Gums and Teeth in FeLV Positive Cats

2006-07-01 Thread Amy Wilkins
I haven't been on the list much in the past 7 months so I'll reintroduce myself. I live in NY and I have 4 cats with leukemia and one with FIV. I got started when I rescued a mom and kittens that were all positive and the vet wanted to put them to sleep. I kept them myself (despite my

Re: Gums and Teeth in FeLV Positive Cats

2006-07-01 Thread Nina
Hi Amy, Sick for 30 weeks! Ugh! Poor thing. I hope you're feeling better now, you're going to be at your, um, largest, during the hot summer months. I hope this kid appreciates all this :) . I used to use an oral rinse prescribed by my vet for my felv kitties' gums. I would water it

Re: Gums and Teeth in FeLV Positive Cats

2006-07-01 Thread Nina
Just to clarify... When I said that I treated their gums with the oral rinse a quarter at a time, I meant each day I would do one quarter of their mouths. The top right one day, bottom right the next and so on. I didn't want to stress them with doing their whole mouth at a time and didn't

Re: Gums and Teeth in FeLV Positive Cats

2006-07-01 Thread Lernermichelle
Lucy had very high calcium on one lab test, but the vet said that this is often lab error, and seemed to be so for her (it was last October, and I think she had normal calcium levels after that). They said it could be a sign of cancer of the parathyroid gland, but that most likely it was a