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Hi, hopefully someone can advise me on this..
A bit of background, I have a 14 year old cat who has suffered from stomatitis in the past. Last year, we had half her right side teeth removed and all of her left side. This improved her quality of life massively and she began playing again, eating hard foods etc etc.
Last week we noticed a change in her behaviour. She hadn't really been eating or drinking and was acting depressed. I took her to the emergency vets who injected her with water (under her skin to keep her hydrated) and told me to make an appointment the following day with my current vets for diagnostic tests.
My vets took her blood and said everything looked pretty much remarkable other than her white blood cell count was low. She was also drooling a lot and would not let the vet anywhere near her mouth. He advised she had quite a nasty infection in her mouth and gave her an injection of Convenia and an anti inflammatory .
Since then she has been hungry and thirsty but everytime she attempts to eat or drink she meows loudly and runs away (it's like she thinks someone has hurt her)
I am just concerned about her lack of eating/drinking - she clearly wants to but can't because of the pain. We have tried metacam but it's hard to get it into her mouth.
Is there anything else I could be doing to support her? I am so worried we will lose her due to not eating or drinking much!
I appreciate any help
Thanks
A bit of background, I have a 14 year old cat who has suffered from stomatitis in the past. Last year, we had half her right side teeth removed and all of her left side. This improved her quality of life massively and she began playing again, eating hard foods etc etc.
Last week we noticed a change in her behaviour. She hadn't really been eating or drinking and was acting depressed. I took her to the emergency vets who injected her with water (under her skin to keep her hydrated) and told me to make an appointment the following day with my current vets for diagnostic tests.
My vets took her blood and said everything looked pretty much remarkable other than her white blood cell count was low. She was also drooling a lot and would not let the vet anywhere near her mouth. He advised she had quite a nasty infection in her mouth and gave her an injection of Convenia and an anti inflammatory .
Since then she has been hungry and thirsty but everytime she attempts to eat or drink she meows loudly and runs away (it's like she thinks someone has hurt her)
I am just concerned about her lack of eating/drinking - she clearly wants to but can't because of the pain. We have tried metacam but it's hard to get it into her mouth.
Is there anything else I could be doing to support her? I am so worried we will lose her due to not eating or drinking much!
I appreciate any help
Thanks