What can I do for my cat’s asthma?

Posted by on November 25, 2007 · 1 Comment 

Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: My kitty has been diagnosed with asthma. I’ve been giving him prednisone for a short time but he is still wheezing. Is there something else I can do for him? ~Kelly Siouxsie: Asthma is a frightening illness, both for the cat and for the cat’s human caretaker. Thomas: As you’ve probably been told, feline asthma is similar to human asthma and is treated in similar ways. But vets haven’t found a 100% correlation between human and feline asthma. Dahlia: Basically, asthma is a condition that occurs when a cat’s respiratory tract overreacts to an environmental stimulus. The air passages in the lungs constrict, making breathing more difficult, and sometimes…

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