Multiple Remedies
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I went on holiday for two months leaving both of my male cats in a cattery. From the moment I picked them up from cattery and got home, my 'Fraidie' cat started spending huge amounts of time on the kitty litter and I took him straight away to the vet. He was diagnosed with UTI brought on by the stress of going to cattery and being away from home. Two sets of anti-inflamatories later (which worked great for about 4 days then back to blood in the urine and him squatting everywhere and being in pain and unhappy) and the third time he got dehydrated and went floppy and I raced him to vet and $600 later for a day at the vet, blood test, drip, medicine etc, she just gave him painkillers and sent him home. So I have spent over $1000 US in the last 8 weeks.
At this time I found this site and I was so grateful. It's been almost 3 weeks and he is back to normal, healthy with no further problems.
What I did:
- I changed his water to filtered water.
- I fee him normal wet food BUT with chicken mince (which holds a lot of water in it) mixed in.
- Only feed hard biscuits as a treat and they are special ones for UTI.
- Each morning I make up a small mixture of 1/4 tsp ACVinegar with 2 tsp of water. I give him about a tea spoon of it in a mouth syringe and then mix the rest in with the chicken wet food mixuture.
- ALSO mixed in wet food once a day is 250mg crushed vitamin c and 250 mg crushed cranberry tablets.
- And he is looking wonderful and happy with no further problems.
- I will stop giving him some by mouth in the next week and just put a little bit of that ACV and water mixure in his food.
If I get a recurrence, I will up the mixture again. I hope you also have some success with this as it was very traumatic to see my little guy in so much pain.
Pau D'Arco
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A couple years ago my cat had a urinary tract infection (I assumed - he was peeing all around the house right in front of me and there would be little if any urine and blood in it). I took him off of dry food and put some drops of Pau D'Arco Herbal Glycerite Extract into his water bowl. Within a day his behaviour changed and his kitty litter box was put to good use. He went back to being the happy crazy cat he was before - and I no longer get cheap dry food! He's never had another infection in the past couple years and he has a preference for dry food. I probably put about 10 drops or so of the extract (mine was alcohol free and from Herb Pharm) into his bowl and kept him inside to make sure he wouldn't get water from another source.... but that was about 2 years ago so I'm not sure on the exact amount.
Test Cat for Mycoplasma Haemofelis
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(Mpls., Mn)
08/18/2017
Thank you for sharing this information. A link for more info: https://www.vetary.com/cat/condition/mycoplasma-infection
Vitamin C
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(Seattle, WA)
08/22/2008
Hi. My kitty has been having crystals recently, and the methioform chewables seem to help, and she takes them like a treat. This week she had a relapse, and I adjusted her dosage, then took her in so the vet could check the urine. She was feeling better, and the pH was good. Anyway, I was asking him about cranberry supplements, and he said that was probably a good idea, but to be sure there was not added vitamin C, because it could contribute to the oxalate crystals, that occur in urine that is too acidic. There are so many different opinions out there on this topic, its hard to say what's right for our kitties. I just thought I'd let you know what my vet said today. Good luck!
