Michelle,
It sounds like a good plan, hopefully the only frustration will be in waiting the URI out. Are the antibiotics for the URI, or just to protect from a secondary infection anyway? So the vet attributed the eye closing to the cold? I hope that that symptom goes away soon.
I'm really interested to see how the IR helps her.
Good that she ate some turkey and groomed herself, those are heartening signs.
Leslie
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Subject: Re: Lucy very sick again
My vet mentioned zithro and said it does not usually cause GI symptoms, but
that she got so sick from the clavamox that he is afraid to try any strong abx
right now. We gave her .25 ml of Immuno-Regulin today, which is a pretty
low dose but he has never used it before and did not feel comfortable starting
out higher. He thinks it won't do anything anyway, because there are no
studies saying it does, but I know that it helps sometimes. She came home and
had loose stool for the first time in a week, I think because all she has been
eating is baby food, which is not great for her IBD. But then she ate a few
pieces of her normal cooked turkey food, warmed up, and groomed herself,
which she also was not doing the past two days. She did the eye thing again,
though, after not doing it since last night-- I kissed her head near her eye
(not on it though) and she kept the eye closed for a minute or so afterwards.
The vet thinks we are just dealing with a URI that needs stronger treatment
than her intestines can handle, so we are walking a fence. I think if the
I-R and fluids and TLC don't start clearing up her nose in the next few days,
though, I am going to try Amoxicyllin and see if it can help her beat the URI
without trashing her intestines.
Thanks,
Michelle
Thanks, Leslie. Frank blood (bright red blood) on the outside of stool does
happen with IBD when the problem is in the lower part of the intestines,
which is what she has. So occasionally, when she is having a flare-up, she gets
that. Often, like this time, it is the precursor to getting loose stool or
diarrhea.
michelle
