Good Afternoon All,
In October we rescued a kitten that was left for dead behind my work. Despite being malnourished, having a really bad case of ringworm and being quarantined until early December he has made a great recovery(with a lot of TLC) and is now in general population. Last week we took him for the last of his booster shots and pre-surgical bloodwork for his neuter surgery in a coupe weeks. Lab results came back today and while the doc said it was anything to alarmed with right now, I still get those “OMG PANIC” thoughts.
Vets emailed stated ....
Karma's lab results look fairly good.
He has a mild elevation to his alkaline phosphatase which is a bone isoenzyme so it is common to see this elevated in young, growing kittens.
He also has elevated monocytes, which are a type of white blood cell that we typically see elevated with inflammation or infection. Since Karma has no outward signs of infection, other than a few scabs on his ear pinnas, I don't think this is significant.
His Monocyte was 1355, normal range is 40-530 / uL. His ALP was 116 with normal ranges being 12-59 U/L
He is currently 16 weeks old. He eats, plays, sleeps and acts like a normal kitten so I’m trying not to get myself all worked up. I’m waiting on a reply from my Vet on a few questions that I have with one of them being “should I worry about FIP?”
I will also add that he eats Royal Canin Kitten Wet & Kibble food. Anyone familiar with these issues that can help relieve my crazy cat mom brain from going a hundred miles an hour?
Thanks
In October we rescued a kitten that was left for dead behind my work. Despite being malnourished, having a really bad case of ringworm and being quarantined until early December he has made a great recovery(with a lot of TLC) and is now in general population. Last week we took him for the last of his booster shots and pre-surgical bloodwork for his neuter surgery in a coupe weeks. Lab results came back today and while the doc said it was anything to alarmed with right now, I still get those “OMG PANIC” thoughts.
Vets emailed stated ....
Karma's lab results look fairly good.
He has a mild elevation to his alkaline phosphatase which is a bone isoenzyme so it is common to see this elevated in young, growing kittens.
He also has elevated monocytes, which are a type of white blood cell that we typically see elevated with inflammation or infection. Since Karma has no outward signs of infection, other than a few scabs on his ear pinnas, I don't think this is significant.
His Monocyte was 1355, normal range is 40-530 / uL. His ALP was 116 with normal ranges being 12-59 U/L
He is currently 16 weeks old. He eats, plays, sleeps and acts like a normal kitten so I’m trying not to get myself all worked up. I’m waiting on a reply from my Vet on a few questions that I have with one of them being “should I worry about FIP?”
I will also add that he eats Royal Canin Kitten Wet & Kibble food. Anyone familiar with these issues that can help relieve my crazy cat mom brain from going a hundred miles an hour?
Thanks
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