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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Middle Child on January 31, 2024, 05:15:50 AM »
Things went haywire, she stopped eating and had diarrhea all day yesterday.  Sitting around in that crouched cramp.  I would say adding fat is not going to work for her, but at least she's cleaned out.

i tried to give fluids last night but she objected and disconnected the needle after only about 10 ml.  I think it wasn't warm enough. It's so cold here, even with the furnace running it just got chilled again from me taking it from the kitchen to the bathroom. No way to keep the fluid in the tube warm, usually I let it run into the sink before I start but I forgot that step.

I let her go 13 hours without food and this morning she is asking to eat, but I haven't fed her yet.

PS rejecting breakfast.  Gave her the fluids, went a lot better this time, and she allowed it. I kept it warm by leaving it in the basin and carrying it, in the basin of warm water, to the bathroom.

I told her what was going to happen, gave her the Burrowing Towel in case she wanted to tuck her head in (she did), remembered to check the temp and flow before starting, and while she complained a bit, she did not struggle and allowed me to give her 50 ml fluids.

EDIT after she washed the indignity off in front of her favorite hot air vent, she ate a little of her breakfast, but not much.
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Pookie on January 28, 2024, 03:09:43 PM »
multistars multistars multistars  DrLisaPiersonWorthy DrLisaPiersonWorthy DrLisaPiersonWorthy
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Middle Child on January 27, 2024, 05:12:32 PM »
She had some more hard pieces in her poop overnight, including a marble. So this morning I added rather a  lot of fat to her raw meal, and gave her only half her s.boulardii. That did the trick, 10 hours later, she's finally gotten the rest of it out I think, and it was quite soft.

So now we're starting from square one again, and I'm hoping to manage it with the added fat going forward. 

One more thing, oh happy day, she's up to 6 pounds 14 ounces, which is her normal weight.
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Pookie on January 25, 2024, 03:44:43 PM »
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Middle Child on January 25, 2024, 01:06:11 PM »
Thank you!

Well I made a hash of the Vitamin B-12 injection because I couldn't get the cap off the needle, and lost half the contents in my efforts.  No trouble getting the needle into her, that was easy, she didn't even notice. But she only got half the dose. :(

I'll talk to the tech and see what they can suggest, a different kind of cap maybe, or I don't know what, for the next two.
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Pookie on January 25, 2024, 11:07:09 AM »
Queen Eva had a better poop in the middle of the night. Not sure if she's completely cleaned out or not, but I'm going to try upping her fat now, instead of relying on the lactulose, now that she's had a good poop.   It took 3 days of lactulose, 1 ml every 12 hours, to get her back to normal, now I'm going to try to maintain it with added fat to her one raw meal a day.

 fingerscrossed fingerscrossed fingerscrossed fingerscrossed fingerscrossed

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She was back up to 2 raw meals while she was coping with the reduced pred. But now that she's eating up the canned again without all that picking, I'll keep her on that mostly, since I have $560 of it sitting here.  funny2

I just love seeing her tuck in and clean her dish in one sitting. I can't get enough of it. She's never eaten like this, ever.

Also, I'm hoping the GLM will help with the constipation too. With her arthritis and the spondylosis in her spine, it is likely causing her pain to squat or hold a squat too long. I've upped her to the therapeutic dose of GLM now. She's showing no signs of stomach upset from it, and she eats the meal with it dusted over right up. She seems to prefer it dusted on top rather than mixed in. Her wish is my command.

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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Middle Child on January 25, 2024, 05:14:19 AM »
Queen Eva had a better poop in the middle of the night. Not sure if she's completely cleaned out or not, but I'm going to try upping her fat now, instead of relying on the lactulose, now that she's had a good poop.   It took 3 days of lactulose, 1 ml every 12 hours, to get her back to normal, now I'm going to try to maintain it with added fat to her one raw meal a day.

She was back up to 2 raw meals while she was coping with the reduced pred. But now that she's eating up the canned again without all that picking, I'll keep her on that mostly, since I have $560 of it sitting here.  funny2

I just love seeing her tuck in and clean her dish in one sitting. I can't get enough of it. She's never eaten like this, ever.

Also, I'm hoping the GLM will help with the constipation too. With her arthritis and the spondylosis in her spine, it is likely causing her pain to squat or hold a squat too long. I've upped her to the therapeutic dose of GLM now. She's showing no signs of stomach upset from it, and she eats the meal with it dusted over right up. She seems to prefer it dusted on top rather than mixed in. Her wish is my command.
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Middle Child on January 24, 2024, 03:46:44 PM »
She isn't on any psyllium at all, and has not been since her crash Dec 2nd.

I choose unflavored prednisolone. It doesn't taste like much, (I tasted it) and the dose is so small it doesn't even hit her taste buds, it goes right down her throat. 0.1 ml is very very tiny. Thanks goodness.  I remember when poor Jennie had to take that terrible clindamycin for the campylobacter infection. I'd never get anything like that into Queen Eva. The one time I suspected she had picked up some bacteria, I treated it with massive doses of s.boulardii instead.  4 doses a day, for two or three months. It worked.
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Pookie on January 24, 2024, 01:27:20 PM »
I'm glad to hear she's eating better.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could get the pred without needing the vet's prescription?  I get that they don't want people to take it, but geez!  When Kitty was on it, it was compounded with flavoring.  There's NO WAY I would have wanted to ingest fish and chicken flavored medication.   yuk

I'm sorry about the constipation.  :(  You've probably already tried this, but does lowering the amount of psyllium make any difference?
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Caring For Your Cat / Re: Queen Eva threw up with a pink tinge
« Last post by Middle Child on January 24, 2024, 01:06:47 PM »
I understood what you meant  Hug1 Hug1 And thank you for taking the time to help.

Finally, yesterday, she started eating without picking again. It took four days for Queen Eva to resume normal eating after going back to prednisolone daily (at a lower dose). Now I'm going to have to fight to keep her at this dose, because I see by the instructions sent to the pharmacy for the updated prescription vet expects me, again, to drop the dose after two weeks. I don't want to keep putting her through this yoyo, it has been shown to MY satisfaction that she requires the higher dose (as tiny as it still is) Queen Eva is a tiny cat, and the dose is extremely small, even what she's on now. I do not want to drop it back again.

And she's constipated now too, I'm having to use the lactulose. Mazy cat got constipated on prednisolone too, but it is not supposedly a side effect of it.  More likely the CKD ramping up I suppose.  Vet may want her on fluids again.

I have the Vets-Best fiber supplement but the few times I used it, it seemed to make matters worse.

The plain psyllium was the only fiber that she seems to be able to tolerate, but it made her stools too large.
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