Please Help!! Cat Can't Breathe!!!

[Catlady711]

Hi, I am here reading and I thought I would tell you that my kitty "Lorraine" has the same problem. Here is a like that I think can be helpful in understanding the possible problem.

http://www.holisticvetpetcare.com/co...ilure-lung.htm

As you have, I tried everything for Lorraine with very minimal results. At our local health food store the woman who owns it is an avid pet lover and is very much against vaccinations for pets because of the long term effects. I told her how everything else the vet has done has NOT worked and she said to start Lorraine on a diet of wet cat food that is completely "Grain free" and give Lorraine as much green raw vegetables as she will eat. The funny thing when she said this to me was that every time I would put Lorraine out on my bedroom deck, Lorraine would reach to eat the leaves on the trees. She explained that Lorraine knew her body was lacking chlorophyll. It just so happened that I grew a herb garden this year so I started putting lots of cut up parsley in here food. To my amazement she eats every bit of it!!! I also give her fresh basil, broccoli and green beans (RAW) in her grain free cat food.

I must tell you that this isn't an over night fix but slowly she has shown improvement and I can say she has shown more improvement then she did with all the vet's treatment. This link also hit me with the fact that pets teeth decay have a lot to do with their heart and lung health. The first thing the vet said when I brought Lorraine in was how awful her teeth are.

I hope this helps. I am also going to try the sauna method I read online. Putting the pet in a carrier and leaving a pan of boiling water in front of the cage with a towel over the cage and pan of water for 20 minutes. I wonder if some herbs in the water would help as well. It's worth trying at least once.

Good luck ....

Welcome to PetTalk.

Just wanted to let you know that this thread is over a year old, and Tiger has since passed away.

[Catty1]

Thanks, Catlady.

I PM'd her yesterday as well, and gave her a couple of links to look up if she wanted.

[Emeraldgreen]

I must say, I was sure surprised when I saw this thread with a new post! Thank you very much Angelkitty for your suggestions but as mentioned by Catlady and Catty1, Tiger has since passed away (August 1st, 2008).
It turned out in the end that he was battling Squamous Cell Carcinoma and had a tumour removed. It was actually removed 4 times but grew back very aggressively each time. I did have a whole year with him which Iam very grateful for.
I do appreciate your post and I'm going to use some of your suggestions for my dog Finnigan! He is a real nut for vegetables and doesn't like meat very much. I'm now wondering if he might be 'low' in chlorophyll. I will add some parsley and other veggies to his diet and how he does. Thanks.

p.s. I hope that your cat Lorraine will continue to improve and do well. Take care.

p.p.s. I found this picture of Tiger recently and I didn't want to start a new thread just to post it so maybe I'll just include it with this one. I had mentioned in my very last thread about Tiger that my favourite memory of him was of him racing from apple tree to apple tree at our old house. I couldn't believe my eyes when I found a picture of him in mid-air after bolting from from one of the trees. I'll include it here if anyone wants to see it. I hope he is having as much fun at Rainbow Bridge as he was the day this pic was taken back in 2004.

[Moesha]

I'm so glad to see more pictures and posts about Tiger. I sure miss that little big guy!

[tkocianic]

Hi everybody,

Looking for some good advice.

I have a kitty, 13 years old and otherwise in good health, who is having trouble breathing through her nose (vet thinks it's polyps). She can mouth breathe, but sounds raspy. I don't think she is really eating or drinking and I think maybe she is having trouble because she can't eat/drink and breathe at the same time.

Vet has given injections of a steroid and a long acting antibiotic and she is on Sub-Q fluids for dehydration and B12 to stimulate appetite. This has been a seasonal issue for her for years, but now it is more severe, constant, and the steroids don't seem to be working (it used to be that she got her shots every 3-6months when she sounded snuffley and was 100% fine and had no breathing troubles in between).

Anyone know of a specialist in Ohio. My vet says the only surgical option is to open her skull, but it sounds from this old post like there might be some other way to remove the polyps.

Does anybody have any bright ideas at all of anything else we can do?

[Medusa]

Hi everybody,

Looking for some good advice.

I have a kitty, 13 years old and otherwise in good health, who is having trouble breathing through her nose (vet thinks it's polyps). She can mouth breathe, but sounds raspy. I don't think she is really eating or drinking and I think maybe she is having trouble because she can't eat/drink and breathe at the same time.

Vet has given injections of a steroid and a long acting antibiotic and she is on Sub-Q fluids for dehydration and B12 to stimulate appetite. This has been a seasonal issue for her for years, but now it is more severe, constant, and the steroids don't seem to be working (it used to be that she got her shots every 3-6months when she sounded snuffley and was 100% fine and had no breathing troubles in between).

Anyone know of a specialist in Ohio. My vet says the only surgical option is to open her skull, but it sounds from this old post like there might be some other way to remove the polyps.

Does anybody have any bright ideas at all of anything else we can do?

I'm not sure why this is posted here. I'd suggest moving it by starting your own thread so that more people see it. That said...

My cat Yoda has had a polyp removed twice. Both started in her ear; the first one grew down into her throat and the other grew down into her ear canal. The first one my vet was able to laser out. For the second one, he had to open her up a bit. The problem w/polyps is that unless you get the "head", ie., the root, it will grow back and even then, there's no guarantee that another one won't develop. Yoda has had 5 five years between polyps so I opt for surgery.

In what part of Ohio are you located? I live in Ohio as well and my vet is the absolute best. I told him that I forbid him to retire. Many vets have neither the experience nor the surgical instruments to do such surgery but my vet does. So if it isn't too far for you to go, you can PM me and I'll be happy to pass on his name, address and phone number and answer any questions you may have. I'd at least see him for a second opinion. Whatever the case, that polyp MUST come out b/c it will only continue to grow and, God forbid, if it grows upward into her brain, then there won't be too much you can do for her. Time is of the essence b/c they grow quickly.

I hope I didn't frighten you but I want to stress how important it is for you to move as quickly as possible on this. I do hope you'll PM me. And above all, keep the faythe.