Hi,
If he is jaundice he needs lots of food, one of the girls on the
list I mentioned that I belong to had similar circumstances the vet sent
her home and her kitty was not yet jaundice, just starting to get a
little yellow, but hadn't been eating hardly anything for 3 or 4 days,
she came home 5 hours later at lunch time to check on him and her cat
was almost comatose and bright yellow in just 5 hours, he had emergency
surgery to insert the tube and thankfully is alive and well today, it
took many, many weeks for him to show any sign of recovery thoughm and
he was pretty sick for that long, the doctor gave him less than a 50%
chance to recover. It doesn't always take days a cat can get Fatty
Liver Disease after not eating for just a day or two. Fatty liver
disease can strike very quickly, when Buddie got her tube she had been
sick with a sepsis infection for about a week, she had liver cancer at
the time and the vet didn't think she was going to make it, but she was
on an infusion pump getting measured fluids around the clock and I had
to give her medication every 8 hours through the pump, she wasn't eating
much and then nothing while she was trying to recover from the sepsis
and was just starting to get jaundice, but I decided to go the tube
route because she was fighting cancer on top of everything else and
Buddie hated syringe feeding so the stress of that wsan't good for her
in her condition. She loved getting fed through her tube and it was so
easy to medicate her, she did eat a little bit the whole time, but with
the tube I got her weight back up to over ten pounds and she had gotten
down to 8.3 with all the being sick and chemo and stress of vet visits
(my vet started coming to the house to check on her, and while she was
sick my vet let me bring her home on the pump and care for her myself,
Buddie wouldn't have done good in the clinic and I really don't think
she would have recovered if she would have had to stay in the hospital
while on the pump). She had her tube for about 2 months and for the
last 2 or 3 weeks I wasn't hardly feeding her through it at all but we
wanted to be sure she was eating good and maintaining her weight.
I lost her to the liver cancer in July weeks after she turned 13, but
she lived a very good year with the cancer in remission and we bonded
alot in that year, she was never a really friendly kitty but became very
lovey while she was sick.
My point is IF your kitty is jaundice, even alittle you've got to get
food into him, if you want to try syringe feeding you have to get
atleast a can of food into him, everyday, once Fatty Liver disease
strikes chances of survival goes down, and it requires a great amount of
time and dedication to reverse it. Cats need to get feed anywhere for 4
to 6 times a day through the tube and need to get a certain amount of
calories to survive and reverse it. A few of the kitties on the list
didn't make it, mostly because there parents waited too long and they
were too weak and just couldn't bounce back. Most did make it and are
alive and well today.
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