Sick kitten

My one female cat had her (last thankfully) litter of kittens a month and a half ago. There was a litter of 5 but early on while we were gone something went wrong with one and we came back to find him gone =(. Now though I've noticed that not long after I got my three males fixed one of the kittens eyes had been tearing up badly and in the inner corner I can see that the tear duct of the one is swollen. This exact same thing happened with one of the cats in her first litter so all I did was kept it from crusting shut but left it alone otherwise and didn't worry about it (it ended up being an ulcer that we took care of and is healed). Now though his nose is running and he's been sneezing often. I'm not quite sure what I can do right now to help him until I can get him to a vet to get looked at. He's still eating and drinking fine, in fact he's even eating hard food and weening himself off mama (by his own doing lol she tries her best to get him to feed from her and he'd rather eat out of the food bowl and drink the water). 

One of my senior cats were also sneezing pretty bad to but I gave him some chicken broth and that put an end to that after a dew day. This all started after I brought my boys home from the vet so I'm also wondering if maybe they brought something home on them.

Quite likely came from the vet.

The biggest issue is, the kittens are so young, and will very likely all come down with it, a uri, the 2 most common of course (herpevirus and calicivirus) are for life.

Kittens who get this MUST get antibiotics to prevent a secondary infection/pneumonia which will take their life.

You should be able to take just one or more to the vet and charged for just the one visit, and he will likely give you enough for everyone.

The kittens will have their own bottle, as each adult.

If it is done now, before it gets to all of them, it's best. It can get pretty ugly when the kittens get sick and stop eating/drinking, they get dehydrated, lethargic and head straight downhill very fast. Once their nose gets stuffy they can no longer smell and won't eat.

They should be put on clavamox liquid, as soon as possible.

Agree with Catwoman 100%.  The reason she suggested the liquid clavamox is its much easier to give than a pill.  Depending on the kittens' age the vet may want to prescribe a gentler version called Amoxicillin.  With treatment, and appetite support if needed, they will be fine.

It will also help if you add L-lysine to the mama's food.   This will suppress any growth of herpes if it IS herpes and will not hurt anything if it is not.  It has little taste, just kind of salty.  You can crush a tablet between two spoons..  Search our Health forum for many articles about it.  It's just an amino acid but it interferes with the herpes virus growth and stops it from multiplying.

Thanks, is there anything I can do at home to ease the symptoms for a day or two until I can get him into a vet? I know how quick a kitten can go once they stop eating and drinking and I'm worried. Even though he's still eating and drinking like a fiend just those couple days could still be to late. 

Luckily he's still eating and drinking, and playing when his siblings decide to wake him. Mostly though he's sleeping, but I noticed that kitties with eye problems seem to prefer to just sleep and lay down rather than run around and run into things though. I do however still have some Amoxicillin I think from when one of my other cats had a problem with his eye that one vet completely misdiagnosed. That was the cat with the ulcer on his eye that I mentioned. One vet gave him antibiotics and said it was gonna need removed. The other gave me a topical cream and said it was an ulcer and it would be fine. (He still has both eyes =) ) So I took him off the antibiotics and still have some if those will help.

Well his name is now officially Muffin and I was finally able to talk to a  vet over the phone to get some answers of what I can do til I can take him (and his siblings for that matter just in case) in. Yes the meds I got previously for Garfield for his misdiagnosis were fine for the few days as well as a small amount of chicken broth and wet cat food to get through to his stuffy nose scent wise. Now he's on the mend already after only one dose of it and a good healthy meal of cat food, feedings from mama, plenty of water, and wet cat food =). (Yeah he's a happy baby as are his siblings) They're still going to the vet though, like it or not lol. 

I was going to suggest l-lysine as well.  We use it on every bowl of food for my fosters and does help with the "eye gunk" and nasal congestion caused by the herpes virus.  I buy the capsules, so you just pop it open and sprinkle it on the food.  It won't hurt your cat to take it, and it could be very beneficial.