Re: question about IBD and anemia

2007-01-20 Thread Lernermichelle
Thank you, please do ask her. Lucy won't eat her raw now anyway, so is on i/d, which she will eat, which is the prescription food for ibd. ironically, it is giving her loose bowels. her ibd does not do well on the prescription diet. which worries me. However, this diet is specially

Re: question about IBD and anemia

2007-01-20 Thread Belinda
Michelle, I believe she said it her guess was that it was an adenocarcinoma tumor, I talked with her today about the fevers and she said that she would be looking for the same things, cancer and infections. I told her you were waiting for the rest of the test results. She also told me

Re: question about IBD and anemia

2007-01-20 Thread Lernermichelle
Thanks. She has not been tested for those. Toxo usually causes bad diarrhea, though, and salmanella causes incredible distress including vomiting. I believe e coli does as well. Lucy doesn't have those signs, thank goodness. I asked about those diseases the last time she was sick with a

question about IBD and anemia

2007-01-19 Thread Lernermichelle
So I have this new theory that maybe Lucy's symptoms result from IBD and a URI. I read in Merck vet manual (I think-- it is written for vets so technical and hard to understand) that IBD can cause anemia and fluid distension in the stomach. Anemia can cause heart murmer and enlargement

Re: question about IBD and anemia

2007-01-19 Thread Belinda
This is know is true, my vet mentioned it today because Fred had a heart murmur today something he's never had before and he is and has been slightly anemic for a while now (28% last blood work three weeks ago). Remember too Bailey was anemic, no fluid in the belly but his anemia was

Re: question about IBD and anemia

2007-01-19 Thread Lernermichelle
How would you have treated the pancreatitis had you known? In a message dated 1/19/2007 11:13:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remember too Bailey was anemic, no fluid in the belly but his anemia was symptomatic of his undiagnosed pancreatitis which ended up being

Re: question about IBD and anemia

2007-01-19 Thread Belinda
A friend of mine whose kitty would have pancreatitis attacks frequently but not so much now that they have figured out what works for her, gives her cat higher doses of prednisolone when she has an attack, this cat has been on prednisolone for many years because of it (over 7 years I