Thread: Life threatening abscess on rear leg of my cat.

Greetings all on this forum.

Time is running out for my cat. He is our 12 year old Maine Coon. We have taken him to the vet couple weeks ago after we discovered his rear leg swelling up. He has involvement in his lymph nodes also. He's been on antibiotic for the last 10 days or so as well as an anti inflammatory for pain.

He only 5 days left of antibiotics.

Today the vet said infection is spreading and has a large lump on his leg, and when the antibiotics are finished my cat will crash fast and will have to be put down. I've recently read somewhere that there may be a homepathic remedy that is a better alternative to antibiotic. It was specifically for a rear leg abscess. What I remember, think it had something to do with sulpha used with some other remedies to help heal the wound?

Anybody ever deal with this issue before and was successful in treating it? I don't want to put my cat down if I have other options.


Thanks in advance,

Dan.

Hi Dan
I have no experience of this but this may assist?
Treating Abscess in Animals with Homeopathy

I hope you find an answer and your cat recovers. Let me know.

Helen

Hi Helen,

Thank you so much for your reply! That was the exact article that I was referring to. I've been all over the web trying to find it again.

I don't really know if the treatment in the article will work, but I down to only days before I have to make that dreaded decision. I hope a health food store in my area carries what I need.

Hi Helen,

An update: The local nutrition store was very helpful with some advice on homeopathic products, and also pointed me to a homeopathic veternarian about 20 minutes away. I have booked an appointment for my boy on saturday morning.

Today after I spoke with the nutrition store I have put him on the following:

Budwig diet (cottage cheese and flax oil) morning
Heph Sulph 30c in his water dish 4 times a day (I am looking to buy 200c dose online or at the vet saturday)
Probiotic 1/8 tsp 3 times a day in his canned food for 10 days, then 1 a day afterward
Flouressence 1:1 with water 2 times a day

Hopefully this will hold him until his appointment saturday.

I am sure the vet will change something above. She will look at his current diet,his meds and will put him on a specific diet.

The good news is he is still using the litter box and an appetite. He is very stronged willed.

Dan.

Just back from the new vet.

Somewhat promising news.

It's not cancer or lekumia. It's a severe infection within the leg joint and now he has a slight fever. The first vet treated with an antibiotic that was not the best choice to use for my boy's condition.

He is now on 2 two different types of antibiotics, and now he will have to undergo surgery to flush and clean the infection in the joint and lymph node. I will take him back next Tuesday for the surgery.

Hopefully in the next 2 days there will be an improvement with the new medication.

I'll still give him the homeopathic supplements.

So glad to hear the news is more hopeful. Hope your boy improves soon. Please keep us posted. Very best wishes.