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Hello everyone!
I read through many of the posts about lethargy in cats and didn't find anything that was like my case.
My kitty is an outdoor / indoor cat and he came home 10 days ago and puked up all his food. I thought he just ate something bad or was just being a cat; I wasn't concerned.
The next day he was lethargic, wouldn't eat (not even wet food or treats) or drink water, wanted to hide and had really bad balance.
I took him to the vet and they did blood work, xrays and everything came back normal except his white blood cells were a little low and he did have some inflammation precursors in his blood. He was on antibiotics for a cut that got infected a couple weeks before so they thought that he had gotten salmonella from eating a bird because the bacteria in his gut was knocked out by the previous term of antibiotics. He also has a minor ear infection.
Now, while on the antibiotics he was back to his normal self. Totally fine. I was keeping him inside durning the antibiotic course and was planning on monitoring him for a few days after his medicine was done to make sure he was okay.
So, antibiotics finished two days ago and he is sick again. Same symptoms as before. I am waiting for the vet to get back to me and I'm really concerned.
Has anyone had the same experience? Perhaps he needs a longer course of antibiotics?
I read through many of the posts about lethargy in cats and didn't find anything that was like my case.
My kitty is an outdoor / indoor cat and he came home 10 days ago and puked up all his food. I thought he just ate something bad or was just being a cat; I wasn't concerned.
The next day he was lethargic, wouldn't eat (not even wet food or treats) or drink water, wanted to hide and had really bad balance.
I took him to the vet and they did blood work, xrays and everything came back normal except his white blood cells were a little low and he did have some inflammation precursors in his blood. He was on antibiotics for a cut that got infected a couple weeks before so they thought that he had gotten salmonella from eating a bird because the bacteria in his gut was knocked out by the previous term of antibiotics. He also has a minor ear infection.
Now, while on the antibiotics he was back to his normal self. Totally fine. I was keeping him inside durning the antibiotic course and was planning on monitoring him for a few days after his medicine was done to make sure he was okay.
So, antibiotics finished two days ago and he is sick again. Same symptoms as before. I am waiting for the vet to get back to me and I'm really concerned.
Has anyone had the same experience? Perhaps he needs a longer course of antibiotics?