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Originally Posted by Peachy Wolf27
• Which symptoms should your cat have? Tiredness, trouble thinking, trouble processing things, and maybe constant hunger, also any other symptoms that might be in an illness/condition like this • Do you want a genetic or acquired illness/condition? I don’t know xD • How many moons is this cat? Is it a certain breed? 6 moons old, not a specic breed • What's the cat past? How/where does it live now? He is ShadowClan, and he was abandoned by his parents when he was very young and only just made an apprentice not long ago. • Has it already some condition/other problems? Idk if this counts but he has anxiety :] • What should the outcome of the illness/condition be? He should survive it, but maybe have some aftereffects that last for the rest of his life. • Is there a bigger plot around the illness/condition? No just for a bit of long-term drama
Honestly, this isn't very easy as you are asking for neurological symptoms that have either to go away on their own or be cured by the medicine cat.
What I've found right now may still be helpful, but let me know if you'd prefer something else. Tick diseases: there are many different diseases caused by tick bites that cause the cat to show a large variety of symptoms, including:
-Fever
-Lack of appetite
-Joint pain and swelling, lameness, and/or trouble walking
-Weight loss
-Lethargy
-Anemia (blood loss) and secondary bruising, which may be noticed as pale gums, bloody stools, and/or bloody nose
-Jaundice (yellowing of the skin, eyes, or gums)
-Large, painful, and swollen lymph nodes
-Irritation, redness, and itching around the bite site
-Changes in meow
-Difficulty swallowing
-Weakness or diminished movement that usually starts in your cat’s hindlimbs and quickly moves to its forelimbs and possibly the diaphragm. This is known as tick paralysis.
Since these problems are treated with antibiotics, I can't tell you exactly how the cat can come out of it on their own. What I suggest is: choose mild symptoms and don't let them persist too much; then the medicine cat should find the tick and remove it. You can have the symptoms go away on their own after some time, or have the medicine cat give them something casually.
Re: Need information about a cat's health? Click here!
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Originally Posted by Wingnettle
Honestly, this isn't very easy as you are asking for neurological symptoms that have either to go away on their own or be cured by the medicine cat.
What I've found right now may still be helpful, but let me know if you'd prefer something else. Tick diseases: there are many different diseases caused by tick bites that cause the cat to show a large variety of symptoms, including:
-Fever
-Lack of appetite
-Joint pain and swelling, lameness, and/or trouble walking
-Weight loss
-Lethargy
-Anemia (blood loss) and secondary bruising, which may be noticed as pale gums, bloody stools, and/or bloody nose
-Jaundice (yellowing of the skin, eyes, or gums)
-Large, painful, and swollen lymph nodes
-Irritation, redness, and itching around the bite site
-Changes in meow
-Difficulty swallowing
-Weakness or diminished movement that usually starts in your cat’s hindlimbs and quickly moves to its forelimbs and possibly the diaphragm. This is known as tick paralysis.
Since these problems are treated with antibiotics, I can't tell you exactly how the cat can come out of it on their own. What I suggest is: choose mild symptoms and don't let them persist too much; then the medicine cat should find the tick and remove it. You can have the symptoms go away on their own after some time, or have the medicine cat give them something casually.
I was planning on one of my characters developing cancer and might you know some stages of it?
It depends, cancers can have a LOTS of effects on various organs and it depends on 1. The type, 2. The location, 3. Other stuff such as the cat's age, its immune system... you need to come up with more details! Would you mind using the form on the first post?
Re: Need information about a cat's health? Click here!
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Originally Posted by Wingnettle
It depends, cancers can have a LOTS of effects on various organs and it depends on 1. The type, 2. The location, 3. Other stuff such as the cat's age, its immune system... you need to come up with more details! Would you mind using the form on the first post?
• Which symptoms should your cat have?
Thats what im here to learn
• Do you want a genetic or acquired illness/condition?
Acquired?
• How many moons is this cat? Is it a certain breed?
(This is for a future thing) Around the age of 25-28 moons and he's a bengal (Silver Charcoal Bengal)
• What's the cat past? How/where does it live now?
(Working on his past/ is current) More detail please?
• Has it already some condition/other problems?
No (Future problem)
• What should the outcome of the illness/condition be?
Explain more? (If you mean if they survuve then probablly not)
• Is there a bigger plot around the illness/condition?
Sorry if this is really vauge but i have a hard time understanding stuff and need a better way of explaining? :')
And
1. The type, 2. The location, 3. Other stuff such as the cat's age, its immune system
1. Most likly Lymphoma
2. intestines maybe?
3. This is a future project and he'll be around the age of 25-28 moons
My questions:
How would a cat get it and what are its symptoms? How long would it take before it becomes very serious? Is there a way he could get cured in the wco world? (I probably won't want him to survive this due to not wanting to many characters future wise and i dont mean to sound cruel about this )
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Re: Need information about a cat's health? Click here!
Hello!
So... you are talking about Lymphosarcoma.
Cancers can be born for many different reasons, for example a physical trauma or chemical/toxic damage against cells, but most often it arises naturally after some "mistakes" the cells do. (No one is perfect.)
You have specifically wrote about the intestinal form. In that case, the symptoms would regard the gastrointestinal tract and according to this website: Cats with lymphoma who are not treated with chemotherapy have an average survival time of 4 weeks once the diagnosis has been made.
And this: Cats with gastrointestinal lymphoma show weight loss, decreased appetite, vomiting, and/or diarrhea. Cats with large cell gastrointestinal lymphoma tend to have a rapid onset of signs (days or weeks) versus cats with small cell gastrointestinal lymphoma that usually have chronic signs (months).
No, this cancer can't be cured in any other way other than chemotherapy. In fact, even cats that receive this therapy have a shorted expected lifespan: Between 50%-75% of cats with gastrointestinal large cell lymphoma receiving CHOP chemotherapy respond to treatment and their prognosis is between 6-9 months. Cats that achieve a complete remission live longer than those achieving a partial remission and a small percentage can live more than 2 years.
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Re: Need information about a cat's health? Click here!
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Originally Posted by Wingnettle
Hello!
So... you are talking about Lymphosarcoma.
Cancers can be born for many different reasons, for example a physical trauma or chemical/toxic damage against cells, but most often it arises naturally after some "mistakes" the cells do. (No one is perfect.)
You have specifically wrote about the intestinal form. In that case, the symptoms would regard the gastrointestinal tract and according to this website: Cats with lymphoma who are not treated with chemotherapy have an average survival time of 4 weeks once the diagnosis has been made.
And this: Cats with gastrointestinal lymphoma show weight loss, decreased appetite, vomiting, and/or diarrhea. Cats with large cell gastrointestinal lymphoma tend to have a rapid onset of signs (days or weeks) versus cats with small cell gastrointestinal lymphoma that usually have chronic signs (months).
No, this cancer can't be cured in any other way other than chemotherapy. In fact, even cats that receive this therapy have a shorted expected lifespan: Between 50%-75% of cats with gastrointestinal large cell lymphoma receiving CHOP chemotherapy respond to treatment and their prognosis is between 6-9 months. Cats that achieve a complete remission live longer than those achieving a partial remission and a small percentage can live more than 2 years.
@prancer
Well... this is not a medical question and I've never heard of such phobia, in fact it seems that no official word exists. But you know, you can always invent one and maybe talk about it with your medicine cat. You might get it to become official from them, who knows.
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