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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

4312.0. "REINTRODUCING MYSELF AND THE BOYS!" by KERNEL::LEYLANDS (Sharon Leyland, SUK IT Support) Wed Jan 16 1991 08:27

    Hello folks
    
    I thought it was about time I re-introduced myself into this notes
    conference.  My name is Sharon Leyland - some of you may remember
    me as Sharon Taylor (I got married in August last year!)  I have
    two little boys (well not so little now...Dillan is 8 and Sammie
    is 7).
    
    You may also remember my notes on Key Gaskell syndrome a few years
    ago...if not, no worries.
    
    Anyway I thought I'd post a note to see if anyone knows of a link
    between Gingivitis and Kidney infections...I saw the other note
    regarding a link between Gingivitis and UTI but I don't think thats
    the same thing.  Dillan had Gingivitis a few months ago, so I took
    him to the vets and he had some antibiotics and all seemed to clear
    up.
    
    About 2 weeks ago I noticed he was drinking water (he has never
    been one for drinking water...not even out of puddles...infact the
    only thing I have ever seen him drink is the occasional saucer of
    milk as a treat).  Then he was sick - no grass!!! So back to the
    vets we went and I find that one of his Kidneys is inflamed = more
    antibiotics + anabolic steroids!  But also his gingivitis has
    reappeared to which the vet said that it is the kidney trouble causing
    his saliva to turn acid and hense the gingivitis!
    
    Now...what I'm wondering is - could he have had kidney trouble before
    when he had gingivitis  ie.. kidney trouble causing it or could
    it be the gingivitis causing kidney trouble???
    
    Any comments/advice welcome!
    
    Sharon
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4312.1TENAYA::KOLLINGKaren/Sweetie/Holly/Little Bit Ca.Wed Jan 16 1991 16:528
    I know that when I had LB in at the vet's for FUS recently, he
    said to put off cleaning his teeth until the FUS was well cleared
    up, because he didn't want bacteria floating around in his system
    when the gums might be vulnerable.  The knee bone's connected
    to the thigh bone.  the thigh bone's connected to the .... I
    guess that's what it is.  Please let us know how Dillan is
    doing.
    
4312.2CRUISE::NDCPutiput Scottish Folds DTN:297-2313Thu Jan 17 1991 07:4611
    re: kidney infection vs UTI - UTI is Urinary track infection and
    the kidneys are certainly part of the urinary track.  A UTI may
    include infection of the kidneys but it doesn't have to.
    
    It makes sense to me that if the kidneys are infected they 
    wouldn't work as they are supposed to and the presence of 
    substances in the system that would normally be removed by a
    healthy kidney would result in a change in bodily secretions,
    like saliva.  
    
    Interesting.......
4312.3Update...KERNEL::LEYLANDSSharon Leyland, SUK IT SupportFri Jan 18 1991 05:1518
    Thanks for the replies, it certainly does seem as though the two
    are connected...I wonder why he wasn't showing any symptoms of kidney
    trouble the first time???
    
    I have to take him back to the vet when he has finished his anabolic
    steroids (just over a week left) unless he gets worse, which he
    hasn't...in fact he's more lively now than he has been for a long
    time - no wonder Ben Johnson won the race!!!!sorry!
    
    I just feel sorry for Sammie as Dillan keeps lying in wait and mugging
    him.  I got home last night to find a mountain of Sammie's jet black
    fur at the bottom of the stairs, half way up the stairs and on the
    landing...I don't even want to think about what happened??!!??
    
    I'll let you all know how I get on at the vets when I take him back.
    
    Sharon, Dillan and Sammie (UK)
    
4312.4TENAYA::KOLLINGKaren/Sweetie/Holly/Little Bit Ca.Fri Jan 18 1991 13:527
    My vet once told me, when I remarked on the large amount of
    shedding that my cats do in the vet's office,. that a
    sort of "voluntary" shedding of fur takes place in fight/fright
    situations, his guess was that it was actually a defense
    mechanism to prevent wounds or something.  So, it probably
    isn't like its being ripped out by the roots.
    
4312.5hair, hair everywhere...TYGON::WILDEillegal possession of a GNUFri Jan 18 1991 17:239
when Hannah and The Flash are "rough-housing" around the place, tufts of white
hair float around everywhere....seeing the "remains" without seeing the action
would convince anyone that we have a reall hassle here - but the girls are
just wrestling a little.  My house looks like I've plucked a cat every night
when I get home from work....oh well, they seem to have lots more where that
came from...8^}

I wouldn't worry about the cat hair unless I started seeing cat skin...then,
off to the vet.