Tresaderm & Diabetes (Dexmethasone)

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MommaOfMuse

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Musette was put on the ear drops Tresaderm for an ear infection the other day, I have noticed that her BGs really spike right after I put the drops in her ears, so I started looking them up on the web. I have found nothing on the drops themselves but did find where it says one of the ingredients dexmethasone should only be used in diabetic cats as a last resort.

Does anyone know if that applies to the ear drops or is it basically just for the oral or injectable form?

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Scruffy had chronic ear infections, and twice, against my better instincts, I let a new dermatologist talk me into using tresaderm drops. (Yeah, sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake...) He saw instant increases - drastic increases - in his glucose levels. And it took a couple of weeks to settle back down again. He was a steroid-induced diabetic, so maybe his sensitivity to steroids was excessive; I don't know. But when he was diagnosed with cancer and CRD in January, he was placed on IV dexamethasone for three days, and sure enough, my cat who had been diet-controlled for almost four years was suddenly back in the 200's again.

We treated his ear infections with antibiotics for the most part, and also an ear medication that came in a big bottle whose name I can't recall. I would pour some of it on a cotton ball, squeeze it a little to make a sort of sudsy substance, and to Scruffy's intense dismay, insert it a little way into his ears and allow the bubbles to go down into the ear canal to help flush out some of the detritis in there..

Did you ever see a picture of a cat's ear canals? They're enormously long.
 
Well I don't know how Musette became a diabetic but OMG her BGs are jumping on these drops! she just went from an amps of 120 (forgot them last night) to +2 of 310 and a +4 of 354! Since her ears look great I think I'll just keep them clean and skip the drops if she gets the infection back I'll see if there is something else they can give her, because this sure isn't working at least not for her.

Not only does she hate them, so she is leery of me messing with her ears now when I go to test but it just isn't worth it for her to jump this high in a short period of time since I was just finally making head way with her after switching insulins. <sigh> If it isn't one thing its another. <now where it that head banging on wall icon when you need it...lol>

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
I think I would toss those drops as far as I could!

I would just take them back for a refund because the vet should not have given you this medicine for a diabetic.

The first batch of gabapentin was in a syrup that was not sugar free, and my vet did not realize all the non-medicinal ingredients. I will always ask now to see the list of those ingredients and also check the ones I get OTC.
 
I have no hard evidence, but Saima had Tresaderm many times over the years (it was the only thing that seemed to take down her ear infections, and since we could never find a food that she didn't seem to be allergic to, she had to be on medication repeatedly). She wasn't diagnosed diabetic until pretty shortly before we had to put her to sleep due to heart disease, so I think the heart problems were the major contributor to her developing FD. But I doubt the drops helped. Once, several years ago, I accidentally gave her too many drops in one ear, and she ate like she was starving for the next day.

So really, I don't think they can be good for an FD kitty, although they made her feel better and she had her longest stretches without infection after she took them. Other medications never seemed to actually kill the infection and it would be back within a very short time. I felt terrible after the diagnosis because I used to basically force our vet to give me Tresaderm... I didn't know steroids could be bad for cats, all I knew was that it seemed to work well where the other stuff didn't.
 
Tossing the drops because they aren't doing anything positive for her in anyway, shape or form. She acts like she is starving right afterwards, is fighting me about putting them in and is now getting ear shy about testing (running at test time instead of coming to find me) and her BGs sky-rocket...just not worth it. Especially since they are being used not so much for the infection but just to ease the imflammation from the ear mites which are now gone.

Just not worth the fight and the high BGs! If her ears get bad again I will check into what else can be used but at this point these are causing more harm than good. she also acts like her head hurts a couple hours after she gets them, she squints her eyes, hangs her head and tries to find somewhere dark to hide.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Hello all!

I think I've posted about this before, but Porky's been on Tresaderm drops (twice a week) for a long time now - he has a chronic ear issue, it's the only thing that works for him.

I have seen no changes in his BG (he's OTJ) - I guess I'm just lucky with my Porkchop!

That reminds me...it's time for a poking! Haven't done it in a while...
 
Tresaderm and Animax (also contains steroids) spiked my Twigie's BG.
Just what was the diagnosis? If yeast you can use an antifungal like Conifite. There are steroid-free meds for bacteria.
 
Larry,

Just inflammation from a bad case of ear mites, with a 'possible' yeast infection. But I just checked her ears and they are perfectly clean not even ear wax at the moment so I don't think once we got rid of the mites she has any form of infection in there. I have a dog that gets cronic yeast infections so I kind of know what they look and smell like and I'm just not seeing it in her.

When I took her in her ears were very hot, now they are back to their normal temp, no crusties inside them and she doesnt seem to be bothered by them so I'm guessing that it was just the mites that was her problem.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
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