RE: My baby Tsubomi is in trouble - please help! - michelle

[Hideyo Yamamoto]

Thank you michelle, I was hoping that you would respond to me – she is on carafate already, but since she is no longer vomiting or having bloody stools, I don’t think she has an internal bleeding.. I don’t know.. I did read when a cat is severe anemia, they will vomit blood and have bloody stools as blood get too concentrated and I feel that that’s what happened –  She no longer has high fever – again I am giving her interferon right now –   I have given epogen and predisolone also – but again,, I am  just not sure –I may give her lasix as she has a bit difficult time breathing after she moves around or get streesed out.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:34 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: My baby Tsubomi is in trouble - please help!   Hideyo, it sounds like she is anemic from losing blood, which means that no medicine is going to help her unless it stops the bleeding. If she has a bleeding ulcer, she should be given Carafate, which is a medicine that seals up ulcers.  Prednisone can make ulcers worse.  If she has a bleeding tumor, nothing will help unless the tumor stops bleeding, which sometimes happens.   I would ask for Carafate and maybe do an ultrasound.  Some vets can do an edoscapy, which is a scope that does not cut into the body at all, and they need only light anesthesia for it.   The fever can come from having a reaction to the transfusion. Did they give her a benadryl shot? The hospital that did Simon's transfusions gave him one prophylactically before each transfusion I think.   Michelle   In a message dated 10/7/2006 2:22:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, one of my felk babies is in a serious trouble and I need your help – She was fine until very recently but noticed that something was wrong definitely this morning just the way she as sitting.. so I took her to the vet, and her PCV was 9.6 and took her to the emergency clinic and s had a traqnsfusion, she was fine right after the transfusion, now she is running fever of 106.8.. I am assuming that it is reaction from transfusion.  Prior to the transfusion, she vomited very think blood and tons of it.. and now I saw tons of blood came from stool.. and I am very scared.. all the blood work was normal except high (50,000 range of WBC) – it could be cancer or it could be some type of infection.. she is on clavmox and I just gave her predisolone ---   Any insights are appreciated.. the vets are not really sure what’s directly causing it and I really didi not want her to continue to be checked out –I was thinking of giving her epogen though her kidney is fine, I thought it migh help anemia or at least it own’t hurt? Also I was going to start on interferon tomorrow.. please any insight is appreciated – she is just a sweet girl,, and I wanted to do everything I can to make her feel better.