Prayers for Decker please

[Grace]

Prayers and good thoughts headed your way.

Have you thought of trying cranberry powder? Candace said one of her cats was on it once and it helped. I'm giving it to Grady on a daily basis, and he's been fine since his one and only, though very long, episode with hematuria and crystals last spring.

[Catty1]

Grace, the cranberry was very useful - my vet said about 50mg a day for about a month.

However, Oscar was also on antibiotics for a month to get the very stubborn infection cleared up! The crystals went away almost immediately (there were very few), but he still had the blood in his urine for another 3 - 4 weeks. Poor baby!

In case it is of help to others I will give a few more details here:

The vet figured Oscar had 'idiopathic cystitis', which is mostly due to stress. Oscar had been wild for the first 2 1/3 -3 years of his life, and he had adjusted very well to being indoors and a total sucky boy! However, this infection flared up several months after Cole came to live with us. Oscar and Cole got along great - but as the vet pointed out, even GOOD stress is still stress.

That is why Oscar is on Feliway to this day - he wears a really stretchy collar, and gets a shot a day in it. (He is down from 2 - 3 shots several years ago). The vet suggested trannies - but thanks to Pet Talk, I had heard of this natural alternative, the vet went for it, and all is well!

More prayers that Decker is fine soon. Sometimes the anti-b's just take a while.

[jenluckenbach]

Prayers for poor Decker.

[Emeraldgreen]

How scary! I'm glad he is at the vet though and will receive the help he needs. I hope the vet will find the right medication to clear this up for Decker. He is probably missing you guys but hopefully he has a sense that he is getting help for what must be very uncomfortable and that might put him at ease a bit. Prayers going out that he sleeps soundly and that things get on the right track for him asap!

[Barbara]

Poor Decker-baby. Yeah, they will want to find out what exactly the bacteria is that causes the problem. Thus they cannot only attack it with a broadband stuff but with a more spceific med.
All the best for him.

[kt_luvs_kitties]

I am just so sorry Lori.

I will be praying for Decker, and keeping him in my thoughts

*HUGS* to Lori

[Killearn Kitties]

Oh no, poor baby. I hope they find something to help him soon.

[jazzcat]

He's home but my poor little semi feral guy is very scared and hiding under the bed. The vet was able to catch some urine over night and she's sent it out for a culture to determine exactly what it is. She said it would be Thursday before we get the results. His urine was filled with blood, poor little guy. In the meantime he's on a stronger antibiotic pill. Luckily I was able to wrap a soft Whisker Lickin treat around it and he ate it while hiding under the bed. Food is a motivator for him and I hope it stays that way.

This is the sick house. Richard is home from work for the second day with a bad virus. We thought it was the flu but the dr. said it's a cruddy virus going around. Poor guy has a fever of 101 right now. I'm just glad he doesn't feel the need to hide under the bed too, ha ha.

Thanks for the prayers for Decker. I will update when I hear back from the vet on Thursday.