Air Purifiers

Forcing you to shut all windows on that side of the house unless you wanted to inhale the smoke in your home and peeling paint from your house from the tanic acid of the smoke that made you have to touchup paint every year?

This stove is not exhausted to a chimney. Rather it is exhausted into a 6" pipe out the back side of their cement cellar, fumes pushed towards my house.

I run an air purifier and if I have it on and it sucks in that smoke from outside to push out clean air in my house, it cakes up and eventually puts out the smoky air….looks like ash on top. I just threw out the home made filter and I have to clean the fan in side too and the vent. The ash is so fine it makes it through a hepa filter and makes even finer particles move into the air that made it by that micron filter and makes us sick in this house if I don’t clean it thoroughly and change the filter. I try not to leave windows on that side of the house open when they are running that stove.

I have a 8 month old ASH. Since last week, his abdomen pumps up and down rapidly 3 to 4 times a day. Since it usually happens after he eats and he hasn’t been coughing, I thought he has digestion problem. Anyhow, I took him to the vet today and they took an x-ray…and the vet told me he has feline asthma. She showed me the x-ray and pointed out "donuts" and white calcified spot in his lungs. I cried so hard at the clinic.

The vet prescribed Prednisolone suspension 3 mg/ml twice a day (1 ml each time) for a week then decrease to once a day then decrease to once every other day. She also prescribed Cyproheptadine 1 mg/ml twice a day as well. She is also doing a fungal screen.

Can any one who has knowledge about feline asthma or has cats with feline asthma share some of your experience with me? Does the medications prescribed sound right? I checked online and it seems like 3 mg/ml twice a day for a 9 lbs cat is a little too much? Does he need to be on medications for the rest of his life? What else can I do to make to help him? I just bought two HEPA air purifiers and changed his litter from pine to yesterday’s news.

THANKS SO MUCH!!
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Thank you so much JC for sharing your experience with me! He started the medicine last night and I am still watching for any improvement.

My cat has been on Hills Science Diet Nature’s Best Dry Kitten Food and Natural Balance Ultra Premium. I added Royal Canin Kitten 36 to his diet last month and it seems like it triggers the asthma but I am not sure.

I have been trying to switch him to can food (tried Wellness, Hills, Nutro) a few times but he just didn’t want it. Do you have any suggestions and tricks?