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Cat Forum / General Topics / September 2006One very sick vommitting cat - please help or give any ideas
My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to help her not throw up? She has become so thin, only weighs around 1.8 kg. I have not changed her food,she has been eating the same food for years. I took her to the vet yesterday, he did some blood tests on her and also took some x-ray, but found nothing wrong with her. He said he could operate on her (open her up inside) and have a look, but I am just afraid that she won't survive surgery. Plus who know if they will find anything even if they open her up :~( Please help me, I love my cat. She have been my best friend for the last 10 years and I don't want to lose her, but I also don't want her to suffer. What should I do now? How can I make her better? Any ideas, help is much appreciated. Yve Another vet is necessary Also to get her to eat something try gravy foods they also sell just gravy at most pet stores > My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time > she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Yve I would find another vet as someone else mentioned. Before my 17 year old Moses passed on he would keep nothing down and the vet gave him meds to help his stomach and help keep food down which we had to give like 1/2 hour before he ate. It eventually did not help and he was eating like 4 - 5 cans of food a day and bringing most of it back up before he passed on. He had thyroid, liver and other problems and finally left us for the bridge. My furbabies http://members.aol.com/larrystark/ >Another vet is necessary > >Also to get her to eat something try gravy foods they also sell just >gravy at most pet stores >> My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time >> she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> >> Yve > Another vet is necessary > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > help her not throw up? She has become so thin, only weighs around 1.8 > > kg. 1.8 kgs.!? I would not wait and get her to another vet ASAP. And also agree with Matt about getting some nurioushing liquids in her. Could be a bowel obstruction of some sort. But you need a vet that will give you answers. > My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time > she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Yve I agree with Matthew - you should get the opinion of a second vet. In the meantime, try her on scrambled egg. This is often advised by vets as a post-operative meal because it's easy to digest. My cats enjoy prawns or grilled chicken livers as an *occasional treat*, so you may wish to try these. However, they are hardly a balanced meal for a healthy cat, let alone a sickly one, so limit these to testing your cat's temptation muscles! Most important of all, make sure she's drinking enough fresh water. I do hope you get some helpful vetinary advice soon. Good luck. Do let us know how you get on. Spider || My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time || she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] || || Yve Try scrambled egg or some cooked chicken and she if she will take some conditioning tablets. I know someone that gives her cat small portions of kitten food. If you manage to get her to eat something give it a very small dash of olive oil.  Signature"A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse, I haven't had a winner in six months". MD || My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time || she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] || || Yve This is only a longshot but I guess any suggestion is welcome if it can help in any way, my cat gets sick from eating grass and I had a stray cat who was sick due to a tapeworm. In his case though he would not stop eating, the best thing to do is to get another opinion off another vet, vets like doctors and construction workers can all make mistakes or give the wrong prognosis. I hope you manage to find a remedy. B07 > || My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time > || she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > B07 Thanks for all your help. The vet did a full blood test on her, and also 4 or 5 X-ray he couldn't find anything wrong. He think she have stomach cancer, but he wasn't very confident, so he wanted to operate on her (i.e open her up) and have a look inside. My cat is very old, and weak, so the chance of her surviving the operation is not good, and plus who know if the vet can find anything wrong with her. I follow some of your suggestion, feeding her (special vetinary cat food) a little (1 tea spoon) in every couple of hours. She is able to hold those food down. I also gave her some lactose free milk, and she drank it too. I will also take her to another vet for second opinion. Thank you all for your help/advise. It's much appreciated. <yborov@hotmail.com> wrote in message > Thanks for all your help. The vet did a full blood test on her, and > also 4 or 5 X-ray he couldn't find anything wrong. He think she have > stomach cancer, but he wasn't very confident, so he wanted to operate > on her (i.e open her up) and have a look inside. My cat is very old, > and weak, so the chance of her surviving the operation is not good, and > plus who know if the vet can find anything wrong with her. How about an ultrasound? They can find certain types of tumours (masses). I had a cat like that and she had a hyperactive thyroid. She lost and lost weight and vomited every day like your cat is. I would make sure the tests that were done included a thyroid test. > My adult cat (nearly 10 years old) is throwing up her food every time > she eat for the past few weeks. It's not hairballs..what can i do to [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Yve Did your vet do a T4 test? Sounds like a thyroid problem.....which could be a very serious problem. Make sure a T4 and a creatinine check was included in that test. Don't ignore this problem. Look for signs of extreme thirst, irritability, restlessness, frequent trips to the poo box, & general malaise. <snip> Hi all, Thanks for all your advice, but unfortunately my cat die last week. I was really devasted, and I think the *&*SAk&**(*#(* vet didn't do enough to diagnose her problem. The vet charge me $500 and gave me no answer as to what is wrong with my cat. &*@#$*(&*()* vet !!! > Hi all, > > Thanks for all your advice, but unfortunately my cat die last week. I > was really devasted, and I think the *&*SAk&**(*#(* vet didn't do > enough to diagnose her problem. The vet charge me $500 and gave me no > answer as to what is wrong with my cat. &*@#$*(&*()* vet !!! I'm so sorry--it's always hard to lose them but not to know what happened with her must make it worse. Did the vet suggest doing a necropsy? Bonnie |
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