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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / February 2004Advice needed: male cat with urinary tract infection
Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither has cleared it up. I am pretty upset with the treatment he has received because I don't the doctor has been agressive enough. last week after another urinalysis, the vet said to just continue him on the baytril. I refused and brought him to the office for further treatment options. This was last Friday. he was kept overnight and given x rays and further urinalysis to grow a culture to see just what is going on. This is Tuesday Night and I have yet to be called back with the results. The vet is usually very poor about returning phone calls and I only get to talk to the office help. What should I do? By now, I have no faith in the vet or his concern for animals. I'm scared for my cat. how long does it take to grow a culture? Thanks for listening. Please offer advice > Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last > September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > culture? > Thanks for listening. Please offer advice Did your vet suggest changing food type to canned or changing to a special diet designed for this? Assuming your vet diagnosed the type of crystal by examining it in the microscope - did you determine if the crystals were struvite or calcium oxalate? What were you feeding the cat prior to the infection? > > Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last > > September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > struvite or calcium oxalate? What were you feeding the cat prior to the > infection? My cat eats only dry food: 3 kinds: dental diet, hairball diet, and urinary tract diet. he drinks distilled water. don't know about crystals because I don't know if they were ever addressed. When i take in a urine sample I hear that there is still bacteria and blood in the urine. Just continue the baytril this is wednesday--x rays and a culture were done last Friday or Saturday morning. The vet has not called me back. I will robably take him elsewhere but we live in a small town and I don't have many options. I will probably have to take him to the nearest big city. anyone know a top notch vet in Buffalo, Ny? >From: tsedinger@yahoo.com (Theresa) >My cat eats only dry food: 3 kinds: dental diet, hairball diet, and >urinary tract diet. I would definitely switch him to a high quality canned food. You may have to first start the switch slowly if he's reluctant to eat the wet, by moistening the dry food until he gets used to the wet consistency. Then slowly add some canned to the moistened dry food, until you eventually have all canned food. Here's a very good article on dry cat food: http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm <SNIP> >My cat eats only dry food: 3 kinds: dental diet, hairball diet, and >urinary tract diet. he drinks distilled water. don't know about [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >him to the nearest big city. anyone know a top notch vet in Buffalo, >Ny? I don't think you want to give a cat distilled water. Do a Google search on it, but here's a sample: : http://makeashorterlink.com/?F10422167 > > > Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last > > > September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > urinary tract diet. he drinks distilled water. don't know about > crystals because I don't know if they were ever addressed. Crystals can irritate, inflame and actually cut into the bladder/urethra and cause hematuria. I can't imagine how a vet could examine urine for bacteria and not see crystals in the sample if any were present.... Although after reading about the gross incompetence of some vets reported by a few posters, I guess its possible.... :-/ When i take > in a urine sample I hear that there is still bacteria The samples may be contaminated. Urine samples that will be examined for bacteria and cultured should be obtained via cystocentesis (directly from the bladder) to avoid contamination with bacteria that normally inhabit the distal urinary tract. and blood in the > urine. Bleeding is usually caused by mucosal inflammation/irritation from crystals/calculi, or from tearing the bladder mucosa from straining to urinate or from overdistention of the bladder --particularly in males cats with urethral obstruction. Cats with interstitial cystitis often have hematuria because they frequently strain to urinate. The inflammation associated with IC causes a nervous sensation that mimics the sensation that's normally caused by a full bladder. The nervous impulses that control urination are repeatedly stimulated so that the urge to urinate is constant whether the bladder is full or empty What about WBCs? Did your vet find WBCs in the urine along with the bacteria? What are`the symptoms other than hematuria? Phil > > "Steve Crane" <eodemolay@coxnospam.net> wrote in message > news:<QOdWb.22962$EW.13174@okepread02>... [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] > > Phil Mcduffy has twice had urine taken directly from him. Crystals have never been mentioned. Just bacteria and blood. I will call tomorrow to ask about crystals being eing present. Also, thanks to this group, I went out and bought huge quantities of Wellness food. It should be interesting to wean him over to wet food. He's a stubborn cuss. There are no other apparent symptoms. After the initial straining to urinate 6 mos. ago, he seems fine. Just the blood and bacteria reported in his urine by the vet. He is still on an antibiotic--CHPC. If you don't mind--what are WBCs? thank you. circa 15 Feb 2004 13:38:21 -0800, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Theresa (tsedinger@yahoo.com) said, > -what are WBCs? White blood cells. Laura  SignatureI am Dyslexia of Borg, Your a.s will be laminated. If you have lost confidence in your vet, you may want to take your cat to another vet for a second opinion. Sue > Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last > September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > culture? > Thanks for listening. Please offer advice circa 10 Feb 2004 15:25:00 -0800, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Theresa (tsedinger@yahoo.com) said, > Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last > September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > culture? > Thanks for listening. Please offer advice There is a stronger antibiotic called zeniquan or zeniquin. It has worked well for Jacob's UTIs, for which he needed the extra-potent antibiotic. The fact that your vet is culturing the urine is actually good, as it can help in the choice of antibiotic. Laura SignatureI am Dyslexia of Borg, Your a.s will be laminated. >From: tsedinger@yahoo.com (Theresa) >Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last >September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >culture? >Thanks for listening. Please offer advice I'm sorry to hear about your cat. I hope the vet has suggested a diet change for your cat and hopefully to feed a canned food instead of dry food. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm Hi My cat had a UTI every year since he was 6 years old (he died at 14.5 years old). He had been seen by 7 different vets, had his urine tested, blood tested, bladder x-rayed, and none of them could find the cause. After all that, I just had to manage his symptoms, and give up on trying to identify and prevent the cause. In the end I stopped taking him to the vet, and just arranged to pick up his pills each time he started peeing blood :-) Are the antibiotics being stopped and started - ie a week or two of treatment, then the UTI comes back, so you start on the pills again? I found that 1-3 weeks of antibiotics didnt work and the UTI returned quickly, but an extended treatment of 6 weeks straight would clear the UTI up (at least for 12 months). Canned food made no difference as it gave him the runs, and did not prevent the return of the UTI. Changing from dry to wet foods is usually only useful if the cause is crystals (which it doesnt sound like it is). Good luck. Karyn > Please help. My male cat has had a urinary tract infection since last > September. The vet has treated him with Baytril and Clavamax. neither [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > culture? > Thanks for listening. Please offer advice > Hi > My cat had a UTI every year since he was 6 years old (he died at 14.5 [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > culture? > > Thanks for listening. Please offer advice My thanks to everyone for the excellent suggestions. McDuffy is now onCHPC an antibiotic that he hasn't had before. I will definitely change his diet to wet food. Wellness brand has been recommended as has a regular schedulle of feeding, and more frequentchanges of litter boxes, and just plain more litter boxes. Also, acourse of treatment has been mentioned--cosequin??. I live in a small town, in the middle of nowhere, so it will take some time to order everything but I really look forward to making these changes for the good of McDuffy and his other 5 friends. I know I'll have healthier, and happier cats. If anyone else has anything else to offer, you don't know how much I appreciate the advice. Thank you.
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