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my cat's tongue turned purple!
My cat just got back from spending the weekend at the vet's because he needed
SubQ fluids and antibiotics - I know my cat's tongue was red - now it's purple - think its the meds or a reaction to the meds? I'm assuming the vet would've noticed this before otherwise she won't have sent him home. anyone else ever experience this? -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200610/1 |
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my cat's tongue turned purple!
kitkat via CatKB.com wrote: My cat just got back from spending the weekend at the vet's because he needed SubQ fluids and antibiotics - I know my cat's tongue was red - now it's purple - think its the meds or a reaction to the meds? I'm assuming the vet would've noticed this before otherwise she won't have sent him home. anyone else ever experience this? -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200610/1 what an odd coincidence. Yesterday I noticed that Rudy's tongue was purple! It's normally a very light pink. I looked in his mouth and his gums and lips were still light pink like normal, so I figured it wasn't heart related and forgot all about it until your post. Rudy is 3 years old and healthy. I'll be curious to know what your vet says about it. |
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my cat's tongue turned purple!
kitkat via CatKB.com wrote: My cat just got back from spending the weekend at the vet's because he needed SubQ fluids and antibiotics - I know my cat's tongue was red - now it's purple - think its the meds or a reaction to the meds? I'm assuming the vet would've noticed this before otherwise she won't have sent him home. anyone else ever experience this? -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200610/1 what an odd coincidence. Yesterday I noticed that Rudy's tongue was purple! It's normally a very light pink. I looked in his mouth and his gums and lips were still light pink like normal, so I figured it wasn't heart related and forgot all about it until your post. Rudy is 3 years old and healthy. I'll be curious to know what your vet says about it. |
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my cat's tongue turned purple!
Lynne wrote: kitkat via CatKB.com wrote: My cat just got back from spending the weekend at the vet's because he needed SubQ fluids and antibiotics - I know my cat's tongue was red - now it's purple - think its the meds or a reaction to the meds? I'm assuming the vet would've noticed this before otherwise she won't have sent him home. anyone else ever experience this? -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200610/1 what an odd coincidence. Yesterday I noticed that Rudy's tongue was purple! It's normally a very light pink. I looked in his mouth and his gums and lips were still light pink like normal, so I figured it wasn't heart related and forgot all about it until your post. Rudy is 3 years old and healthy. I'll be curious to know what your vet says about it. I just pried his mouth open to look and it's light pink again... perhaps your cat's purple tongue will be transient as well? |
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my cat's tongue turned purple!
"kitkat via CatKB.com" u26561@uwe wrote:
My cat just got back from spending the weekend at the vet's because he needed SubQ fluids and antibiotics - I know my cat's tongue was red - now it's purple - think its the meds or a reaction to the meds? I'm assuming the vet would've noticed this before otherwise she won't have sent him home. anyone else ever experience this? It might be from the meds or something he ate while there. (My tongue turns purple when I eat blueberries.) A purple tongue could also be an indication of shock (a drop in blood pressure and the blood not picking up enough oxygen). What color are his lips and gums? If they're a healthy normal color, I wouldn't worry too much about it, but I would monitor it closely. Another possibility is that he's developed a fungal infection on his tongue. I've never heard of a cat with a mouth fungus, but we people sometimes get them when antibiotics knock out the beneficial bacteria in our mouths or when stress has weakened our immune systems, so I'd guess the same thing could happen in a cat. -- Kathy - If you're reading this in your web browser from Google or similar forum, NNTP "newsreaders" are a better way to access the content. http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/how-it-works.html Links to NNTP newsreaders at http://www.newsreaders.com/ |
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my cat's tongue turned purple!
"kitkat via CatKB.com" u26561@uwe wrote in message news:67903b2193021@uwe... My cat just got back from spending the weekend at the vet's because he needed SubQ fluids and antibiotics - I know my cat's tongue was red - now it's purple - think its the meds or a reaction to the meds? I'm assuming the vet would've noticed this before otherwise she won't have sent him home. anyone else ever experience this? -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx...ealth/200610/1 One of my cats toung and mouth got purpleish when he wasn't breathing well. An hour on oxygen and some other treatment helped. Another had suspected liver problems from starving herself (due to being dumped for the crime of being FIV). Both are better now. I suggest having a vet look at the toung, my vet though both of my purple toungs were pretty serious at the time. ron |
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