Hi all!
My 7 month old kitten is currently at the vet being treated for dehydration, legthargy, constipation, fever, and lack of appetite. Her general health has fluctuated over the last week, but I have definitely seen an improvement since her initial symptoms started.
Dry FIP has been a consideration. However, she has some of the symptoms (A:G ratio of 0.2 - A is low, G is high), fever that has not responded to 5 days of Amoxil tabs, high white blood cells) and does not have others (no ocular symptoms, no granulomas on x-rays, no amemia, no lymphopenia).
She has always had problems with diarrhea. When I originally got her at about 5 months, I found blood in her stool. Vet gave me a deworming pill, even though nothing was found in her stool sample. She got sick with a cold and still had diarrhea, so the vet put her on Prednisone and Amoxil. Her cold cleared up, but she always had diarrhea on and off. Since her health improved, I stopped paying attention to whether there was blood in it. The vet said there was blood in her stool sample that I brought in today.
My question is basically - can Inflammatory Bowel Disease (possibly from food intolerance) cause Albumin and Globulin levels/ratios such as her's? Or any other condition?
I'm not prepared to accept a diagnosis of FIP when a) she does not have all of the typical symptoms, and b) her condition has not simply been downhill - it has been up and down, with a general trend toward up since the onset. However, the A:G ration is worrisome, and I haven't been able to find a whole lot of info on them other than in FIP articles.
Thank you!
Edited to add: She tested negative for Feline Leukemia. She had an FIP test sent away on Monday, and it is taking forever to get back. However, given that she came from a shelter, I would guess that it will probably come back positive for exposure to coronavirus.
My 7 month old kitten is currently at the vet being treated for dehydration, legthargy, constipation, fever, and lack of appetite. Her general health has fluctuated over the last week, but I have definitely seen an improvement since her initial symptoms started.
Dry FIP has been a consideration. However, she has some of the symptoms (A:G ratio of 0.2 - A is low, G is high), fever that has not responded to 5 days of Amoxil tabs, high white blood cells) and does not have others (no ocular symptoms, no granulomas on x-rays, no amemia, no lymphopenia).
She has always had problems with diarrhea. When I originally got her at about 5 months, I found blood in her stool. Vet gave me a deworming pill, even though nothing was found in her stool sample. She got sick with a cold and still had diarrhea, so the vet put her on Prednisone and Amoxil. Her cold cleared up, but she always had diarrhea on and off. Since her health improved, I stopped paying attention to whether there was blood in it. The vet said there was blood in her stool sample that I brought in today.
My question is basically - can Inflammatory Bowel Disease (possibly from food intolerance) cause Albumin and Globulin levels/ratios such as her's? Or any other condition?
I'm not prepared to accept a diagnosis of FIP when a) she does not have all of the typical symptoms, and b) her condition has not simply been downhill - it has been up and down, with a general trend toward up since the onset. However, the A:G ration is worrisome, and I haven't been able to find a whole lot of info on them other than in FIP articles.
Thank you!
Edited to add: She tested negative for Feline Leukemia. She had an FIP test sent away on Monday, and it is taking forever to get back. However, given that she came from a shelter, I would guess that it will probably come back positive for exposure to coronavirus.