One of the vets who saw her earlier last week had said she had a slightly low protein level and mentioned a protein losing enteropathy type of problem as a possibility. But we were hoping it was just due to the heavy vomiting she'd been doing.
She'd been on Medrol for three doses when she began vomiting blood and this was the vet who'd found blood in her stool and suspected an ulcer, adding sucralfate to her medications and taking her off the Medrol. A pity too as basically the med worked but it was too much for her wee tum.
The sucralfate gave her terrible gas and stomach cramps, she stopped eating and it went downhill from there.
She is still rubbing her face everywhere. I got her to eat a bit of the moist hypoallergenic food, watered down and syringed, but it's the kibbles she goes for. She had quite a few of those. Since they are new to her I didn't overdo, but she was happy to have them, that's the most animated I've seen her for food in a while.
We got the pentoxifylline in and I'm just watching to see how she does now. She is very stressed, understandably.
There is something hard on her leg, don't think it's dried pus but it looks a dull yellow-ish...I think it must be the adhesive they used to secure the catheter, and I was able to moisten and peel some off-it's like superglue!-but will call them to be sure that's what it is. The skin isn't particularly sensitive or sore but she just won't leave it and I don't have a cone or any vet bandage I can use to keep her from it. Guess we'll just be snuggled up all day while I manually restrain her from messing it up. This was a bulging area of skin yesterday it was like they'd had the bandage too tight.
Would it be advisable to use neosporin on it? The kind without pain relief?