5 year old with blood in her urine

bittykitty50

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Just over two weeks ago, I noticed one of my cats urine looked reddish, so I made a makeshift device to capture her urine, it took me a day of two until I was able to do so.
The very next day I took her to a vet who (guessed it might be a UTI) gave her vitamin injections and an amoxycillin injection and had me start her on oral amoxycillin, after a week it hadn't cleared up.
We had to take her for x-rays (twice since he wasn't happy with the first one) and didn't find any evidence of kidney stones. So he said the mucus lining of her bladder was probably missing and he started her on penicillin and an "anti-inflammatory" drug. I used to alternate giving my cats wet and dry food. The vet was very upset with this as he doesn't believe in giving cats wet food.

However, I switched to giving her entirely wet food since I read that it's better if it's a UTI or in the case where the lining is damaged.

She doesn't appear to be in any pain and for the most part her appetite seems to be the same.

I live in a country where people don't really do blood work or urine analysis for animals so that doesn't seem to be an option.

I'm really worried (terrified!) as I've had her since she was a day old.

Is there any advice that anyone here can give me?
 

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Can you call around to all vets and doctors to see if anyone will run an urinalysis if you can get them a sample? It is really difficult to diagnose urinary issues without one. Is there still blood in her urine?

If antibiotics have not helped, it may be struvite crystals or calcium oxalate stones. These do not always appear on xrays but trace evidence of them usually appear in the urinalysis. It will also show any evidence of bacteria and provide a urine pH which also provide clues.

In the meantime, you might want to look into the use of corn silk tea or marshmallow root extract for help with the bladder inflammation. Moisture is good to help flush out the system, so adding some water to her wet food may help. Finally, stress has been known to be a factor in urinary issues, so reducing stressors where you can may help as well.
 
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Her urine is still the same.

Because it's a third world country, there are no labs that will do urinalysis. We wouldn't be able to find corn silk tea here nor marshmallow root extract.

I will call the medical labs tomorrow and see if there's that can do this.
 
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Thank you for your response!
 
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