allergies, audible breathing, stuffy nose

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QuiltsWithCatFur - 11 Nov 2005 07:29 GMT

Ever since we got her, my kitty has had a stuffy nose. She can paint an
entire room when she sneezes, mucus is thick, yellow, sometimes bloody. Her
breathing is audible and labored through all that mucus.
I have taken her to several several vets over the years, put her through
every test created for kitties, but still we have no reason for her stuffy
sinuses, so we just say she has some allergy to some unknown entity. All med
treatments have failed (steroids, antihistamine). I have removed everything
that I can think of from the house that might set off her sinuses. I even
used a Vicks vapor steamer, which also failed to help her.
What else can I try?
thanks

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Wayne Boatwright - 11 Nov 2005 13:38 GMT

On Fri 11 Nov 2005 12:29:01a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
QuiltsWithCatFur?

> Ever since we got her, my kitty has had a stuffy nose. She can paint an
> entire room when she sneezes, mucus is thick, yellow, sometimes bloody.
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> help her. What else can I try?
> thanks

Sounds like you've done just about everything, but perhaps one more visit
to a vet is in order. As a lifelong sinus sufferer myself, I know the
symptoms only too well. If your kitty's mucous is thick and yellow and
sometimes mixed with blood, this indicates an infection that probably needs
to be treated with antibiotics. Persistent allergic rhinitis can certainly
result in infections which remain chronic because the bacteria remain
trapped in clogged sinuses. Once the infection is cleared up, continuing
therapy with antihistimines may be the only way for her to remain symptom
free. To effectively clear up a bad sinus infection, she may need to take
a decongestant as well as an antihistimine while taking the course of
antibiotics. Please give the vet another try, and don't take "no" for an
answer if he trys to over-simplify her condition.

Best of luck, and please post back with her progress.

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~*Connie*~ - 11 Nov 2005 15:24 GMT

has a nasal polyp been ruled out?

> Ever since we got her, my kitty has had a stuffy nose. She can paint an
> entire room when she sneezes, mucus is thick, yellow, sometimes bloody.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> What else can I try?
> thanks

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QuiltsWithCatFur - 11 Nov 2005 15:46 GMT

"~*Connie*~" <no@spam.com>

> has a nasal polyp been ruled out?

no, it hasn't. the only vet that wanted to go in that direction also wanted
$108 for a test to determine if her mucus had bacteria in it or not, a $1000
catscan of her head, $450 worth of x-rays, and after all that, there was not
a good probability of getting us any nearer to a diagnosis. The vet wanted
more than $100 just to gas her enough to get a metal rod deep up her nose to
get a mucus sample...which she could get easily from the front of her nose,
or from any object in kitty's vicinity when she sneezes. (iamkidding) As the
vet added up all the numbers, which was only a low estimate, her eyes glazed
over, and she was transported to her special place. She was laying on a
sunny beach on the other side of the planet; her very own sailboat anchored
in the lagoon. Her shirtless, muscular, all-male crew, made up entirely of
off-season Peter Adonis members, were busy making sure that every breath of
oxygen she took in, every glistening bead of perspiration, every tan line on
her size 4 body was...perfect.
I am not going to put my baby through that. That is worse than the illness
itself.

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tsr3 - 13 Nov 2005 05:12 GMT

I agree with you. My Bart has the same problem, and has had nasal
congestion for years, which antibiotics, decongestants and
antihistamines have been useless treatments. On my last visit to the
vet, the good doctor recommended cat scans, and taking her to UT vet
school.

I'm just not going to put Bart through that horseshit.

I made that mistake (taking my last cat, Blackjack, to "specialists",
and it ended up killing him. Not going to let the vet school kill
Bart).

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