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My 5 year old cat Mephistopheles has been loosing teeth. I am in the medical profession and I also do a lot of animal rescue…so I am familiar with many medical issues.
This has me stumped. Stoph has been loosing teeth for a few months and his breath was bad, so he went under anesthesia for an exam and teeth cleaning.
He has the most horrible case of sore throat and mouth ulcers. It is called Feline Gingivitis-Stomatitis-Pharyngitis Complex.
At first the vet was thinking HIV or Fel Leuk but he is negative and he is vaccinated. The Vet put him on metronidazole and augmentin. He said some cats get better, some don’t. I have to have his teeth cleaned every 3 months and may need to treat for months with antibiotics. He may have to have almost all of his teeth pulled out.
It has been a bad week for me and this is just the cake topper. I rescued him as a tiny kitten and he is my first cat. The vet said most cats with this will refuse food…which he isn’t, he eats like a pig.
When I got him home tonight his poor little tongue was hanging out and he has been drooling bloody spit because they had to remove some teeth and some just fell out.
Does anyone else have a cat with problems like this?
He said I could spend thousands of dollars and still never get a real answer or a cure. If he quits eating or the pain gets worse he may need euthanasia…..
He is an inside cat, neutered, vet care, premium food. He is a little obese, 18 pounds…
Any one who has had a cat with this, please post…the vet and I are both open to ideas and suggestions…
I am so sorry to hear that. 🙁 I wish I knew what was going on with your kitty. But I haven’t a clue. Have you tried a search on it??? Maybe there is something out there in the land of internet that can help?
*hugs*
Awe, poor guy! 🙁 I feel so bad for him. I hope you guys can figure him out, and he pulls through this okay.
Poor kitty boy and poor you! I’m so sorry 🙁 We had a cat, Fred (short for Freddy Krueger), that we had to have euthanized because he was attacking other animals and people. He had been neutered and was on kitty hormones and kitty valium to try to keep him sane, but when he went after our friends daughter and she wound up with five stitches between her eyes, we and our vet decided he had to be put down. It was hard, but Fred was a BIG cat; he weighed almost 30 lbs. and when he stood on his hind legs he could rest his chin on the edge of the kitchen counters. He was big enough that he did serious damage. He took on the rotweiller next door and we nearly had to take on their vet bills! I loved Fred dearly, he was my baby, but he was obviously not happy and we had done all we could for him. He is in a better place where he can hunt all he wants. I hope you can get the help that Stoph needs so he can be healthy and happy again! If not, then sometimes as loving, caring pet parents, we need to take the hard step and do what’s best for our furry children. It sounds like you have a good vet and hopefully he can help and Stoph will be just fine! *Hugs for you and belly rubs for Stoph!*
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oh baby kitty….that poor cat 🙁
I have 10 cats and never have i seen or heard of something like this. he is so pretty. poor thing.
I’ve seen this once before, but I can’t offer anything reassuring or any suggestions, I’m afraid.
We had a white cat come into the clinic where I last worked with ulcers in her mouth. She had difficulty eating and doc suspected a dental problem, so we knocked her out and did a dental. Her body was eating her teeth up. Reacting to them as if they were a foreign body.
They had what people call ‘cavities’, the enamel was eaten away at the gumline and into the tooth so badly that it was a job getting everything out during extraction. The roots fell apart when the elevator touched them, so it was a ‘drill ’em out and leave the gums unsutured to drain’ procedure.
Pulling all but the canines was what eventually happened and I’m afraid I left before the situation was fully resolved, but she seemed tons better *without* her teeth than with them.
Good luck, Keschete. I know these kinds of things are quite harrowing!
Poor kitty. I’m so sorry, Kaya. Hang in there and see what happens. We’ll be here if you need to talk.
The condition is often referred to as LPS (lymphoplasmacytic stomatitis) and is a severe oral inflammation. The problem is that different things cause it in different cats. The exact cause is unknown and is actually controversial. Most likely the cause is multi-factorial.
Viruses can cause it – Felv and FIV but many cats that have LPS test and are negative for them. Some people suspect Calici virus (one of the viruses that can cause upper respiratories in cats) but this has not been proved. A lot of vets suspect a bacteria known as Bartonella but that also hasn’t been proven. The problem is that a large number of cats will test positive for Bartonella but don’t have LPS. Bartonella is also what causes cat scratch fever in people. Some vets belive there is an immune mediated component because cats tend to get better with steroids.
So there is no one treatment for LPS. What works in one cat may not work in another. Treatment options include antibiotics (metronidazole, clindamycin, zithromax, baytril, and clavamox have all been used), steroids (prednisone or injections of depomedrol), azanthroprine (an immune suppressant), interferon alfa-2A (anti-viral), lactoferrin (many breeders swear by it but it often doesn’t work) and acyclovir.
And in the worst cases – removing ALL the teeth. But a lot of cats can be made more comfortable with antibiotics and/or prednisone.
Good luck with your kitty.
ddvm wrote:The condition is often referred to as LPS (lymphoplasmacytic stomatitis) and is a severe oral inflammation. The problem is that different things cause it in different cats. The exact cause is unknown and is actually controversial. Most likely the cause is multi-factorial.
Viruses can cause it – Felv and FIV but many cats that have LPS test and are negative for them. Some people suspect Calici virus (one of the viruses that can cause upper respiratories in cats) but this has not been proved. A lot of vets suspect a bacteria known as Bartonella but that also hasn’t been proven. The problem is that a large number of cats will test positive for Bartonella but don’t have LPS. Bartonella is also what causes cat scratch fever in people. Some vets belive there is an immune mediated component because cats tend to get better with steroids.
So there is no one treatment for LPS. What works in one cat may not work in another. Treatment options include antibiotics (metronidazole, clindamycin, zithromax, baytril, and clavamox have all been used), steroids (prednisone or injections of depomedrol), azanthroprine (an immune suppressant), interferon alfa-2A (anti-viral), lactoferrin (many breeders swear by it but it often doesn’t work) and acyclovir.
And in the worst cases – removing ALL the teeth. But a lot of cats can be made more comfortable with antibiotics and/or prednisone.
Good luck with your kitty.
Thanks, that is actually what I have ug up in the last 24 hours. I did find an article that mentions Hypoallergenic pet foods as a possible help.
I am going to put him on the Royal Canin Hypoallergenic. It is expensive, but he is already on a Royal canin cat food, so I am hoping the switch will do him a bit of good. He started on antibiotics, but I didn’t try the mouhwash yet…I am saving it for the weekend 🙂
He actually ate whole pieces of cat food like a vaccum cleaner tonight and seems to feel a bit better.
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