Hi everyone i'm not sure this is the place to ask but it seemed reasonable. I suspect my cat might have asthma. At first it always seemed like he wanted to cough up a hairball and just couldn't. He has short hair and I read some cats never have hairballs. Eventually I learned what a cat asthma attack looks like. What he does resembles it quite a bit. The sound and the posture especially. His behavior doesn't change either. It happens then he just goes back to normal after a minute or two. His heart rate and breathing are normal. I've only noticed one time I heard a wheeze type sound while he was sleeping if I put my head on him. He could have just been snoring though.
It lasts for about 10-20 seconds goes away and doesn't happen again for a few days to a few months. I love him to death but I can't afford to take him to a vet. Even regular checkups are expensive where I live. I don't have pet insurance either. Perhaps he's like me and it's seasonal. I don't really know.
However since I have seasonal asthma I have inhalers. I read cats use the same inhalers as humans with a cat spacer. I have 90 MCG Albuterol inhalers and 110mcg Flovent inhalers. Could I treat him with these if I bought a spacer without seeing a vet? Albuterol is for attacks while the Flovent ones are to keep your lungs open just to clarify. I only ever had bad asthma once and it never came back so I have a lot of spare ones. My doctor told me it's basically impossible to OD with an inhaler. That was for humans though.
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