Well I've noticed that my kitten has had bad breath the last week or so, I didn't think much of it. My mom was petting her & noticed that her lymph nodes in her neck were swollen. I took her to the vet & the vet said the big bump is her salivatory glad which was swollen but her lymph glands were swollen a little as well.
As she was looking at her she looked in her mouth & saw that all her gums were red. She said that she has gingivitis & it could be an autoimmune disease. She started spouting off so many different things that I didn't understand (she is a Dr you know) & the bottom line was she could have calicivirus, feline hiv, feline herpes, fiv, bartonella, fip or felv. Since I got her from a shelter & she did get a set of kitten shots, my vet explained that she could have had something after the shots were administered.
So now it's off to do a $300 blood panel that tests for basically everything under the sun. As I've been researching more & more, I was reading through a post about fish & Stomatitis. I started my kitties on an Omega 3 supplement a few weeks back. I am thinking of stopping it to see if anything clears up. Has anyone had any issue like this before? I don't know if I should go ahead with the blood panel or if there's a way to just test for Stomatitis. I will research that as well.
Thanks
As she was looking at her she looked in her mouth & saw that all her gums were red. She said that she has gingivitis & it could be an autoimmune disease. She started spouting off so many different things that I didn't understand (she is a Dr you know) & the bottom line was she could have calicivirus, feline hiv, feline herpes, fiv, bartonella, fip or felv. Since I got her from a shelter & she did get a set of kitten shots, my vet explained that she could have had something after the shots were administered.
So now it's off to do a $300 blood panel that tests for basically everything under the sun. As I've been researching more & more, I was reading through a post about fish & Stomatitis. I started my kitties on an Omega 3 supplement a few weeks back. I am thinking of stopping it to see if anything clears up. Has anyone had any issue like this before? I don't know if I should go ahead with the blood panel or if there's a way to just test for Stomatitis. I will research that as well.
Thanks