I'm really hoping someone has a cat that's gone through this. My kitten, Aziza, is almost a year now and has been dealing with an unknown allergy for about 3 months. It started a couple weeks after I brought home a second kitten, Mina, which was about 4 months after getting Aziza. Aziza developed rodent lips (ulcers on the lips) so the vet gave her prednisone and science diet d/d (a prescription diet to help the skin and uses venison instead of chicken). That combination worked well for a while but the rodent lips did come back. I believe they came back because I gave her a treat of some chicken at thanksgiving. The vet agreed that chicken was a likely cause and gave her more prednisone. Again the prednisone worked for a while. Then shortly after the new year the rodent lips started to come back. This time I gave her some benedryl right away and the lips healed up. As to the cause of that flare up, I think my pet sitter gave her the duck flavored d/d while I was away for Christmas. So it seems to me that she's just allergic to poultry, right? Except now she is losing fur. She is obsessively chewing at her self and causing bald spots. She's been away for poultry for almost a month now, I know it isn't fleas because I'm allergic to them and Mina is fine, and the d/d venison is supposed to help the skin. What could the cause be? Please help as I'm desperate to make my baby feel better!
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Allergies
- Thread starter awesty
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awesty, where are you located? Is there a DVM additionally trained in Chinese Medicine you can get to?
We had this problem with our Chumley, only his problem was compounded by being FIV+, so pred is contraindicated. Our traditional vets were unable to help him, despite prescription diets, meds, etc. He mower his abdomen clean, was constantly itching/overgrooming, had diarrhea, etc. He had bare spots in his forelegs, rodent ulcers, gingivitis...
After 6 months of no real progress, we found a holistic vet about 45 min away. From a Chinese medicine perspective, Chumley was diagnosed as having "extreme spleen Qi deficiency," and "extreme yin deficiency." The Chinese herbal formulas she put our boy on cleared up his diarrhea in 4 days. Inside of 2 weeks we were sure his overgrooming was stopping. Everything cleared up.
She had us stop feeding kibble of any kind, and had us feed him high protein, low carb wet food only, and wanted him on raw food when he was stable, because just like in people with allergies, (like me!), the less processed the food, the better.
Our experience says to me that with a holistic DVM trained in Chinese meds, you get the best of both worlds, as they can choose the best course of treatment. And Western medicine saves lives, surely. But when an immune system has gone haywire, it's not just one "thing" that needs to be treated; it's a whole system and the way it functions. Western medicine just doesn't know how to tackle that kind of problem. And diet is critical, and while a prescription diet may help, it's not solving the problem, it's just treating the symptoms. Cats are obligated carnivores, and when it cones to "allergies," IMO, just like in people, it's an inappropriate, processed diet that's thrown everything out of whack in the first place.
So we got Chum stable with the herbs, then switched to raw food. And at three weeks into the new diet, he no longer needed the herbals.
Many cats with "allergies," when fed a species-appropriate diet heal. Some need more than that, and that's a more natural diet for a cat, with food that isn't made of highly processed stuff subject to massive amounts of processing and extremely high heat. Without people, cats eat small mammals and nothing else, and they aren't out there cooking them.
This is a good site to learn about the building blocks of health in our kitties: http://www.catinfo.org
It is written by a vet.
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We had this problem with our Chumley, only his problem was compounded by being FIV+, so pred is contraindicated. Our traditional vets were unable to help him, despite prescription diets, meds, etc. He mower his abdomen clean, was constantly itching/overgrooming, had diarrhea, etc. He had bare spots in his forelegs, rodent ulcers, gingivitis...
After 6 months of no real progress, we found a holistic vet about 45 min away. From a Chinese medicine perspective, Chumley was diagnosed as having "extreme spleen Qi deficiency," and "extreme yin deficiency." The Chinese herbal formulas she put our boy on cleared up his diarrhea in 4 days. Inside of 2 weeks we were sure his overgrooming was stopping. Everything cleared up.
She had us stop feeding kibble of any kind, and had us feed him high protein, low carb wet food only, and wanted him on raw food when he was stable, because just like in people with allergies, (like me!), the less processed the food, the better.
Our experience says to me that with a holistic DVM trained in Chinese meds, you get the best of both worlds, as they can choose the best course of treatment. And Western medicine saves lives, surely. But when an immune system has gone haywire, it's not just one "thing" that needs to be treated; it's a whole system and the way it functions. Western medicine just doesn't know how to tackle that kind of problem. And diet is critical, and while a prescription diet may help, it's not solving the problem, it's just treating the symptoms. Cats are obligated carnivores, and when it cones to "allergies," IMO, just like in people, it's an inappropriate, processed diet that's thrown everything out of whack in the first place.
So we got Chum stable with the herbs, then switched to raw food. And at three weeks into the new diet, he no longer needed the herbals.
Many cats with "allergies," when fed a species-appropriate diet heal. Some need more than that, and that's a more natural diet for a cat, with food that isn't made of highly processed stuff subject to massive amounts of processing and extremely high heat. Without people, cats eat small mammals and nothing else, and they aren't out there cooking them.
This is a good site to learn about the building blocks of health in our kitties: http://www.catinfo.org
It is written by a vet.
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