We adopted 3 kittens from our vet in February this year. All of them were tested, dewormed, spayed/neutered before we got them. They were roughly 5 months hold. Everything was great but i noticed the smaller of three, Molly licking the fireplace hearth and sleeping more than the other two. I took Molly to the vet on 08/15 and she was severely anemic with a hematocrit of 11% and low platelets. She had a blood transfusion and was able to get up to 24% so we brought her home. She had tested negative for felv and fiv when she was adopted and on the snap test at the vet that same day. Before they did the blood transfusion they took blood to send to the lab that showed a positive Elisa test. That was shocking and totally unexpected
Over the last week she has gone down to 17% back up to 22%, back down to 17% and was 18% as of this morning. They also performed snap tests at the vet each time and all of them were negative. Even more bloodwork was sent out for two elisa tests and we had two Ifa tests performed at different labs. The elisa came back negative from both labs but one lab showed a positive ifa. We are doing one more ifa, the lab is actually doing it for free for the vet and will get the results in a few days.
Has anyone experienced this type of inconclusive testing? The vet is not ruling out a positive result but it is frustrating for her and me that it is not clear. It may never be clear. She is taking this personally because we adopted the kitties from her. Other possibilities include a blood parasite but the test was negative or autoimmune disorder. She is currently on prednisolone and doxycycline.
I was curious if anyone had some thoughts on this. We have not tested the other two kitties yet since we wanted to get all the results back and both of them are thriving. Molly has had far more negatives than positives but because her anemia is an issue it's hard to make a call on if she is really positive or negative.
Thanks.
Over the last week she has gone down to 17% back up to 22%, back down to 17% and was 18% as of this morning. They also performed snap tests at the vet each time and all of them were negative. Even more bloodwork was sent out for two elisa tests and we had two Ifa tests performed at different labs. The elisa came back negative from both labs but one lab showed a positive ifa. We are doing one more ifa, the lab is actually doing it for free for the vet and will get the results in a few days.
Has anyone experienced this type of inconclusive testing? The vet is not ruling out a positive result but it is frustrating for her and me that it is not clear. It may never be clear. She is taking this personally because we adopted the kitties from her. Other possibilities include a blood parasite but the test was negative or autoimmune disorder. She is currently on prednisolone and doxycycline.
I was curious if anyone had some thoughts on this. We have not tested the other two kitties yet since we wanted to get all the results back and both of them are thriving. Molly has had far more negatives than positives but because her anemia is an issue it's hard to make a call on if she is really positive or negative.
Thanks.
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