Sabrina is vomiting white foam! **update Fri. 10/23/08**

[kittykatharine]

I hope that Ms. Sabrina is able to have her bowel movement, so that she doesnt have to go to your work tommorrow. I also hope that her belly feels better and she isnt vomiting any longer. Positive vibes being sent your guys ways!

[Catlady711]

Ok so here's the update scoop.

Sabrina did poop sometime last night or early this morning!

However.....

I still took her to work with me because she didn't eat overnight and I found more piles of the hair and white foam vomit, and she didn't want to eat again.

The vet looked her over and felt her abdomen, she was cleaned out, no more poop inside. The poop she did pass was soft which is good, so the enema and lactulose must have softened it.

Her vet agreed with the ER vet that it probably wasn't anything she might have gotten into or swallowed based on the xrays and her symptoms.

We force fed her a little bit of canned A/D. That went pretty good considering Sabrina's normal personality at the vets office (I put a caution label on her file myself). She managed to keep that down this morning and I just brought her home and force fed her some more A/D. So far she's keeping that down but I'll have to check her again to make sure.

Her vet said that if she keeps vomiting or not eating then we'll have to probably do some lab work and dig a bit deeper trying to find out what's causing her tummy to be so upset.

Thank you again for the support and prayers. Please keep them coming for my furbaby, she's never really been sick before and meowme is worried about her.

[Medusa]

So it's a good news/bad news scenario, more good than bad, though. We'll keep the prayers coming......

[Catlady711]

Well she kept down what I force fed her this afternoon, and did manage to eat about 5 crunchies on her own.

I force fed her again small amounts twice this evening and so far everything is staying down. I know it's not nearly enough food for her but the vet said not to let her eat a whole bunch anyways yet because it may upset her tummy again.

She has a water fountain in the room and she must be drinking because I've cleaned out a couple pee clumps from her litterbox. I wish I could monitor her drinking better but that's difficult to do with a cat. At least with the canned A/D I know she's getting some water in that in addition to whatever she's drinking. The vet didn't seem to think she was dehydrated so that's good. I was worried about that with all the vomiting she did.

I don't get it, she acts hungry, is acting perky today, wants to play, is purring, in all other aspects acting normal, she just doesn't want to eat on her own. Even when I force feed her she's not thrilled about it, but she doesn't really spit the food out either. Oh well, at this point just getting food to stay down is the big thing.

I hope whatever is wrong with her goes away soon and I can let her back out into the house with the rest of the cats. She's so lonely in there and the other cats keep hanging around the door like 'mommy why is Sabrina in kitty jail?'. Makes me feel guilty for some reason.

Anyways thank you again for the support and prayers. It must be working because the food is staying down. YAY.

[Craftlady]

Skinny had tummy issues early spring and he was given a tummy medication for a week. Settled his tummy and no more foam vomiting.
His diagnosis was gastritis (spell?). His appretite never left him and thankfully he never upchucked food.

[jazzcat]

Glad her food is staying down. Prayers and positive thoughts that she keeps on the road to recovery.

[kittykatharine]

That is wonderful the food is staying down. I know force feeding our babies can be very rough. I have had to do this before and I know it causes mixed feelings - just remeber you are helping her and it is important she keeps food in her belly. Hang in there Sabrina!