Re: Unresponsive URI

2008-03-13 Thread wendy
How is your baby doing, El? "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has!" ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ - Original Message From: designercats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent:

Re: Unresponsive URI

2008-03-06 Thread Gloria Lane
If his nose is really dripping, you could ask the vet about dosing with an antihistamine (like chlor trimeton) possibly. Gloria On Mar 6, 2008, at 1:19 PM, designercats wrote: Hi Wendy, I have him on A/D and Recovery. Recovery is newer and is sometimes more palatable when they don't like

Re: Unresponsive URI

2008-03-06 Thread wendy
So the issues with URI started before the Recovery food was started, right? I just wanted to rule out that he might have an allergy that is promoting the URI's. Poor guy. He sounds like he's really sick. Have you heard of A/D canned food? It's prescription food, and is high calorie. GREAT

Re: Unresponsive URI

2008-03-05 Thread wendy
al Message From: Gloria Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 6:05:54 PM Subject: Re: Unresponsive URI Forgot to mention, I do this twice a day. I've always read and heard that the standard dosage of Lysine for an adult cat is 250-5

Re: Unresponsive URI

2008-03-05 Thread Gloria Lane
Forgot to mention, I do this twice a day. I've always read and heard that the standard dosage of Lysine for an adult cat is 250-500 mg twice a day. I usually start off with 500 and reduce at some point to 250 before stopping it completely. It's an amino acid which counters the effect of

Re: Unresponsive URI

2008-03-05 Thread Gloria Lane
I 've been using a mixture of water or aloe vera, powdered Lysine, Vitamin C (the stuff for cats), and colostrum. I have a bottle with lysine and Vit C powder in it. I use about 500 mg lysine, probably 200 or so of Vit C (for me 1/4 tsp of the powder mix), and a capsule (opened) of colost