What's the Best Way to help Bobby?

[Laura's Babies]

Wow! A cat taking allergy shots.. I feel sorry for your baby with those allergies, I am the Allergy Queen myself so I know how miserable that is.

Have you tired air just keeping him in a small room with a Air Purifier during his flare up times of the year? I would try getting one twice as big as what I thought I needed and maybe having one to clean the air would help him? Poor baby, I just feel so sorry for him. All he knows is he is miserable and don't know why.

[kb2yjx]

I am so sorry to read that Bobby's allergies have gotten worse!!!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Did it all come back when you stopped the prescription food?

Poor little fella. I agree that the air purifier might help ease his discomfort

[kimlovescats]

Poor itchy boy! I think the closed room with a purifier sounds like a good thing to at least try! That and maybe putting him back on his RX food! Good luck!

[emily_the_spoiled]

If the chlortripolon helped a bit, would it help to increase the dose? There are also a number of other antihistamines you might want to try before going the route of allergy shots. (Although I don't know enough about FIV+ cats to recommend any)

[Freedom]

Brody's Mum, I stopped the prescription food in January and he didn't break out until late April. We had one warm week and I had the windows open. So it is definitely not a food allergy. Plus, the blood serum tests did not show ANY allergies to food!

I don't know about keeping him in one room. He and the 3 young ones are all over the house and cellar with their play and wrestling. He won't even EAT alone in one room! Plus, how would I keep that room cool?

An air purified may help, but not once the windows are open. He is quite sensitive. Just having the windows open one day for 2 hours and he was going crazy with the itchies. Lick lick, scratch, scratch, tufts of fur out, and hives all over from neck to tail.

Emily, he was on the maximum dose of chlor tri me ton for his weight last year. There are others we could try however, they made little impact last year and I want to try to prevent him getting as sore as he was!

Thanks for all the thoughts, everyone.

[Medusa]

If Bobby can't take depo shots, am I correct in assuming that he can't take Prednisolone, too? My Creamsicle is on Pred and no more itchy scabs. She was getting monthly depo shots but that became tedious so she's on Pred every other day.