Hi All,
My cat started to breathe loudly and snore around christmas 2011.
He is around 4 to 5 years old a male and neutered.
He had chest xrays and an endoscope on 24/02/2012.
There was a slight haze on the xray and he was put on prednisolone 5mg once a day
after 16 days there was no improvement and he returned for repeat throat and chest xrays and blood works, he was given a depo-medrol shot and was FIV/FELV negative Thank God, but they said he had a low white blood count.
These were a charity vets and they had limited resources were quite impersonal and couldn't really give any answers.
Growing concerned I asked my Mother to insure him under her name and wait 2 weeks for the cover to start.
Shortly after the cover started he became really listless and was coughing,
We took him to a private vet who said he had some fluid on the lungs and he stayed in hospital for 2 days, he had a trachael wash to look for culture and he had chest xrays again and blood works
everything was relatively normal and he was put on antibiotics 2 different kinds (synolux and macobyl) for 10 days.
The coughing stopped and he improved alot but the noisy breathing was still there.
The vet does not have an mri so on 18/04/2012 he had a rhinoscopy and skull xrays.
The xrays were fine and the vet said that there was no polyps or mass visible on the rhinoscope but he had redness and inflammation in the nasopharynx.
She said that a rhinoscope can't see every nook and cranny of the nose like an mri can but she said together with the skull xray findings she would be very surprised if it was anything sinister.
He has been put on prednisolone 5mg once a day for a week and then 2.5mg per day for another week.
I couldn't very well tell the vet that he was on it for 16 days before and it did nothing as he was not covered then.
My Mother wondered if the reason the prednisolone didn't work last time was because he had some kind of infection as well at the time because the antibiotics did stop all the coughing and swallowing.
He has a great appetite throughout all of this and he has only sneezed once in 4 months no nasal discharge either.
Does anyone have any knowledge on nasopharynx issues and why he could have this inflammation?
Sincere Thanks.
Added (1). Forgot to say he also had nasal swabs and was negative for feline herpes virus, calaci virus and chlamydia if that helps! :-)
Added (2). Sorry forgot to mention he also had an ultrasound of his heart and the vet said all was normal.
Added (3). Sorry forgot to mention he also had an ultrasound of his heart and the vet said all was normal.
Added (4). Sorry forgot to mention he also had an ultrasound of his heart and the vet said all was normal.
Added (5). Sorry forgot to mention he also had an ultrasound of his heart and the vet said all was normal.
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