Latifah

Latifah

I fostered Latifah for Tree House Animal Foundation from March 17, 2006 to October 20, 2006 to transition her to a low-carbohydrate diet and regulate her diabetes. I grew so enamoured with her, I adopted her on October 21, 2006.

Latifah has pancreatitis, stomatitis, and an intestinal disorder. However, she does well on a proper diet - primarily homemade raw food based on the recipes at CatInfo.org and CatNutrition.org. She does well on Dr. Hodgkins' treatment protocol for feline diabetes, and has gone over two weeks without needing insulin!

Latifah showed symptoms of hyper-thyroidism, so I took her to a specialty center for a special scan. The scan confirmed the hyper-thyroidism, although her T4 blood levels were normal. She had radioactive iodine treatment and the hyper-thyroidism resolved quickly. However, she still struggled with pancreatitis (which caused her diabetes to flare up on and off, and stomatitis). We found a regime of cyclosporine and Metacam (meloxicam) which worked to control her stomatitis fiarly well. She got famotadine (Pepcid AC) and sub-q fluids for the pancreatitis.

Unfortunately, I lost her February 16, 2008 due to something neurological, possibly a complication of the pancreatitis (or possible triaditis - pancreatitits, cholongiohepatitis, and IBD).