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My cat Casper started producing bright yellow urine about ten weeks ago. Looking back, I think he'd been a bit off his food for a little while beforehand, and lacking a bit of energy. A few days later he went off his food almost completely and just sat in the same spot on the sofa all day. We managed to get him eating a reasonable amount by trying out all the commercial foods from the surrounding shops (he usually eats fresh organic chicken thighs and salmon plus a bit of cod).
Based on the bright yellow urine, we assumed he had a liver issue. After a few days and some research, I started giving him some supplements in a syringe a couple of times a day - silymarin, SAMe, vitamin C, liquorice, dandelion, fulvic/humic minerals, B vitamins, resveratrol, astragalus and possible a couple of others. He developed a cough and we were worried he may have inhaled some of the liquid from the syringe so we went to the local vet to get it checked out as I read some horror stories online about aspiration pneumonia. The vet said there was nothing in his lungs but said his liver was swollen and did some blood tests. They showed up a problem with the liver: high bilirubin, high enzymes, high total blood protein. The rest was okay apart from slightly elevated creatinine. This can, I understand, suggest some kidney weakness, but can also indicate dehydration (I don't think he was dehydrated, though) or a high-protein diet, and he definitely has a high protein diet (pure fresh organic meat, usually). The vet wanted to start the invasive diagnostic procedures - biopsy, scans (requiring anaesthesia) etc. - but we don't believe in that approach.
I continued the supplement regime - this time making up a capsule instead of using liquid. Three times a day I have been giving him an acid-resistant capsule containing SAMe, silymarin, low-dose resveratrol (apparently more effective), liposomal vitamin C, liposomal glutathione, liposomal curcumin (all apparently efficacious LipoCellTech powders), vitamin E, methylated B vitamins, reishi, cordyceps, astaxanthin, pycnogenol, zinc and astragalus. I also add taurine, carnitine, arginine, choline and ubiquinol to his "natural" (a hormone-free, pesticide-free and preservative-free chicken breast food called Applaws) commercial food. I put a little blob of fresh (recently thawed, refrigerated) royal jelly on his nose a couple of times a day. I also got a high-power near infrared light which I use once a day on either side of his abdomen, and I use our iMRS very low-intensity PEMF system on him twice a day too. A well-respected homeopath from India called Dr Makker, who I reached out to, took his case and suggested some remedies which I followed: Phosphorous and Cholcicum, plus Absinthum later on, then Chelidonium on my suggestion.
About six weeks after day one, Casper suddenly improved. Instead of lying on the floor all day on our mini BioMat, he one evening decided to jump up on just about every surface in the house, and returned to his normal affection levels, coming onto my lap. His appetite stabilised (albeit only now accepting the new commercial food), and he has been pretty much like that for the last month. He has put some weight on having lost quite a bit.
One strange - or maybe totally expected - thing is that Casper has always had some skin irritation: an itchy shoulder blade which he sometimes scratches till it bleeds, frequently itchy ears and feline acne round his chin. But before the liver symptoms appeared, the skin conditions completely vanished - no itching, no acne. So, in homeopathic terms, perhaps the disease went inwards? Or the stronger liver disease overwhelmed the more superficial skin problems? Since he's seemed better, the skin symptoms have all come back - he's got a scab on his back where he's scratched it. Having tried so many things to get rid of the skin issues (switching diet to eliminate chicken, herbal supplements like nettle, colloidal silver etc.), I'm now glad to see them come back.
However, his urine is still yellow. And the last couple of days it has been very foamy (it had been a bit bubbly for a while). Also, for the past week he has been having occasional sips of water. When he was less himself for the first six weeks, he occasionally had a couple of days where he would sip some water, but this stopped when his energy and vibrancy recovered, until this past week. I've tested his urine with dipsticks multiple times and the bilirubin seems to have come right down (apparently vitamin c can give a false negative, but only at lower levels of bilirubin, so there would definitely seem to be an improvement in this) so the yellow wee is a mystery. Also, there only seems to be trace protein. Usually, foaminess is attributed to protein (though I've read a study that disputes this), so this is a bit of a mystery too. Also, the dipsticks sometimes show blood in the urine, but sometimes not. I routinely pause the supplements and his urine is still yellow, so I don't think it's the vitamin C or B complex.
So I'm wondering: Does this point to an infection? An exacerbation of the liver issues? A kidney problem expressing itself now the liver issue is better (his creatinine was slightly raised, but his specific gravity is good according to the dipsticks)? A healing response? Could one or more of the supplements or treatments have had an unwanted or too-powerful effect?
When Casper suddenly perked up he had been having the Chelidonium 30c. I stopped this to let any healing response play out. I have been occasionally giving him a dose when I think his symptoms have got a bit worse or not been improving. I have today just given him one dose of Sulphur 200c as I read in a materia medica that Sulphur can "complete the work" of Chelidonium, and can also act as an intercurrent remedy, for complicated cases, or ones that go backwards and forwards.
Any thoughts, anyone? I'd be really grateful.
Thank you.
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Based on the bright yellow urine, we assumed he had a liver issue. After a few days and some research, I started giving him some supplements in a syringe a couple of times a day - silymarin, SAMe, vitamin C, liquorice, dandelion, fulvic/humic minerals, B vitamins, resveratrol, astragalus and possible a couple of others. He developed a cough and we were worried he may have inhaled some of the liquid from the syringe so we went to the local vet to get it checked out as I read some horror stories online about aspiration pneumonia. The vet said there was nothing in his lungs but said his liver was swollen and did some blood tests. They showed up a problem with the liver: high bilirubin, high enzymes, high total blood protein. The rest was okay apart from slightly elevated creatinine. This can, I understand, suggest some kidney weakness, but can also indicate dehydration (I don't think he was dehydrated, though) or a high-protein diet, and he definitely has a high protein diet (pure fresh organic meat, usually). The vet wanted to start the invasive diagnostic procedures - biopsy, scans (requiring anaesthesia) etc. - but we don't believe in that approach.
I continued the supplement regime - this time making up a capsule instead of using liquid. Three times a day I have been giving him an acid-resistant capsule containing SAMe, silymarin, low-dose resveratrol (apparently more effective), liposomal vitamin C, liposomal glutathione, liposomal curcumin (all apparently efficacious LipoCellTech powders), vitamin E, methylated B vitamins, reishi, cordyceps, astaxanthin, pycnogenol, zinc and astragalus. I also add taurine, carnitine, arginine, choline and ubiquinol to his "natural" (a hormone-free, pesticide-free and preservative-free chicken breast food called Applaws) commercial food. I put a little blob of fresh (recently thawed, refrigerated) royal jelly on his nose a couple of times a day. I also got a high-power near infrared light which I use once a day on either side of his abdomen, and I use our iMRS very low-intensity PEMF system on him twice a day too. A well-respected homeopath from India called Dr Makker, who I reached out to, took his case and suggested some remedies which I followed: Phosphorous and Cholcicum, plus Absinthum later on, then Chelidonium on my suggestion.
About six weeks after day one, Casper suddenly improved. Instead of lying on the floor all day on our mini BioMat, he one evening decided to jump up on just about every surface in the house, and returned to his normal affection levels, coming onto my lap. His appetite stabilised (albeit only now accepting the new commercial food), and he has been pretty much like that for the last month. He has put some weight on having lost quite a bit.
One strange - or maybe totally expected - thing is that Casper has always had some skin irritation: an itchy shoulder blade which he sometimes scratches till it bleeds, frequently itchy ears and feline acne round his chin. But before the liver symptoms appeared, the skin conditions completely vanished - no itching, no acne. So, in homeopathic terms, perhaps the disease went inwards? Or the stronger liver disease overwhelmed the more superficial skin problems? Since he's seemed better, the skin symptoms have all come back - he's got a scab on his back where he's scratched it. Having tried so many things to get rid of the skin issues (switching diet to eliminate chicken, herbal supplements like nettle, colloidal silver etc.), I'm now glad to see them come back.
However, his urine is still yellow. And the last couple of days it has been very foamy (it had been a bit bubbly for a while). Also, for the past week he has been having occasional sips of water. When he was less himself for the first six weeks, he occasionally had a couple of days where he would sip some water, but this stopped when his energy and vibrancy recovered, until this past week. I've tested his urine with dipsticks multiple times and the bilirubin seems to have come right down (apparently vitamin c can give a false negative, but only at lower levels of bilirubin, so there would definitely seem to be an improvement in this) so the yellow wee is a mystery. Also, there only seems to be trace protein. Usually, foaminess is attributed to protein (though I've read a study that disputes this), so this is a bit of a mystery too. Also, the dipsticks sometimes show blood in the urine, but sometimes not. I routinely pause the supplements and his urine is still yellow, so I don't think it's the vitamin C or B complex.
So I'm wondering: Does this point to an infection? An exacerbation of the liver issues? A kidney problem expressing itself now the liver issue is better (his creatinine was slightly raised, but his specific gravity is good according to the dipsticks)? A healing response? Could one or more of the supplements or treatments have had an unwanted or too-powerful effect?
When Casper suddenly perked up he had been having the Chelidonium 30c. I stopped this to let any healing response play out. I have been occasionally giving him a dose when I think his symptoms have got a bit worse or not been improving. I have today just given him one dose of Sulphur 200c as I read in a materia medica that Sulphur can "complete the work" of Chelidonium, and can also act as an intercurrent remedy, for complicated cases, or ones that go backwards and forwards.
Any thoughts, anyone? I'd be really grateful.
Thank you.
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