hello everyone:
Sorry i haven't been here for the last couple of months, loosing my Baddy was hard and now I have more problems. AS most of you know Lucas was diagnosed with discoid Lupus like two years ago. he has been on prednisolone for two years now. Well, I changed vets because I wasn't really convinced Lucas really had Lupus (he diagnosed him based on symptoms only) , so the new vet told me what Lucas has seems more like allergies. he thinks Lucas is allergic to food.
So, Lucas is now eating Hills Hypoallergenic dry food. The vet told me I had to be patient because it takes like two months for the food to work because he still has the other food protein in his body. It has been only two weeks, but I wish I could see a change in him, I see no change. Lucas is scratching all over, his belly, ears, legs, face , neck, he looks awful!He is always indoors , but he looks like a cat from the streets. I was goping to take a picture of him, but I couldn't he looks so bad, my poor baby
he also has a fever, and since the vet doesn't work sundays I gave him 5mg of prednisolone instead of 2.5 to see it I could lower his temperature and it worked.
We have ruled out flea allergies, he doesn't have fleas or any other parasite. I stopped using perfumes and other chemical products just in case, I don't use Lysol anymore, I use a natural cleaner now.
I just wanted to ask, if someone has had a cat with food allergies, how long did it take for the hypoallergenic diet to work? I"m desperate, I'm even thinking of going back to the vet tomorrow.
Please help.
Tamar
Sorry i haven't been here for the last couple of months, loosing my Baddy was hard and now I have more problems. AS most of you know Lucas was diagnosed with discoid Lupus like two years ago. he has been on prednisolone for two years now. Well, I changed vets because I wasn't really convinced Lucas really had Lupus (he diagnosed him based on symptoms only) , so the new vet told me what Lucas has seems more like allergies. he thinks Lucas is allergic to food.
So, Lucas is now eating Hills Hypoallergenic dry food. The vet told me I had to be patient because it takes like two months for the food to work because he still has the other food protein in his body. It has been only two weeks, but I wish I could see a change in him, I see no change. Lucas is scratching all over, his belly, ears, legs, face , neck, he looks awful!He is always indoors , but he looks like a cat from the streets. I was goping to take a picture of him, but I couldn't he looks so bad, my poor baby
he also has a fever, and since the vet doesn't work sundays I gave him 5mg of prednisolone instead of 2.5 to see it I could lower his temperature and it worked.
We have ruled out flea allergies, he doesn't have fleas or any other parasite. I stopped using perfumes and other chemical products just in case, I don't use Lysol anymore, I use a natural cleaner now.
I just wanted to ask, if someone has had a cat with food allergies, how long did it take for the hypoallergenic diet to work? I"m desperate, I'm even thinking of going back to the vet tomorrow.
Please help.
Tamar