Definitely transfuse! There is no hope without it, even if the other
things would cure the anemia.
In terms of longer-term treatment, I personally would try acemannan.
It turned around two anemic cats on this list, and I think it is the only thing
that has completely reversed it for non-flea anemia in positive cats. I
have heard the same arguments against Epogen and they make sense theoretically,
but a couple of people on the list have found it to help a lot anyway.
Michelle
In a message dated 11/6/2006 2:17:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"He began losing weight about 2 weeks ago - gums pale as snow.
Blood work shows a hematocrit of 7 - almost not compatible with
life. He is still somewhat active - gets off the bed to go to the
litterbox and sometimes to the rest of the house. Will eat if I put food
in front of him. His vet thought we could get a remission until
the blood work came back. He is getting raw liver, Clindamycin,
5mg pred every day, PetTinic, interferon. I have immunoregulin and could
try that. I asked about Epogen and the way my vet explained it is
that with feline leukemia, where the bone marrow is basically "dead" and not
going to produce red cells, to give Epogen would be like knocking on the door
when nobody is home. We decided against blood transfusions due to
the stress and the short term result. Does anyone have
any ideas?"
With a hemocrit that low, I don't think there IS any
option, you MUST blood transfuse. The results are only short term IF he's not
producing any red blood cells from his marrow. If he's not to that point, the
transfusion might just give his body the boost it needs to "jump start" itself
back up. I'd at least do it ONCE, if his recovery does turn out to be short
term, THEN, consider not doing it again, and saying good bye, but you have to
TRY it once to KNOW if he's that far gone! Unless your vet did a bone marrow
TEST to KNOW that his FELV is that advanced, he's simply guessing, and
giving you "worst case scenario" rather than TRYING
anything.
Phaewryn
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