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Hello everyone i am new to the site. I have a question in regards to antibiotics. I did read on a webb site the particular A/B my 9 year old kitty is on for a bacterial infection in the urinary tract had many side effects as wall as loss of appetite which mine has done recently and lost  4 oz. in the 3 weeks she has been on them, no other side effects.

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Thanks Stephen

It is Baytril and my vet mixed it in the sub-q fluids 1000 ml bags which i give her daily as she could not take the pill. She has had renal failure now for going on 3 years this coming may and is a little miracle kitty. It was on our last quarterly check up that the doctor found the bacterial infection which was just getting started and caught it in time. She has 10 more days and i take her back for the recheck as i give her 100 ml in the evening. I have been giving her sub-q fluids since she went into the renal failure 3 years ago. The crea count went up a little cos of the bacterial infection but not critical.

Thanks for you response that was nice of you.

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Furdaddy,

You may need to help boost her appetite, which you can talk to your vet about.  Appetite loss is also a symptom of renal failure so it could be more complicated.  Some easy things you can do, sprinkle fish flakes on her food.  Get A/D wet from your vet, its very high calorie and hard for cats to resist, but its also high in protein and since that's a renal issue you would only want to do this short term and in consultation with your vet.

A rare complication from Baytril is blindness.  The vets I work with have never actually seen this side effect in a cat, so its perhaps more a theoretical side effect than an actual one, but it wouldn't hurt to test her eye sight during treatment.

Lack of eating can make renal failure worse, especially if she was dehydrated, so I would suggest you talk to your vet about this.  You don't necessarily have to even take her in, a phone consult might be enough....

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You could also ask your Vet for something to increase her appetite.  As you probably already know, kidney cats DO normally have appetite issues, then with the added side effects of the Baytril, now it seems it's worse.  Of course, it could actually be that she's nauseated vs loss of appetite.  Does she go to her food, but then walk away?  If so, that's more nausea than loss of appetite.  Either way, though, you should discuss getting something from your Vet...maybe an anti-emetic AND an appetite enhancer
.  I know when my
Sven
(also a kidney cat) went on Clavamox, he would be so nauseated he would barely pick at his food the entire time he was on it. 

While you're discussing with the Vet, you might also ask about giving probiotics to offset the ill effects of the antibiotics in the gut.  We always give them, just making sure to give them at least 4 - 6 hours before or after giving the antibiotic. 

As far as using the A/D food, if she will eat it, I would definitely use it.  It is prescription food, so you would need to either get it from your Vet, or at least get a prescription from your Vet, then you can buy it from certain PetSmarts (depending on where you're located) or elsewhere.  Even though it's high in protein, it's still highly digestible, and the new way of thinking is high protein is not bad for kidney cats. Low protein is possibly why kidney cats turn to skin and bones
 

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A lot of kidney failure cats lose their appetite.  When I had one we gave her Cyproheptadine as an appetite stimulant.  You may want to talk to your vet about it.
 
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