novo-lexin

Has anyone ever had to give their cats novo-lexin?

My little one has had an upper respiratory infection for the last 4 months, hes doing the lysine pumps (4X a day) he did 4 weeks clavamox and 1 week of batril. We saw minor improvements, but after a week we are back to square one = severe congestion, coughing, sneezing, watery eye...

He got blood tested tonight, leukemia and a full blood test and they told me they would call me by 9 if anything suspicious came up, they didnt call so I'm assuming that is in the clear (thank god).

My vet just perscribed a combination of zeniquil and novo-lexin, I know that zeniquil is a pretty strong antibiotic and I found some information on it, but i cant seem to find anything for novo-lexin. Its a powder that is mixed with water to form a pink liquid that needs to be stored in the fridge.

Anyone have any insight or information?

Thanks!

Novo-Lexin is Cephalexin which is normally used for skin infections.  Zeniquil is a very powerful antibiotic.  Have they ran a culture/sensitivity to see exactly what is going on and which antibiotics it would respond to.  I am dealing with a similar situation in my Munchie cat, he has been on Doxycylcine, Amoxicillin and Zeniquin and he still has the sneezies and discharge and congestion.  We are waiting for him to be off antibiotics for 5 days so he can have a culture ran.

they took mucuous from his nose and ran a sample, is this what you mean by culture/sensitivity?

Probably not, a culture/sensitivity is where they take a sample and send it to an outside lab.  The outside lab then cultures it on a growth plate and determines exactly what grows so they can tell you what type of infection it is whether it is Mycoplasma or something else.  It usually takes about a week to 10 days to get the results back.   Then they test the bacteria against several different antibiotics to see if the antibiotics kill it or if the bacteria is resistant to a certain antibiotic.  The cat has to be off of all antibiotics for 5 days before they can run the culture.