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1Feline fatty Liver Disease and Tube Feeding - How to Survive 1 Citation Again, the zero-carb post is on hold. Having a cat with fatty liver means pretty much everything is on hold - treatment really takes up most of your thoughts, and a lot of your time. The danger exists, then, for caregivers to get totally stressed and burned out, and that's no good. Whether it's an animal, a child, an elderly parent...caregivers need to take care of themselves, or else they can't take good care of their sickie. So, for all the puss lovers out there who may be dealing with a FHL, technorati.com
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How To Prevent Your Cat From Getting Overweight 1 Citation Have you been feeding your cat, a cat that has ballooned into a considerable size? You might think that a fat cat is cute but the sad truth is, a fat cat may not be healthy. If the cat you have is over weighted by 19% than the ideal weight of its breed, then your cat high risk of becoming a fat cat. According to many studies, a fat cat has shorter life span than a cat, which is just within the ideal weight bracket. Cats are just like human beings, when they get too fat, they become at risk of, technorati.com
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Herbs for Cats with Liver Disease -- Part I 1 Citation Should You Try Herbs for Liver Disease?I never used to think that cats could get liver diseases. Certainly not just because they stopped eating for a few days. But they do, they can get quite sick if they stop eating for a while, they can get hepatic lipidosis, or fatty liver disease. For symptoms and treatments, read "Could Your Cat Have Fatty Liver Disease."http://cat-tales-blog.blogspot.com/2008/05/feline-fatty-liver-disease.h tmlIf you?re a cat lover it?s gut-wrenching when your cat gets sick, technorati.com
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Haunted by a memory that isn?t mine 1 Citation A girl called Susan has been a part of my life for the past year. In recent weeks, as I have been immersed in her history, I almost felt I really knew her. Susan died more than thirty years ago, aged 22, of a rare degenerative brain disease called cerebral lipidosis. This is an umbrella term for a group of diseases, the better understood of which are named after the person who first described it like Tay-Sachs or Batten disease, though Susan?s was never definitively categorised. Just over a ye, technorati.com
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Could Your Cat have Fatty Liver Disease? 1 Citation You may never have heard of Feline Fatty Liver Disease -- but if you don't heed the tell-tale signs, it could cost you your cat's life!What's Feline Fatty Liver Disease?If your cat ever loses her appetite or stops eating altogether, you better take her to a vet fast! When a cat stops eating for an extended period of time ? say, about 2 weeks ? she may die from a condition called fatty liver disease. That?s when fat accumulates within the liver cells. The medical term for this condition is feline, technorati.com
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1 Citation Cleo playing with a mouse cat toy while recovering from feline hepatic lipidosisAbout three and a half years ago now, one of my cats, Cleo, became sick with fatty liver disease, also known as feline hepatic lipidosis. It turns out that when we got a dog, she stopped eating because she was afraid to go to her dish. Cats livers aren?t made to process fat stores, so basically her liver got bogged down with fat and stopped working. This condition makes the cat feel sick, so even though they need, technorati.com
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Hepatic Lipidosis "fatty liver" in cats 1 Citation Dr. Dr Gordon: My cat is very sick. I took him to the vet because he had become very lethargic. After the vet ran some tests, he determined that my cat has ?fatty liver? disease. My cat is very overweight to begin with, but I did not know that he could get this disease just by being ?fat?. The vet said that treatment can be very difficult. Can you help me understand this disease? RK Dear RK: I am very sorry to hear that your cat is not feeling well. From time to time, veterinarians encounter ca, technorati.com
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1 Citation So Misu went to the vet today to get his nasogastric feeding tube checked out since it was starting to come out after the suture broke. The vets tried to push it back in and added another suture so it would stop moving but it's still sticking out a bit and preventing him from really eating regular cat food. Everytime he leans down to eat, the tube presses on the bottom of the plate or food and hurts his nostril... oh well, we're giving him the calories he needs for now. It seems like he's imp, technorati.com
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1 Citation This last week I've been waking up around 6am, prepare Misu's three medications, give him his medications and water flush, try to entice him with some wet cat food and when that fails, draw up his tube feeds, warm it in the microwave for 12 seconds, make my coffee, then sit down to feed him while he is sitting in my lap for about 15-20 minutes while I'm having my coffee, give him an additional 10-15 ml of water then let him sit in my lap for an additional 15 minutes to make sure his stomach tole, technorati.com
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1 Citation Misu seems to be putting on weight but we won't know for sure until we get him checked out at the vet sometime this week. He's been tolerating his feeding well except that the suture near his nose that was holding the tube in place broke and so now the tube is a bit loose. With each sneeze, it creeps out a tiny bit where it is probably now about 3/4 inch out but the vet says it actually goes ~8 inches into his throat. So far so good. He's been eating a bit of regular cat food but the tube is, technorati.com
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