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Allergies, Linear Granuloma, and Diet
Cheeky has asthma--presented with it the day I brought her home from
the shelter. Very scary attacks which we control with shots. I wait as long as I can i.e. until she coughs or sniffles, to take her in because I know that steroid use can cause diabetes and a host of other problems. She is currently having 3-4 shots per year.She is a 7-pound grey-brown mackerel tabby, age about three, sweetest creature in the world. :0) Took her in for her her "depo" shot (what they call it, it is cortisone, I think?) yesterday. I asked the doctor to check her out because I had noticed some tiny bumps on her nose and the back of one of her legs, along the tendon. He said it is linear granuloma, and explained that it is a syndrome, not life threatening, controlled by cortisone (in other words, exactly what we are doing now.) (He also said the linear kind is rare--that he sees maybe 40 cases of the "rodent ulcer" syndrome a year, and of those, maybe one linear granuloma case. I guess we're just lucky--and I actually mean that because I am so relieve this is not something life threatening.) Then I went to Google and read all the posts I could from this and all the other cat groups and I see that LG can really bother them, cause them to scratch themselves raw and be very uncomfortable. Here is what I would like to know: has anyone out there fed a cat with asthma/Linear granuloma a diet that had really seemed to help keep the masses/lesions to a minimum? I would like to do what I can to make sure Cheeks doesn't suffer. Also, are there allergy tests for cats? It seems to me that if I could keep her from the things she is allergic to she might not get the bumps or asthma as much? Any help is much appreciated. |
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