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  • Sybil Dryburgh
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    23:23 25/05/25

    iF A PATIENT IS JUST TOO PAINFUL AND WON’T EAT AND WE ARE 48 HOURS POST OP, I will absolutely give them NSAIDS and very often they start have started eating within hours.

    If they have true ileus, I have not had one yet…. I understand that IV erythromycin is useful and is what is used for human babies with ileus.

    The caps is because I can’t manage a laptop yet….

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    15:12 24/03/25

    😮
    Thanks for sharing, have never heard of this.

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    21:13 20/09/23

    Replying to scott@vtx-cpd.com 17/09/2023 - 15:09

    Yes. Gaba to both. Might have given the worst one steroids as well. Cant remember.
    Will check in with perm vet next week

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    20:13 16/09/23

    Replying to scott@vtx-cpd.com 15/09/2023 - 18:44

    Will update. Saw them in person yesterday. They both have a degree of FGSC. The rude one had it worse.
    Gave them the isfm info.

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    15:09 14/09/23

    Replying to scott@vtx-cpd.com 12/09/2023 - 19:38

    Thank you!

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    17:29 12/09/23

    My only plan so far is to check them over and if no answer reveals itself, give them gaba for 2 weeks and divide the house.
    Thoughts?

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    14:54 05/06/23

    Replying to scott@vtx-cpd.com 02/06/2023 - 10:13

    Side effects look horrible.
    And predictable?
    Surely insulins job is to put glucose into tissues and the point of reducing measured blood glucose is to check you have enough insulin? ( and not too much!)
    Will give this a wide swerve.

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    17:03 19/04/23

    I would like to gently insert a little cat into these pigeons… see screenshot of a convo in Veterinary Palliative Care fB chat group

    screenshot_20230419_170014_whatsapp Screenshot_20230419_170014_WhatsApp
    Sybil Dryburgh
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    15:17 19/04/23

    Thank you, that is really informative. It sounds very promising.

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    12:54 02/04/23

    Replying to Kerry Doolin 12/03/2023 - 07:09

    thank you

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    18:57 08/03/23

    o.m.g. bleuch

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    23:14 23/10/22

    Do I understand correctly that these murmurs are only audible if we apply pressure to the right chest during auscultation in cats with no murmur heard when not applying pressure?

    Do we think these cats are just having some valves/ muscles bent out of shape? should this be a thing??? why only some cats?? if associated with age and condition is there actually underlying disease and this is a test for it??

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    22:21 21/07/22

    Replying to scott@vtx-cpd.com 21/07/2022 - 10:46

    I am now a bit confused having happily followed eminence based dogma in this regard. I am going to have to think for myself.

    Omeprazole use can be very pain relieving where there is ulceration (personal use/ misuse) and that may be of value?

    A few days worth at and after presentation in the ER is unlikely to cause the microbiome to have more of a hissy fit than the actual injury to the intestines. It tolerates months of doxycycline in chlamydia infected kitties.

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    13:34 23/03/22

    Would injected furosemide do the same thing?
    I ask because it is legally and illegally used depending on country/ discipline to try and prevent pulmonary bleeding in racehorses and perhaps this is a potential mechanism for that? And it does seem to have some nsaid effects too.

    I certainly will give it a go as I seem to get lots of weird dyspnoeas at night.

    Sybil Dryburgh
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    23:13 24/01/22

    I believe that a strong suspect has been identified with regard to grape toxicity.
    I have edited a long-ish article about it below
    Tartaric acid and its salt, potassium bitartrate, are proposed to be the toxic principles in grapes leading to acute kidney failure in dogs. Tartaric acid levels in grapes vary in concentration with type, growing conditions, and degree of ripeness, which may explain why it has been so hard to pinpoint the toxic dose and predict the outcome for dogs that have eaten grapes based on the amount consumed.
    Recently a group of vets in the USA noted a pattern of dogs exposed to potassium bitartrate (cream of tartar) exhibiting similar clinical signs to grape and raisin toxicosis (acute vomiting and kidney failure). In one dog that had eaten home-made play-dough (made with cream of tartar) and subsequently died, microscopic changes noted in the kidney were also similar to those previously found in grape and raisin poisonings. They also noted that the Animal Poison Control Centre had reports of severe vomiting and acute renal failure in dogs following large exposures to tamarinds, which are also uniquely high in tartaric acid.

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