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Bacterial Peritonitis
Can anyone in this group give me some information on this? Please?
Recently I had a cat that died, and all symptoms looked like FIP, then when we did the necrospy and sent tissue samples away for confirmation/diagnosis, it was NEGATIVE for FIP instead the cats death was ruled Bacterial Peritonitis? If you have any information on this please share it with me. Everytime I search this on the internet I get info on FIP rather than bacterial peritonitis. My Veterinarian has not had time to explain the difference to me, but if you can, I would greatly appreciate any information on this? Thank you in advance for any information you might be able to share with me or please direct mem to any reputable internet resources for information on this. Thank you. |
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Bacterial Peritonitis
I'm so sorry for your loss. I found this link with information on bacterial
peritonitis. I hope it helps. Bonnie http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/in...m/bc/51800.htm "JJ" wrote in message ups.com... Can anyone in this group give me some information on this? Please? Recently I had a cat that died, and all symptoms looked like FIP, then when we did the necrospy and sent tissue samples away for confirmation/diagnosis, it was NEGATIVE for FIP instead the cats death was ruled Bacterial Peritonitis? If you have any information on this please share it with me. Everytime I search this on the internet I get info on FIP rather than bacterial peritonitis. My Veterinarian has not had time to explain the difference to me, but if you can, I would greatly appreciate any information on this? Thank you in advance for any information you might be able to share with me or please direct mem to any reputable internet resources for information on this. Thank you. |
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Bacterial Peritonitis
I too had a cat die from this. She was lethargic, hiding laying on her
side, and not eating. I took her to the vet on Saturday where she got a blood test and was sent home with instructions to be given pepcid ac and laxatone. The vet thought it might be hairballs. Keep in mind this was not the head vet. My cat continued to get worse and I took her to the emergency vet Sunday night. She just looked at her and thought she was ok. By Monday she was barely moving. The blood test came back showing high white blood cell count. We bring her back in, the main vets sees her, and she is nearly comatose. Diagnosis: peritonitis. We schedule a same day operation (50/50 chance of survival) with one of the top surgical veterinary clinics in the area. My poor Zoe didn't wake up. The thing with Zoe is she wasn't showing a fever until the last day. I still feel if the first vet had put her on antibiotics as a precaution (she did find her gut to be swollen), though I know overuse of antibiotics is a concern, Zoe would still be with us. Peritonitis is where something punctures the peritoneum either from the outside or the inside and the peritoneum gets infected. With Zoe they found no foreign object and there were no wounds from the outside. Good luck in finding out more information. You might want to check out the Cornell Vet school site: http://www.vet.cornell.edu/ Stacey It was very hard to look up "JJ" wrote in message ups.com... Can anyone in this group give me some information on this? Please? Recently I had a cat that died, and all symptoms looked like FIP, then when we did the necrospy and sent tissue samples away for confirmation/diagnosis, it was NEGATIVE for FIP instead the cats death was ruled Bacterial Peritonitis? If you have any information on this please share it with me. Everytime I search this on the internet I get info on FIP rather than bacterial peritonitis. My Veterinarian has not had time to explain the difference to me, but if you can, I would greatly appreciate any information on this? Thank you in advance for any information you might be able to share with me or please direct mem to any reputable internet resources for information on this. Thank you. |
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Bacterial Peritonitis
Hi JJ,
Our cat recently had that. It was touch and go for her -- we were told she had a 20% chance of survival. The emergency vet said cats do not handle peritonitis well at all. It is basically an infection of the lining of the abdomen and puts all of the organs encased in the abdomen "pouch" at risk. Our cat had megacolon before any of this -- she lost the ability to, well, poop. She finally had a surgery to remove her colon, then the peritonitis developed a few days later when a stitch or two holding the intestine together loosened and let bacteria out into the abdomen. That is what caused her infection, essentially a man-made perforation in the intestine. She made it through the second surgery. What they had to do was open up the abdomen cavity and completely wash everything out with warm saline. I think they said they did it about 4 times -- the surgery was 3 hours long. Sweeter made it through and it's been a long recovery. She was in the hospital almost a week and was on 3 different antibiotics. She is now feeling really good again. I'm sorry they couldn't find your cat's problem beforehand, but it seems that this is a hard thing to treat in cats. Did they find what caused the abdomen infection in the first place? Take care, Rhonda JJ wrote: Can anyone in this group give me some information on this? Please? Recently I had a cat that died, and all symptoms looked like FIP, then when we did the necrospy and sent tissue samples away for confirmation/diagnosis, it was NEGATIVE for FIP instead the cats death was ruled Bacterial Peritonitis? If you have any information on this please share it with me. Everytime I search this on the internet I get info on FIP rather than bacterial peritonitis. My Veterinarian has not had time to explain the difference to me, but if you can, I would greatly appreciate any information on this? Thank you in advance for any information you might be able to share with me or please direct mem to any reputable internet resources for information on this. Thank you. |
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