be getting my vet to prescribe now the doxy ? My cat is 6.2 lbs. should I be combining that with some other parts of this protocol now and only going to the winstrol at a later date? Any advice is appreciated.... Marlene Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2018, at 1:21 PM, Amani Oakley <aoak...@oakleylegal.com<mailto:aoak...@oakleylegal.com>> wrote: Hi JoAnne If this was my kitten, I would not want to just wait it out to see what might transpire. I did that with my kitten, and it was a mistake. My suggestion is that you start him on a long course (6 weeks) of Doxycycline. I don’t know the dosing for such a small kitten. My guess would be 25 mg daily. I don’t think you need to start right away – give him some time to eat, bulk, recover from the other things like worms, etc. You might also want to start now finding out if your vet will agree to prescribe Winstrol if worst comes to worst. Not all vets have heard of Winstrol (Stanazalol) or are willing to obtain it. The combination I recommend, and had a very good response from, is: Winstrol – 1 mg twice a day Doxycycline – 1/5 to ¼ tablet (100 mg) twice a day Prednisolone – ½ 5 mg tablet, twice a day Amani From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of JoAnne Kraun Sent: June-07-18 8:22 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org<mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> Subject: [Felvtalk] Quentin I recently adopted a kitten from a rehoming site online. He was born on March 20, he was a little over 8 weeks when I got him. He was covered in fleas so I took him straight to the vet. They said he also had tapeworms. He was treated for fleas and tapeworms and received his first series of vaccines. His weight was 2.1 lbs. They tested him for FIV and FeLV. About 10 minutes after I got home, they called me and told me he tested positive for FeLV, a faint positive. I have been doing a lot of research and I have been told that a faint positive could just mean that the disease is starting and he will have a normal positive next time he is tested, and also that a faint positive is the same as a regular positive. He is not sick now. He eats a lot. I have been feeding him Orijen dry food and both Weruva and Wellness Core canned food. He seems to be gaining weight. He looks good and he is a very active and vocal kitten. He is very affectionate and loves my Cavalier Spaniel, who he likes to snuggle with after he wears himself at night. Because he was so young when he was diagnosed, everything I have read online indicates that he will probably only live for a few months to a year before he starts to get sick. I have never had a cat with this disease. Everything I find online indicates that most kittens will not be able to clear the virus and will live 2-3 years if we are lucky. I am wondering if there are some supplements I can get him started on now, before he starts to get sick. Regardless of how long I have him, he will be loved and cared for. He is already very spoiled. I just can't even picture this little guy being sick. He is such a good little cat. I call him Q. I just lost my 17 year old Himalayan Persian to cancer a few months ago. I haven't had a kitten for 17 years. I have 3 dogs and thought that an adult cat may be too stressed around my big dogs. The Cavalier is fine, but I also have 2 Akitas. My other cat was fine with the Akitas. She was not afraid of them at all. Q does not seem to be afraid of them, either, and he lets them give him kisses. I do separate Q from the Akitas when I am not around because one of the is very playful and I am afraid that she would try to play with Q. The Akitas are over 100 lbs so he could get hurt so easily. Q seems to be a very laid back kitten, he does not scare easily and purrs whenever he is around us. What can I expect? Will he start getting sick in a few months? Do they just quit eating or what happens? I would like to think that Q will be one of the lucky ones that lives for over 10 years, but I know I need to be realistic. I just want him to have the best quality of life that he can have with us. 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