Drooling

My 9 year old female himalyan is on her second day at the vet. She was drooling excessively, non-stop. She stopped eating, and was lethargic. She had perfect blood work, and tested negative for feline leukemia. She is up to date on all her shots. I am so heart broken at the thought of losing her. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas what might be wrong with her. Thanks

I would bet it's her teeth, or a tooth that is causing her alot of pain.

If she is drooling like that but not vomiting, I can almost guarantee she has abcessed teeth, gum inflammation and needs some dental.

Be sure she is VERY thoroughly examined orally.

Thanks, but her teeth were checked, twice. That was all good. She was also sedated and had an ultrasound on her tummy. Everything came up good. My vet is stumped.

That's crazy. Drooling but not vomiting, and not her teeth?

Hmm. I see why he is stumped.

So am I......

I have no clue at this point, and I do hope you will let us know what is found about the cause.

Does she allow a thorough examination of her mouth?

That is the only cause I know of for drooling but not vomiting/wretching, oral issues.

Sorry I am unable to offer any help here!

Please keep us posted as my first thought was also teeth or an abscess on her gums.

I always think of IBD when a kitty is lethargic, has no appetite and nothing else shows up on exam or with tests.  IBD presents with different symptoms depending on where the inflammation is.  One of my kitties drools like that when she is stressed.  I don't mean just a little but like a waterfall.  When she went in for a dental they waited until she stopped with the drooling before they started and finally gave up and went ahead with it.  Some drooling also goes with nausea.  They will also often go to the bowl, act like they are going to eat and walk away.  If nothing shows up I would ask the vet about trying a steroid.  Many vets will use a steroid as a diagnostic tool for IBD.  There will usually be pronounced improvement when on the steroid.

Probably not the right guess.But again houseplants or ingestion of

toxins/etc can cause drooling. Also neurologic depression.

Maybe not .

Here is a list of things that can cause drooling.

Poison-(antifreeze, snail bait, toxic plants, etc)

Dental problems Decay/stomatitis, abcess

Rabies

URI

Heat stroke

Oral cancer

Chronic renal failure/kidney

Nausea

Reflux

I think at this point looking into possible poison, kidney failure/disease should be investigated since oral issues is ruled out and she has not vomited from nausea or wretched from reflux.

I think oral cancer would be obvious in dental exam, and heatstroke she would be recovering at this point.

It started suddenly and accompanied with lethargy and lack of appetite, so I would suspect she ate something poisonous or kidneys.

I doubt it would be rabies either.

Check her mouth and teeth. had the same problem once with princess

Nope the feeding tube is called an NG tube inserted into her little nose and secured to her whiskers. You will be able to feed her nutritional food the vet will give you several times a day. My Pookie had one for 3 weeks after surgery and came home with it for 2 weeks until he got his appetite back. The food will be an all liquid food. It's very important you feed you cat slowly and feed him exactly how much the vet directs you to feed him at each meal time. The tube is inserted all the way into his belly so the food should be kept at room temperature before feeding.

Most importantly is the cleaning of the tube once your cat is fed. A little warm water will do the trick. My Pookie recovered just fine with the NG tube. I also always fed him while he was sleeping. Ask questions of your vet if your unsure of something. NO solids will go into the NG tube just his liquid diet. The food plus his medication will give him his appetite back in about a week. Once he goes to his food bowl to eat the tube then has to be removed by the vet, as the cat can't eat food with the NG tube inserted. Good luck and keep us posted.

Any update yet?

Yesterday morning she was running a fever. She has dishcharge from her nose and eyes. He now believes it to be a URI. Last night she was still in fever at 40.1. She is keeping the food down that they are giving her through her feeding tube. This morning he will start her on an antiviral drug. He said the fever is a good sign, that her body is stopping the virus from reproducing. I guess vaccinating your cat doesn`t make it a sure thing that they won`t catch illnesses like what she has. This is day seven of Mizzy`s fight to live.