Emergency with SubQ

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How much fluid was given?
Have you checked her glucose? Ketones?
Did she eat this morning?
What was in the vomit?
Does her breath smell like urine? Sweet?

SubQ fluids absorb slowly, but if she has been very dehydrated, she could need to clear toxins through her kidneys - those will make her breath smell like urine and also upset the stomach. A bit of Pepcid (1/4 tablet) may be helpful, though I encourage checking with your vet.
 
BG 252 Did not check ketones. Gave 1 unit on the bag.Vomit was slightly yellow fluid. ,ot aware of smell to breathe. Called vet, he was concerned only about BG :
I had not yet taken. I have another emergency with grandchildren and - am on way to help. Can go home in about an hour.
 
1 unit (100 ml, I believe) shouldn't result in any overload unless you have a really tiny kitty.

Unless she's prone to ketones, that BG doesn't concern me (others w/ ketone experience, please chime in.)

I'd be leaning towards an explanation of stress and/or possibly upset stomach, given that it was just yellowish (bile?) fluid.

Hope things work out w/ the grandkids.

Have you got anyone local who can be a backup for you, if you need to leave?
 
I know there are rare cases where too much fluids combined with a specific health condition (heart trouble? I may be remembering that wrong) can cause an emergency situation. Sorry I don't recall many details, but I know I've seen that mentioned a couple times.

I'd agree with others if she is still acting funny I'd get her to the vet to be on the safe side. Trouble walking doesn't sound right...
 
I am back home and she seems better. Is walking ok (tho slowly) and just ate. Vet is open tomorrow for emergencies. Just found that she vomited and had a hairball. Don't know what any of this means. Thanks for your responses!~
 
Whew! Hopefully it was just a hairball she was puking up! One of the only cautions I know about giving sub-q fluids, is if your kitty has heart issues. It just taxes the heart to have to absorb all those fluids. But if no heart problems, then 100ml shouldn't be an issue for most cats. Usually if the cat is really dehydrated, they won't eat much. So within hours of getting fluids, they get their appetite back since they're starting to feel better. Hopefully that's what happened with your kitty.

As for the falling over thing though.. that's not normal. :-| I'd really keep an eye on that. Do you think it was from the (cold) fluids feeling really weird to her?? Until they get used to the fluids, I imagine it feels REALLY weird to them. I give fluids to foster kittens when they're sick, and they act like it feels REALLY weird! Looking back, trying to flip over from the feeling. (They don't even react to the needle stick, but instead when I start pushing the fluids in!) If she was actually unsteady on her feet though.. that's probably from something else. If her BG wasn't low, then I'd definitely bring that up with your vet & see what they say. They might want to do some tests for some other things that may cause that..?
 
Normosal can make some kitties vomit. Can you check on the bag and see if it is normosal or LRS (lactated ringers).

Did your kitty have a large pouch after fluids? Is it possible she just found herself a little off kilter for a moment?
 
If you are concerned about giving the entire 100 at one time, there is nothing to stop you from splitting the amount up and give 2 amounts of 50. I have done that a few times and it seems to be well accepted.

And if all the fluids seem to have sloshed over to one side, it could cause an imbalance when first rising.
 
p.s. Judy, if she is doing ok now you might want to take the 911 off your original post, just so people coming on the board don't get freaked out & all :)
 
What color is her fur ... and what color is her cat food - just had my buff colored kitty provide fur balls recently and the liquid part was mostly yellowish too.
 
She is calico. THe first vomit (after the fluids) was just yellowish liguid. The second, an hour later, was a hair ball with a lot of food.
 
The fluid is lactated ringers. I did not notice a large pouch after fluid. But can't say I noticed any kind of pouch any of the 5 times I have given it. She has a lot of fur, so maybe I wouldn't notice. Interesting possibility
 
Yellowish, clearish vomit seems pretty common with fur balls around here (11 cats!)

BTW - my vet was OK with me warming up the lactated Ringers when I had a kitty needing fluids. Check with your vet to be sure, but that may help with the chilling effect of placing cool fluids under the skin, as can wrapping the cat in a comfy towel to keep warm (and restrained)

I warmed it by placing the bag in the microwave, and doing about 10 seconds, rolling to mix the temp, then checking to see how warm it was. Alternatively, You can place it in a bowl of hot water for several minutes too.
 
Thanks! I do both those things. I use a heating pad around the bag which I then wrap in a blanket or towel. And I have a big beach towel with a hole cut in it that I wrap her in when giving thefluids.
 
If you run your hand over the cat's back and sides, you should be able to feel where the SQuids are sitting under the skin. Often, it will feel like hump on the back; I keep track of the size of this hump to know how quickly it's getting absorbed.
On times when it's badly needed, I have noticed that hump be gone, dispersed in just over an hour but other times, it is hours before it goes down.
I find that Ollie's hump stays on his back, but Shadoe's has on occasion sloshed down on the sides and looks almost like saddlebags.
Ollie gets impatient if given too quickly so I use very fine needles to slow the SQuids down.
 
I would alternate the sides on Cuddles' back. It just built up into a large ball of fluids if I did it right over her spine, and she'd squirm when I did that. So I'd give it just on one side of the spine. (in the 'saddle' area.) So it had somewhere to go afterward. It always seemed to make it's way down by her chest.. so giving it RIGHT on the top just seemed to delay the inevitable, as well as put more pressure on the 'ball of fluids' so more leaked out after we were done.
 
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