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Old November 30th, 2009, 01:56 AM
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You know your cat better than anyone, if you think Mikey would've been worse staying at the vet for treatment then you made the right choice.

The blood values definately drop more significantly & often into normal when on IV because the fluids are flushing the blood directly - right from the veins, where the subq's are flushing more indirectly by way of the filtering through the kidneys. As to whether the IV fluids would've been better, in a true crisis situation yes better, in a chronic situation it's a great temp fix but subq's are still needed afterwards. I guess it would depend on what else if anything is going on & if the infection is truely cleared up.

Forgot to mention the urine testing will also determine if the infection is gone.

Excess stomach acid doesn't necessarily mean he has stomach ulcers. If Mikey is drinking alot of water & vomiting right after I would think it would be more likely. Stomach ulcers would afftect the blood results only if they were bleeding to which you would see the BUN elevated but creatinine normal, curdled blood in the vomit, poops would be black.

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