Some vets don't like to use Zithromax... we have to get it at our pharmacy, but it works great! Well worth a try if nothing else has worked. Clavamox is notorious for upset tummies...
Leslie =^..^=
On 11/9/06, Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michelle, I'm so sorry to hear this. Deep breath. Okay. We know that she had a URI that wasn't treated to completion. And that she has IBD. The appetite, stool, and eye *could* be something else, but there is enough going on here to suspect that it's still the IBD and URI. The danger with not treating to completion with antibiotics is that you've naturally selected out the weaker bacteria (those that were killed in the four days of Clavamox) and left those that were hardy enough to make it through the four days, but likely wouldn't have made it through the entire course. Your decision to take her off was a good one (in my opinion), because of how runny her stool got, and there is always the hope that the immune system will finish off the work that the antibiotic didn't as it was given a head start with the antibiotic.Clavamox doesn't seem like the right thing to go back to. Someone mentioned Zithromax. Is there a atomic bomb type antibiotic? Something that just knocks the crap out of the URI, but quickly? My thought is that any new thing to her system will aggravate the IBD, so if you have to introduce something, try to lessen it's course - I don't know if there is an antibiotic that has a shorter course by design.Is bloody stool normal for IBD?It's wonderful that she doesn't have a temp and that she got some food into her, the wan appetite could be attributed to inhibited smell, as someone mentioned.I don't know if this helped or just let you know that you're not alone in not knowing.I'll be thinking of you both, good luck. I hope that the vet visit goes well.
Leslie
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lucy very sick again
I know she must seem like a yoyo or rollercoaster at this point, but please
say prayers for Lucy. She has been extremely lethargic since yesterday and
today only ate 1/2 a jar of baby food. She is a bit stuffed up and her nose is a
little bubbly, so I am hoping it is just the cold she has not shaken. I have
a vet aptmt tomorrow at 1 to get her an I-R shot. She had some blood on her
bowels today too. I am hoping that she just has not shaken the cold and it is
bothering her, and that the change to baby food and getting cold meds is just
irritating her IBD. But she has some weird things, too. Like if I pet her
head or kiss it in certain spots where I usually do, she closes one eye and keeps
it closed for a while like something is wrong with it. About 1/2 hour ago she
also pawed at her eye like it was hurting right after I pet her. It makes me
worry there is something like a tumor in her head or something. Has anyone
seen this symptom related to a cold, or to anything else?
She came off clavamox after only 4 days due to it giving her bad diarrhea,
but she seemed to recover except for a slight sniffle and occasional sneezes.
Then she really backslid starting yesterday. No fever, and in fact her temp
today was low for her-- 100.8-- though still in low normal range.
Please send her prayers and energy, and let me know if any thoughts come to
mind about what could be going on or what I should do.
Thanks,
Michelle
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Leslie =^..^=
To leave the world a better place - whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or an improved social condition - that is to have succeeded. That only one life breathed easier because you lived - that is success.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
