FHV spontaneous recovery/improvement?

Hi. Without much ado, there's a litter of Feral kittens in my neighbourhood who have their mother but appear to be infected with FHV according to the vet. The symptoms are primarily manifested in their eyes. Their respiratory tract seems well according to the vet although I did hear a few minor sneezes in one of them that made me worry. Anyhow.

Later tonight I passed by them and looked at their eyes and there was marginal improvement in the ulcerations/inflammations. They haven't been taking any medicines but I've been feeding them. I thought it odd because my vet said they're unlikely to improve unless someone can dedicate the time to their treatment. And yet I saw a very little improvement (thank God)


My Question here is, have any of you heard of a case, or even better, a DOCUMENTED case where FHV symptoms heal/abate/even slightly improve without medical treatment, only with improved nutrition (apparently malnutrition is one of the causes?) and regular water?





 

I'm just guessing here, but did a Vet diagnose this just based on someone (you perhaps?) telling them what the kittens eyes looked like, but not actually examining them?  Perhaps an educated guess, but a guess none the less? 

If the above is true, then maybe they don't really have FHV, maybe they have a URI (not that that's not worrisome too). 

I, personally, have not heard of a case of FHV improving without any treatment at all, especially in young kittens, but hoping by bumping the thread up, others will see it and perhaps someone else HAS.  Certainly better nutrition cannot hurt!  

Thanks for the reply. No the vet came and took a look. He even used a stethoscope to listen closely to their breathing (which was surprisingly fine, since FHV usually affects respiration.) He's a junior vet and can't have graduated more than 1 or 2 years ago if that has any significance.

Wow, a Vet that makes kind of house calls!  I say "kind of" because you said they were feral, so I guess they are outside.  That's cool

So are you feeding just the mama, or are the kittens old enough to be eating regular food too?  If so, could you put in L-Lysine into their food, or if not, guess you could add it to mama's food, and it could get into the kittens' food via her milk.  Guess that's better than nothing.  What did the Vet advise?