11 week old kitten with a nose bleed

paigeallyn

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Is there any advice to be given for an 11 week old kitten with a nose bleed? This is the second time I have noticed that there is a little blood on his nose. My boyfriend thinks it might also be coming from inside his nose. I just looked again and on the edge there is a sore spot that is dark red. So I am wondering if was scratched. The first time I noticed was 1 to 3 days ago. We also have his sister, their mom, and a kitten that is probably 4 to 5 months old. The two kittens do play with the older kitten in a sort of rough playful way. We did look at the sisters nose, which is darker, and it looked like she possibly had some dried blood on the inside of her nose. They are still nursing, but eat cat food as well.

We have also noticed that they have fleas. Does anyone have any natural remedies?
 

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Kitten play can get rough.  It's possible that a claw may have scratched the inside or the outside of the nose.
 
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That's what I'm hoping for.
 

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The kittens are old enough for topical flea meds from the vet. Since you know they have fleas, I'd dose everyone with CapStar and then apply the topical the following day. CapStar will kill all adult fleas.

As for a natural remedy, you can bathe them in original blue Dawn. This will kill the adult fleas in them as well, and hopefully get the eggs/larva out of their fur. And you'll also need to vacuum, vacuum, vacuum and wash all their bedding/blankets.
 
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Thank you. We did bathe them all. We also bought a flea comb to see if we can pick some off that way. Probably going to take the little guy to the vet soon. Just found the third nose bleed earlier. This one is way worse.
 
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