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scabs all over my cats back, and head
My cat has covering her back and head they ar covering her and i
wondered if andone knew of a treatment i could try before i talke her to vet and have them give me a huge bill to check her out. if you have any suggestions please let me know! |
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scabs all over my cats back, and head
soundkart wrote: My cat has covering her back and head they ar covering her and i wondered if andone knew of a treatment i could try before i talke her to vet and have them give me a huge bill to check her out. if you have any suggestions please let me know! If you can't afford a vet, I don't know what to suggest - it certainly sounds like a problem that requires medical attention. (It can't be very comfortable for the cat, either.) Do cats get mange? IIRC, that's how it looks if a dog has it. |
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scabs all over my cats back, and head
soundkart wrote: My cat has covering her back and head they ar covering her and i wondered if andone knew of a treatment i could try before i talke her to vet and have them give me a huge bill to check her out. if you have any suggestions please let me know! Take her to the vet anyway. All these suggestions are good ones, but once you get to the point where the cat's skin integrity is compromised you are at high risk for a much more serious infection to set in and it needs rapid treatment, sometimes even burn treatment, depending on how much of the cat's body surface area is involved. .. Don't delay. --tension |
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scabs all over my cats back, and head
"Cheryl" wrote in message ... On Wed 04 Oct 2006 09:41:38p, soundkart wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes ups.com): My cat has covering her back and head they ar covering her and i wondered if andone knew of a treatment i could try before i talke her to vet and have them give me a huge bill to check her out. if you have any suggestions please let me know! First, you should know that what you’re describing is very miserable for the cat, particularly if it’s been going on for a while. Best to have an idea of what’s causing it. A little of my experience with a cat that is seemingly allergic to *everything*. It could be a flea allergy. If you have access to a good flea treatment like Advantage or Frontline, that would be a start. Plus, if this is a recent occurrence, look at food fed, litter used, any other environment changes. If you changed foods, change it back. If you changed litter brand, change it back. If you changed both, and the problem started, change only one back, see if skin improves, then change the other back if not. That way you know which it was. Even if you aren’t able to get tests done to see what kitty is allergic to (if it is an allergy, but it sounds like it) your vet should be able to give your cat a shot of DepoMedrol which should clear it up. This will tell you something – if a DepoMedrol shot clears up the problem, it is likely an allergy. If it doesn’t, it could be mites, ringworm, or another dermatological problem. If the scabs indicate infection, your kitty will need a round of antibiotics. Good luck and let us know how it goes. Maybe I am cynical but this rings Holly bells for me. It's a terrible thing to distrust isn't it? but that's what she did to this group. For those who have joined since, someone sent similarly spelled posts for a week or two then pretended to have a brain tumour and of course we all responded. It was not true. It was only a few weeks later that I was diagnosed with ovarian ca myself and I thought maybe no-one would believe me after that example of Munchausens syndrome. Which can become M syn by proxy. Make your child ill, or pretend, make your animal ill, or pretend. It's for attention, to have kindness shown. If pretending does not work enough it can go on to deliberately inducing illness in a child or animal. We have a few cases of it every year, but it's not common. Tweed |
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