ATTENTION ALL VETERINARIAN'S and Tech's, Lend me your ear!?

I have a sweet, elderly female cat with problems, I can not take to a vet until saturday at the earliest. She is a domestic long hair foundling who was approx. 2-3 months old when she joined our other indoor cats.





She is about 9 or 10 years old Now, and she has never been strong and robust-rather scrawny, although we have tried every diet known to man to tempt her.





She has gradually developed some distressing symptoms over the last year.





She frequently has episodes of vomiting (mostly fur and acid indigestion). There are also occurrences of diarrhea, although these usually don't happen at the same time. She also has problems with dry itchy skin and possibly air-borne pollen allergies, ( try to keep the air filtered as much as possible, but the truth is that Houston was built on a swamp, and we have zillions of allergens all year round.)





Since the vomiting and diarrhea have hit her together this time, she is feeling pretty unhappy-no acute distress.





To be Con't........

ATTENTION ALL VETERINARIAN'S and Tech's, Lend me your ear!?
I have no idea if saliva tests are available for cats or how you collect saliva from a cat but maybe your vet does.





allergies


diarrhea


nausea - vomitting





are in this list http://www.ylcf.org/hormone-imbalance/06...





This suggests hormone imabalance





May be a there are progesterone or estrogen creams available for cats. Real cat creams not synthetic ones ?





A human info page


http://www.hormoneprofile.com/howhormone...





There are more human links on my page


http://uk.geocities.com/willim_walker@bt...





I hope I have pointed you in the right direction
Reply:im srry i can but i sue wish u luck
Reply:sounds like she has worms or some other parasite or it could be the food. I have a cat that has all kinds of skin issues and a "delicate" stomach. My cat finally seems to be doing okay on Science Diet canned food but the skin is still an issue. When I adopted him had bare patches of skin where his hair fell out, I think due to the stress of being in a shelter. Sometimes I think animals show stress and trauma just as much as humans so maybe you have one of those kind of cats.
Reply:Might be stomach cancer. I lost one cat due to that.
Reply:I had a cat who was sickly for a long time, he was getting pretty old too, he had the symptoms you described, and he licked and scratched himself until his fur fell out in big patches. We took him to the vet who told us that he was just allergic to his food. He was allergic to fish, which I had always thought was cat friendly. Well, we changed his food and he got better. He lived for another six years, until he got sick again, but just from being old this time . . .


Hope that helps some. Good luck.