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Treatment
This is a painful condition, so attention will be given to your cat's comfort level and steps will be taken to encourage the appetite. Concurrent disorders will also be treated.
Dietary changes are typically recommended. Your cat may require tube feeding for a while until its condition has sufficiently improved. Your doctor may also prescribe Vitamin E and possibly corticosteroids to reduce inflammation. Temporarily removing all fish products from the diet and focusing on a nutritionally complete, balanced, commercially-prepared food diet is one of the first steps. Surgical treatment may involve draining the lump, or full removal of the lump. Antibiotics will be prescribed if the lump is found to be infected, or to prevent infection after treatment.
To avoid further complications that can result from licking and biting at a healing wound, your veterinarian may advise you to keep an Elizabethan collar on your cat until the wound has fully healed.
Prevention
Feed a commercial diet that is balanced to meet all of your cat's dietary needs.
Living and Management
It may require weeks to months for resolution of this condition, but the prognosis is good once the primary cause of the steatitis has been treated and an appropriate diet is established.
prognosis
The prediction of a disease’s outcome in advance
subcutaneous
Found underneath the dermis
urinalysis
An in-depth examination of the properties of urine; used to determine the presence or absence of illness
pathology
The study of the causes and development of disease
palpation
Examination through feeling
idiopathic
Relating to a disease of unknown origin, which may or may not have arisen spontaneously
necrosis
A condition of dead tissue
antioxidant
Term used to describe certain feeds; refers to c or anything else that contains compounds that prevent the process of oxidization.
