Poor Basie. Please feel better soon sweetie. Lots of prayers and positive thoughts coming your way.
Good to see you Kelly.
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Poor Basie. Please feel better soon sweetie. Lots of prayers and positive thoughts coming your way.
Good to see you Kelly.
(((hugs)))
Thanks again for the well wishes, guys. :)
He's sneezing a bit more today. So I turned the heater as well as the humidifier on to help him breath a bit better. I can still tell he isn't feeling very well - he might have sympathy pains for his dear Auntie CiCi, she was just diagnosed with pneumonia this afternoon! Poor things! :(
He's still hating the pilling thing. The better he feels, the more he fusses. That little nawtee kitty will keep the pill in his mouth till you let him go and he spits it out...mush and all! Bratty! So we're clamping his mouth shut and keeping him there for at least a minute so he HAS to swallow.
Poor Basie...constant torture from the hoomans. ;)
Thanks again for your concern. You guys always understand how worrisome it is when our furballs are ill. Feeling helpless is a understatement.
Hugs,
Kelly
Hey Kelly! Little tip . . . once you get that pill in Basie's mouth, hold his mouth shut and blow up his nose. He WILL swallow. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NoahsMommy
I am sorry to hear that you are having such troubles with him & the asthma. Josie has asthma also. We take her to get shots about every 4-6 weeks, whenever she starts coughing. I have no idea what the shot is called though. I'd have to look at an old invoice. We also have Preds on hand to give her over the weekends if she has an attack & the vet isn't open. I know how scary it is to have a kitty with breathing problems. We are thinking of you. {{{HUGS}}}
Kelly I'm just seeing this now. I'm so sorry to here about Basie. Hopefully he'll be feeling better soon. My RB terrier had fairly severe asthma that would flair up periodically. My vet put him on a human inhaler (I can't remember the name but can find out if you'd like from his records),after talking it over with a friend of hers from Davis (he was the first patient she tried it on because nothing else worked). It helped him quite a bit and she later told me since it had worked so well for him she had 2 of her other clients cats on the same thing and they were doing well. I cheated a bit and instead of buying the container to put of his nose like in the picture (since it's expensive) I took an old plastic spice container, cleaned it out and cut a hole that allowed me to put the inhaler in. It fit perfectly over his nose and worked just as well as the expensive ones. Hope he's feeling better soon.
Aw, poor Basie. :( Kelly, sorry but I have only just seen this, it's a bit late but he will be in my prayers for sure. {{hugs}}
The thing with Basie is, he moves the pill to the side of his mouth, almost UNDER his tongue. When he swallows, he swallows nothing. Little smarty brat, huh? ;) CiCi is the one who pills him and she's been a vet/surgical techfor nearly 10 years and even she says he's a pain in the butt.Quote:
Originally Posted by christa
The injections are probably some form of pred, like solu-medrol. I want to try the kitty inhaler first, but then injections may help too. When he was first diagnosed, he had a series of the injections for a while there and they did seem to help a bit. Thanks for the ideas, I'm sorry your little one has asthma as well. Do the injections seem to help her?
Great idea on the homemade spacer. I know they are a bit pricey. The medication for the inhaler is a human inhalent, called Flovent.Quote:
Originally Posted by pnance
Its really great to hear the inhaler helped your pup. I really hope it'll help Basie. I know he's been so miserable with all his wheezing and now his constant sneezing.
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Thursday Update:
Well, its been almost 5 days on his antibiotics and he still seems miserable...although the goo coming from his nose is much clearer now. I guess the infection is healing, but he's still battling asthma, allergies and the cold part of this whole thing. Poor baby. :(
When I got home from work, he kept sneezing. Each time he'd start a fit, he'd reach his paw to me, either to steady himself or just want to hold on. Isn't that pathetic?? I couldn't just let him "deal" with the constant sneezing - we're not talking *sneeze* *sneeze* *sneeze* this poor little guy sneezes AT THE VERY LEAST 20 times each fit. The fits sometimes are less than a minute apart!! :eek: I couldn't take it, I felt so bad watching him do that.
Dr. Hanser (his old vet) had prescribed him an anti-histamine about a year ago that you can buy over the counter. I went and bought that, along with a bottle of childrens benadryl. CiCi told me I could give him about 8mg. Yea, ever give a cat ICKY (to them, it smelled yummy cherry to me) syrup? Yea, my little sleek black kitty turned into a gross, drooly rottie!!! (drool=gross, rottie=not gross) Ugh, I forget how dramatic he is. ;)
It lasts for 4 hours, but I can tell, its helping tremendously. (I tortured him with it at 6:00 p.m.) He's only had 1 sneezing fit sinse he stopped his drama drooling. ;) Served mean ole meowmee right, he got that yucky drool EVERYWHERE!! ICK!
So, I think that when CiCi pills him with the Clav, I'll have her add the pills I got him as well. (another antihistamine)
:) So, I'm hoping these work. Poor Basie. Please keep him in your prayers?
Your right it was Flovent. I've also used the benedryl syrup which was interesting. Even using a syringe he ended up with a sticky red beard.. :rolleyes: Hope he's feeling better soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoahsMommy
Kelly, I'm sorry to hear that Basie's been having such bad sneezing attacks.:( I sure hope that the new meds will do the trick. More prayers are on the way.
poor Basil!
hugs to you both!
What a relief it must be for poor Basie and for you that the antihistamine is working. It's so hard seeing our babies sick like that.
I pray that he continues to do well on the medication.
((((((HUGS)))))) Kelly.
Thanks again for yout support and concern, guys. I know you understand my worries. To most people, he's "just a cat, deal with it", but he's my little guy and he's special. Seeing him feel so rotten breaks my heart. I'm so worried about him, I'm losing sleep. :(
CiCi tried the pill version antihistamine, but said he started frothing so badly (drama, not hurt or reaction. Just Basie being Basie), she had to wash his face for him. She's a sucker like me!!! ;)
Tomorrow, I'm going to try the Benadryl again, but use a popcicle stick to hold his tongue down while CiCi pours the liquid meds all the way DOWN his throat. If he froths, it'll be slobber, not medicine. I just know it'll help him feel better. And, it'll make him sleepy and he'll be able to heal that way too.
His kitty snot is all clear now, no more green/white. So that's good. But he's still sneezing, wheezing and coughing. :( Poor itty bitty!
Thanks again for humoring me with this. I know its just a URI, but with that asthma and horrid allergies, he's so much sicker. I'm terrified that he'll have an attack and I wont be able to help him. :(
Poor little Basie! How heartbreaking to read that he hates taking his meds!! Basie, sweetheart, they will help you to feel better! Please be a good boy and take your meds!
Kirsten
Poor Basie. :( Prayers continuing.