Hi,
After ruling out causes such as feline virus, heart disease, cancer etc, our beloved cat has been diagnosed with ideopathic chylothorax. Its been 3 weeks now and his thorax has been drained twice and 5 days ago he was placed on rutin therapy and a low fat diet. The asthma like attacks he was having have decreased drastically from 20 a day to maybe 4 or 5. He is eating, drinking and using the litter box normally. Otherwise he just sleeps, all day and all night. The rutin and diet change seem to have made some difference but I wonder if anyone knows how long it takes or if our cat will ever be himself again. The prognosis from the vet for Sam to even live was not good. We have been giving him rutin 500 mg 3 times per day. Is that too much, or not enough? Are there side effects of rutin. It has been so frustrating, the information out there seems to be so limited and our vet has not been much help either.
Thank you
After ruling out causes such as feline virus, heart disease, cancer etc, our beloved cat has been diagnosed with ideopathic chylothorax. Its been 3 weeks now and his thorax has been drained twice and 5 days ago he was placed on rutin therapy and a low fat diet. The asthma like attacks he was having have decreased drastically from 20 a day to maybe 4 or 5. He is eating, drinking and using the litter box normally. Otherwise he just sleeps, all day and all night. The rutin and diet change seem to have made some difference but I wonder if anyone knows how long it takes or if our cat will ever be himself again. The prognosis from the vet for Sam to even live was not good. We have been giving him rutin 500 mg 3 times per day. Is that too much, or not enough? Are there side effects of rutin. It has been so frustrating, the information out there seems to be so limited and our vet has not been much help either.
Thank you