Snoops mom
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Hi
My cat Nell age 12 is having a dental this week. She is in very good health, recent blood work was great! Her weight is good, etc.
She has FORL's however (so called "kitty cavities") and will probably need to have a few more teeth pulled.
The tech wrote up the estimate and included a shot of Convenia. I am NOT going to allow them to give her that, however I wonder, is it TRULY necessary for a cat having a dental to get any type of antibiotics if they are going to have extractions?
she has no heart murmur, she is in really good shape physically.
I know in people, you get pre medicated with anti biotics if you have mitral valve prolapse or if you have artificial joints, and for other various reasons, but otherwise healthy people do NOT get antibiotics to get teeth pulled.
Why are we giving them to our cats, other than the obvious- cats are not people, and people are not cats LOL
To be truthful, she was sent home with Clindamycin the last two times she had teeth pulled and I just wasn't able to get even a single full dose into her. She's ok, nothing awful happened, but I don't know if it's because we just got lucky, or because nothing bad is even likely to occur when you don't give a healthy cat antibiotics during and after (and sometimes before) a dental.
Has **anyone** ever heard of a cat having a problem who was not given antibiotics?
The vet did give my cats Convenia for dentals once in the past, before I knew anything about it.
Is there a safe alternative, a shorter acting injectable antibiotic, that she could be given at the time of the dental?
what's the current thinking on antibiotics and cat dentals?
My cat Nell age 12 is having a dental this week. She is in very good health, recent blood work was great! Her weight is good, etc.
She has FORL's however (so called "kitty cavities") and will probably need to have a few more teeth pulled.
The tech wrote up the estimate and included a shot of Convenia. I am NOT going to allow them to give her that, however I wonder, is it TRULY necessary for a cat having a dental to get any type of antibiotics if they are going to have extractions?
she has no heart murmur, she is in really good shape physically.
I know in people, you get pre medicated with anti biotics if you have mitral valve prolapse or if you have artificial joints, and for other various reasons, but otherwise healthy people do NOT get antibiotics to get teeth pulled.
Why are we giving them to our cats, other than the obvious- cats are not people, and people are not cats LOL
To be truthful, she was sent home with Clindamycin the last two times she had teeth pulled and I just wasn't able to get even a single full dose into her. She's ok, nothing awful happened, but I don't know if it's because we just got lucky, or because nothing bad is even likely to occur when you don't give a healthy cat antibiotics during and after (and sometimes before) a dental.
Has **anyone** ever heard of a cat having a problem who was not given antibiotics?
The vet did give my cats Convenia for dentals once in the past, before I knew anything about it.
Is there a safe alternative, a shorter acting injectable antibiotic, that she could be given at the time of the dental?
what's the current thinking on antibiotics and cat dentals?
