Carol in Chicago
Member Since 2017
Rose was seen by the vet yesterday. He indicated an enema was in order, so I was able to do that today.
I also collected a urine sample for UA and sure enough, vetty bean found bacteria. We have been through several courses of antibiotics over the last year, so I wanted to up the game with something stronger this time. We are going to try Orbax. While I know the gold standard is C&S, none of the last 3 the have been done have been able to grow, so I declined to go that route this time. She has something driving up WBC so I would like to knock that down.
Strange as it may sound, I'm happy they found bacteria in the UA, because that might explain some of the decline in kidney values. I had a bit of a melt down yesterday when the vet reviewed initial blood work, but now that I have updated her labs tab, I'm thinking this is a setback not a major decline. Yet another reason to keep the labs tab updated.
In addition to ABs, I'm increasing fluids and adding new supplements to try to turn it around.
Looking at the positive, IDEXX BG was 89 and there was no glucose in urine today.
Yesterday.
I also collected a urine sample for UA and sure enough, vetty bean found bacteria. We have been through several courses of antibiotics over the last year, so I wanted to up the game with something stronger this time. We are going to try Orbax. While I know the gold standard is C&S, none of the last 3 the have been done have been able to grow, so I declined to go that route this time. She has something driving up WBC so I would like to knock that down.
Strange as it may sound, I'm happy they found bacteria in the UA, because that might explain some of the decline in kidney values. I had a bit of a melt down yesterday when the vet reviewed initial blood work, but now that I have updated her labs tab, I'm thinking this is a setback not a major decline. Yet another reason to keep the labs tab updated.
In addition to ABs, I'm increasing fluids and adding new supplements to try to turn it around.Looking at the positive, IDEXX BG was 89 and there was no glucose in urine today.
Yesterday.
