Murphy 9/25/10 (Week 4)

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Murphy is doing well with the diabetes/pancreatitis. We haven't done another PLI and she will have another curve in a few weeks and we will test her fructosamine as well. So far, her numbers are dropping to low-mid 200s. Now, we begin to treat the d. cati mite (MRSA) that has reappeared this week. So, she is on every other day injections of Iverbectin. Yuck, but it's all we can do because she cannot do lime dips from the feline asthma. So far, my vet is very pleased at her improvement. Her coat is looking very good and she hasn't vomited or anything. We will start migrating to her new diet this week when I receive her food.

Things are looking up.
 
Glad the Murphy seems to be getting better. Just curious of the words: "treat the d. cati mite (MRSA)". MRSA is the abbreviation for: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus more commonly called antibiotic resistant infection in humans.
 
It is likely some do not realize that animals also can get MRSA or MRSA-CA or MRSI. In Murphy's case, she has had in a period of 1 year, 5 bouts of MRSA and MRSI from the d. cati mite which is caused from immunosuppression for 3 diseases, FIV, feline leukemia and diabetes mellitus. In her case, the d. cati is from the 1.5 years she was un-Dx'd thanks to her previous vet. It is the most stubborn mite there is, and is very rare in felines, but only attached to these three diseases. She cannot fight off her own bacteria, and the MRSA infections are secondary to the mite. The first bout was MRSA/Steptococcus Areaus and E-Colin in and on her nose. The next was negative coagulose staph, the third was MRSA, the fourth was MRSA again and finally at the 5th bout, it was MRSI -- all caused from the d. cati mite. Her labs were forwarded to Texas A&M for research purposes because her immune system is so compromised now. It is a very ugly looking infection, the pictures I took were horrible, her nose turned completely black from it, scaly, scabby, and she has been sick, sick, sick.

Lisa
 
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