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We've been dealing with discharge and discomfort in our last bottle baby since the end of August when she turned a year old. She has been spayed in April. Took two exams before they believed me about where the discharge was from, the first doc thought it was an anal gland leak. So far we have done:
several rounds of antibiotics
a food change
physical cleanings daily with chlorhexadine
two gynecological exams
Onsior as needed for pain and swelling
Probiotics daily for the last 2.5 months
and a culture
That showed Enterococcus that was sensitive to Amoxi, but we are almost through two weeks of Clavamox with no improvement. She is still extremely uncomfortable. I don't think they will want to do yet another round of antibiotics if she is not responding to what the culture has shown to work.
The discharge is a yellow brown that smells like a cross between iodine and urine, and there is a lot of it. She does not have a bladder infection, it doesn't seem to be actual urine, and she uses the box normally.
The doc thinks there are two possibilities, the first is that it is a post-spay issue based on pH and 'good' flora imbalance that is normally seen in puppies. They never heard of it in a cat before, but we get the weird cases so that wouldn't surprise me. If it is then she will eventually heal on her own.
The second is that it is her weight causing the problem, she notes that the folds 'down there' aren't allowing proper drainage. I do wonder if some of that is from swelling, as I noticed that it gets better when on the Onsior.
This is so uncommon in cats was wondering if anyone else has dealt with it?
As for the weight loss problems:
She started off at a very obese 13 pounds and I think we have managed to get her weight down by a half pound or so over the last month. It has been a serious challenge, and I am at a loss of how to encourage more weight loss.
She has some rather difficult brain damage that we have been working with. She was abandoned or separated from mom at a few hours old and not discovered for nearly 24 hours, the people who found her bathed her and fed her Catsip in an unknown manner but they did not use a bottle, and her two sisters died the first few days we had them probably from aspiration pneumonia. Any of the above has caused severe learning disabilities and all the symptoms of cortical visual impairment. She lives her life locked in her own little world. Great cat, a little quick to snap and get nasty because she isn't all that aware of what is going on around her, and very simple in how she interacts with the world.
To her, when the bowl does not have food then food simply does not exist, when it is full then it has always been full. She never seems to ever be hungry though she grazes if it is available to her. She never sits and actually eats, she picks a piece at a time and it takes her all day to eat even a 1/4 cup. She never begs, she never waits, she never scarfs even if I wait all day to put down fresh. She has not figured out that I am the one who fills the bowls, or that food comes from bags, or that when food gets put down she should eat it so another cat won't get it instead. She is with two other cats that will clean her bowl if she gets something different so going with diet food is out of the question. I cannot separate them either.
And since she is mostly blind, getting her to play with toys or chase things doesn't work. Oh, and she has absolute meltdowns with new things and places, too! Weeeeeee. Help?
several rounds of antibiotics
a food change
physical cleanings daily with chlorhexadine
two gynecological exams
Onsior as needed for pain and swelling
Probiotics daily for the last 2.5 months
and a culture
That showed Enterococcus that was sensitive to Amoxi, but we are almost through two weeks of Clavamox with no improvement. She is still extremely uncomfortable. I don't think they will want to do yet another round of antibiotics if she is not responding to what the culture has shown to work.
The discharge is a yellow brown that smells like a cross between iodine and urine, and there is a lot of it. She does not have a bladder infection, it doesn't seem to be actual urine, and she uses the box normally.
The doc thinks there are two possibilities, the first is that it is a post-spay issue based on pH and 'good' flora imbalance that is normally seen in puppies. They never heard of it in a cat before, but we get the weird cases so that wouldn't surprise me. If it is then she will eventually heal on her own.
The second is that it is her weight causing the problem, she notes that the folds 'down there' aren't allowing proper drainage. I do wonder if some of that is from swelling, as I noticed that it gets better when on the Onsior.
This is so uncommon in cats was wondering if anyone else has dealt with it?
As for the weight loss problems:
She started off at a very obese 13 pounds and I think we have managed to get her weight down by a half pound or so over the last month. It has been a serious challenge, and I am at a loss of how to encourage more weight loss.
She has some rather difficult brain damage that we have been working with. She was abandoned or separated from mom at a few hours old and not discovered for nearly 24 hours, the people who found her bathed her and fed her Catsip in an unknown manner but they did not use a bottle, and her two sisters died the first few days we had them probably from aspiration pneumonia. Any of the above has caused severe learning disabilities and all the symptoms of cortical visual impairment. She lives her life locked in her own little world. Great cat, a little quick to snap and get nasty because she isn't all that aware of what is going on around her, and very simple in how she interacts with the world.
To her, when the bowl does not have food then food simply does not exist, when it is full then it has always been full. She never seems to ever be hungry though she grazes if it is available to her. She never sits and actually eats, she picks a piece at a time and it takes her all day to eat even a 1/4 cup. She never begs, she never waits, she never scarfs even if I wait all day to put down fresh. She has not figured out that I am the one who fills the bowls, or that food comes from bags, or that when food gets put down she should eat it so another cat won't get it instead. She is with two other cats that will clean her bowl if she gets something different so going with diet food is out of the question. I cannot separate them either.
And since she is mostly blind, getting her to play with toys or chase things doesn't work. Oh, and she has absolute meltdowns with new things and places, too! Weeeeeee. Help?
