Lucy Update

Thanks, buttons. The clinic in Dallas can only ship meds within the US right now, but I’ll tell you what they say about the ingredients. (They only divulge the exact ingredients to vets who have signed a non-disclosure waiver.) I’ll type what they say with my educated guesses about the ingredients in parentheses.

“The medication is a cocktail of FDA approved medicines including an antibiotic (likely clindamycin or doxycylcine), an H2 antagonist, an immunomodulator (almost certainly cyclosporine) and several probiotic and nutritional agents. We use sub-clinical dosing for each of the Rx drugs. The preparation is free of chemotherapeutic meds or steroids.”

I’m a member of a yahoo group for stomatitis…not sure how to link a yahoo group, but maybe googling could find it? Anyways, people in other countries have great success with feline omega interferon. But it is extremely hard to get in the US. I also know someone on another forum whose cat went into total remission with a raw diet. Extractions of the teeth (by a dental specialist who will use x-rays to insure all root fragments are out) also provide total relief for many cats. Lucy eats a raw diet, had her teeth extracted behind the canines, and we’ve tried various natural remedies…but she needed the drugs. There are so many possible causes for stomatitis (allergies, calici-virus, immune system problems, reaction to additives in commercial food) that what works for one cat might not work for another.

Good luck to your friend. And, there aren’t many vets here who know what to try besides steroids and antibiotics either. I will say, the steroid shots gave Lucy great relief. And I was willing to keep using them if that was the only option. As I noted here before, better a shorter life without pain than a longer one with it. However, the steroids can have diminishing results and bounce back effects…which is a scary thought.