young cat with neurological symptoms

Re: young cat with neurological symptoms

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 28 May 2014 12:30:35 GMT

Mark beat me to it but FIP would be top of my list of things that it is remotely possible to treat. If tests for this are highly suspicious (they're rarely conclusive) you could try Virbagen Omega but it is less successful against this than the retro-viruses.

Re: young cat with neurological symptoms

ilanit — Wed, 28 May 2014 05:15:49 GMT

Thank you very much for your opinion Mark.

Cat is on regular cat food and has even been supplemented with vitamin b1 last couple of weeks :(

Re: young cat with neurological symptoms

Mark Lowrie — Tue, 27 May 2014 18:28:40 GMT

I agree the cat looks like it has central vestibular disease based on the video and report of vertical nystagmus. Therefore a caudal fossa lesion is most likely. In a young cat, the most common cause would be FIP and so this is sadly not treatable. I suspect the transient improvement whilst on clindamycin was the disease waxing and waning rather than the medication itself. Thiamine deficiency is also possible – would be worth finding out what the cat is fed (raw fish would raise alarm bells for thiamine deficiency). You can also consider urine organic acids to help increase suspicion of the disease but ultimately supplementing with vitamin B1 would be the treatment so probably cheapest and easiest just to do this in the first instance. I can’t think of anything else to suggest as the remaining causes for a progressive central vestibular disease in a young cat are not treatable.

Re: young cat with neurological symptoms

Kate Richardson — Sun, 25 May 2014 14:58:24 GMT

Neourology isn't my strong point by a long way so hopefully Mark Lowrie will be along shortly.....but could test for crypococcus if present where you are-and will do harm by treating for toxoplasma with higher doses of clindamycin; also treat for parasites with fenbendazole. Nutritional deficiency? eg thiamine, so vit b therapy? and probably other nutritional diseases which top of my head I can't think of- Vit E?? Sorry not a huge help, poor kitten