Friends have been having cat problems all week. first cat had kidney and liver problems and the cost was 1500 to fix and the original owners of cat took it back. The next cat, which used to live at my house, fell out of a tree and broke its arm, and the third cat....the third cat all of a sudden went blind. Normally a frisky and active cat...now afraid and cautious and probably confused....

I'm going over there to give the broken arm cat sympt and the calc remedy....what should I bring along for the blind cat?

Since the other cat has been gone..the other two cats have been sleeping together...and they never did this before...so the sudden blindness may have something to do with the trauma of the missing cat. Would that point to ignatia?

[ 02. January 2003, 18:47: Message edited by: carolorr ]

Arnica 200? Did it happen quite suddenly? Could she have fallen off something. Although cats have a fantastic "righting" ability in midair, sometimes things go wrong. We had a kitten go blind after falling off a door top. It landed on its head. That was way back and he was given a steroid injection and his sight returned within an hour or two. Recently I had posted about a cat that had an accident where she probably suffered from oxygen deprevation. She too went blind, reverted where she couldn't feed herself, was dazed and confused etc. Arnica 200 put her right. Good luck (Another remedy I've used with success was Sil). I've never heard of grief induced blindness, that doesn't make sense to me.

With rubric "sudden blindness" (alone, no sub rubrics used or history) might want to look at Bell.

Below from Boger-Boenninghausen:
Vision; Blindness; sudden, vanishing of (86) : acon., agar., am-c., anac., ant-c., ant-t., arn., ars., asar., aur., bar-c., BELL., Bry., CALC., cann-s., caps., caust., cham., chel., Chin., CIC., cimic., cocc., Con., croc., cycl., dig., dros., dulc., euph., euphr., ferr., Gels., Graph., guai., hep., Hyos., iod., kali-bi., kali-c., kali-n., kalm., lach., laur., lil-t., lith-c., Lyc., mag-c., mang., MERC., mosch., mur-ac., nat-c., NAT-M., nit-ac., nux-m., Nux-v., olnd., OP., petr., ph-ac., PHOS., phyt., plat., plb., psor., Puls., rhus-t., Ruta, sang., sars., sec., seneg., Sep., SIL., spig., staph., Stram., stront-c., SULPH., Tab., thuj., valer., verat., viol-o., zinc.

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Wow, so many choices! In Murphy:
Vision, Blindness, sudden:
acon
aur-m
calc
china
cuprum
mosch
nat-mur(2)
phos
psor
sec

Nat-mur seems the front-runner, and as a back-up I would take aconite along with me.

Snoopy

[ 02. January 2003, 19:53: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

I'd go with aconite first for our scared, blind kitty.

Barb

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I gave the aconite yesterday...no change....I gave nat mur today. They gave me more information..the cat's eyes are very dialated. The vet said there was fatty tissue behind the eye? And that even if the sight came back...there would be blurry vision. Does this dialation point to belladonna..plus the suddenness..if the nat mur doesn't do anything.

Carol - the dilation does point to bell IMHO - any other bell symptoms to confirm?

If I were you I would give Bell next and watch - does the pupil dilate or contract when exposed to light?

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Really should have more information! Confusion is to be expected in sudden blindness, as would loss of "friskiness". Eyes dilated, but are they fixed? I don't know but wouldn't dilated pupils be expected? Whites of eyes? Any head tilt, eye/nasal discharges, seeking warm/cold, thirst, appetite, restlessness, wanting comfort? Vitals normal? Any symptoms leading up to the loss, other than the loss of companion? (When will people learn how very attached animals are to their friends, human and non-human and what horrid trauma it is for them to lose them?)

What potencies were used and what, if any repetitions?

With no information other than sudden blindness, I would have gone with either Bell or Arn, figuring either head trauma or stroke. Probably Bell first. I wouldn't expect a one dose 30 to be sufficient at this point but may be a starting place. If it was still "fresh", I'd have repeated 30 rather frequently at first, then judged what was going on.

Unless there is a chance it isn't "sudden" but just noticed. I don't know the implications of the fatty tissue.

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Sorry. I didn't see Barb's post. I started to type, went off to do some things....by the time I get back, my post is out of date!

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Carol, The vet said "fatty tissue"??? Did he suggest fluid? swelling, inflamation? Guys I think this needs to be addressed....