Help needed: Cat keeps vomiting, won't eat, lost much weight
A buddy of mine has a 9-year-old cat that had recently coughed up a
really nasty hairball, and ever since then has neither eaten nor drunk water. Whenever she tries to eat, it all comes vomiting back up. She's been taken to both the usual vet and a veterinary hospital. Both are at a loss...nothing showed on X-Rays and the bloodwork came out ok, though there was a very slight drop in white blood cell count. Anyone experienced anything like this The cat has lost more than three pounds after six days of not eating on its own and she's getting increasingly weak. One person I spoke with had a similar situation with her cat...it ended up that the cat had swallowed one of those sticky clothing tags that they stick on new shirts. Wouldn't something like that show up on X-ray? The cat will approach the water/food dish, look up at its owner and walk away as though to say, "I really want to eat, but it just hurts too much!" Any other ideas would be appreciated. |
Help needed: Cat keeps vomiting, won't eat, lost much weight
Take her to another vet ASAP.
Gail wrote in message oups.com... A buddy of mine has a 9-year-old cat that had recently coughed up a really nasty hairball, and ever since then has neither eaten nor drunk water. Whenever she tries to eat, it all comes vomiting back up. She's been taken to both the usual vet and a veterinary hospital. Both are at a loss...nothing showed on X-Rays and the bloodwork came out ok, though there was a very slight drop in white blood cell count. Anyone experienced anything like this The cat has lost more than three pounds after six days of not eating on its own and she's getting increasingly weak. One person I spoke with had a similar situation with her cat...it ended up that the cat had swallowed one of those sticky clothing tags that they stick on new shirts. Wouldn't something like that show up on X-ray? The cat will approach the water/food dish, look up at its owner and walk away as though to say, "I really want to eat, but it just hurts too much!" Any other ideas would be appreciated. |
Help needed: Cat keeps vomiting, won't eat, lost much weight
Yes, it could be hairballs but.............. maybe not........
You can't always see everything a cat could possibly swallow on xrays, depending on the material. Maybe one more consultation with a vet with lots of feline experience. Back in the early 80's, I had a gorgeous inquisitive male orange kitten who suddenly threw up on a Friday night, went into hiding & stopped eating & drinking. I knew he was in trouble & confined him in a small room throughout the weekend, giving him fluids subcutaneously every couple hours - why, because I'd had a terrible & expensive experience at the emergency vet clinic with another cat. First thing Monday morning the kitten & I went to our regular vet, an old-timer with lots of clinical experience. He was sure the cat had ingested something, xrayed the cat & called me to tell me the xray looked normal & showed nothing. However, he told me based on his exam, he was still certain there was a physical blockage & asked for permission to operate which I agreed to. He called me later to tell me he couldn't believe what he'd pulled out of Ginger's bowel - a thick 1" section of heavy latex rubber tubing & could I explain this & yes I could. We knew the tubing had been bitten through a couple days earlier from our large seawater aquarium, but didn't realize part of the tubing was missing. Ginger recovered nicely & lived (& chewed things) for another 16 years, finally dying of CRF. Best of luck! M. wrote: A buddy of mine has a 9-year-old cat that had recently coughed up a really nasty hairball, and ever since then has neither eaten nor drunk water. Whenever she tries to eat, it all comes vomiting back up. She's been taken to both the usual vet and a veterinary hospital. Both are at a loss...nothing showed on X-Rays and the bloodwork came out ok, though there was a very slight drop in white blood cell count. Anyone experienced anything like this The cat has lost more than three pounds after six days of not eating on its own and she's getting increasingly weak. One person I spoke with had a similar situation with her cat...it ended up that the cat had swallowed one of those sticky clothing tags that they stick on new shirts. Wouldn't something like that show up on X-ray? The cat will approach the water/food dish, look up at its owner and walk away as though to say, "I really want to eat, but it just hurts too much!" Any other ideas would be appreciated. -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200608/1 |
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