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Hi all,
Our cat Hank female - picture to the right - has very severe non-regenerative anemia. At present, we don't know the cause, but she's tested negative for FIV and FLV.
On Friday her PCT score was 5%, and we took her to an emergency vet hospital on Saturday, where she had 2 blood transfusions. The first had no impact on her score, but the second increased her score to 18%. Over the course of Saturday night it fell back to 14% where it appears to have stablised for the moment. We're taking her to our regular vet tomorrow for another test.
Currently she's on Pred, a medication to prevent gut problems from taking that and the regular antibiotic to treat for the blood parasite. We're currently not contemplating doing a biopsy of her bone marrow or a sonogram of her intestines, as we recognise that she's a really really sick kitty, and feel that we want to see her start to improve before subjecting her to further testing. We have the option of additional transfusions if necessary and I think we would be prepared to do this if her blood count falls again. What we're focusing on now is on trying to keep her eating and drinking. Fortunately she now does have some appetite and is eating about half of what she would eat if she was fully well.
We're currently feeding her fancy feast wet food, as it seems to be the best thing to get her to eat - she still won't really eat her regular food - some treats and Whiskas cat milk. We're going to speak to the vet tomorrow to see if there's a type of food he'll recommend to ensure that she keeps eating, but in the meantime, does anyone have any recommendations for highly palitable and highly nutrituous food for her?
Please keep her in your thoughts - she was a feral kitten who we rescued and she's only 2 years old....
Our cat Hank female - picture to the right - has very severe non-regenerative anemia. At present, we don't know the cause, but she's tested negative for FIV and FLV.
On Friday her PCT score was 5%, and we took her to an emergency vet hospital on Saturday, where she had 2 blood transfusions. The first had no impact on her score, but the second increased her score to 18%. Over the course of Saturday night it fell back to 14% where it appears to have stablised for the moment. We're taking her to our regular vet tomorrow for another test.
Currently she's on Pred, a medication to prevent gut problems from taking that and the regular antibiotic to treat for the blood parasite. We're currently not contemplating doing a biopsy of her bone marrow or a sonogram of her intestines, as we recognise that she's a really really sick kitty, and feel that we want to see her start to improve before subjecting her to further testing. We have the option of additional transfusions if necessary and I think we would be prepared to do this if her blood count falls again. What we're focusing on now is on trying to keep her eating and drinking. Fortunately she now does have some appetite and is eating about half of what she would eat if she was fully well.
We're currently feeding her fancy feast wet food, as it seems to be the best thing to get her to eat - she still won't really eat her regular food - some treats and Whiskas cat milk. We're going to speak to the vet tomorrow to see if there's a type of food he'll recommend to ensure that she keeps eating, but in the meantime, does anyone have any recommendations for highly palitable and highly nutrituous food for her?
Please keep her in your thoughts - she was a feral kitten who we rescued and she's only 2 years old....