Hi! I'm new to this website, I just found it through a Google search. I'm hoping someone can offer some advice.
On July 7th, I adopted a 12 week old kitten from the local shelter. I didn't notice any issues while at the shelter and none were mentioned to me. The afternoon I brought him home, I noticed that he had a runny eye, but was otherwise fine. I thought maybe it was the change in environment and that it would go away. A couple of days later he started sneezing and coughing, so I took him to the vet. They said he had an URI and put him on Clavamox. The sneezing and coughing went away, but he still had a runny eye. After he finished the antibiotic, they put him on an antibiotic eye ointment for a week, but he still had the runny eye. We went back to the vet and they did a stain of his eye and could find no issues, and they put him on steroid eye drops for a week. It seem to improve a little and when we took him in for a recheck they said to continue the eye drops for another week. At the end of that week they eye was running really bad again, so they put him on Terramycin ointment. There was no change and since he was squinting quite a lot the vet wanted me to bring him in again. They stained the eye again and found nothing. They flipped his eyelids up looking for ulcer or possible eyelash growing in the wrong direction, but still found nothing. He is now on Prednisone and the steroid eye drops again, but I'm not seeing any improvement. It's so frustrating that it's almost been 2 months and he is not getting any better. I feel so bad for him because his eye is constantly running and dripping and it dries on his little check and gets all crusty. I try to keep it clean as much as I can with warm washcloths, but his doesn't really like that.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Does it normally take this long for something like this to get better? Is there anything else I could do or should do that might help?
Thank you.
On July 7th, I adopted a 12 week old kitten from the local shelter. I didn't notice any issues while at the shelter and none were mentioned to me. The afternoon I brought him home, I noticed that he had a runny eye, but was otherwise fine. I thought maybe it was the change in environment and that it would go away. A couple of days later he started sneezing and coughing, so I took him to the vet. They said he had an URI and put him on Clavamox. The sneezing and coughing went away, but he still had a runny eye. After he finished the antibiotic, they put him on an antibiotic eye ointment for a week, but he still had the runny eye. We went back to the vet and they did a stain of his eye and could find no issues, and they put him on steroid eye drops for a week. It seem to improve a little and when we took him in for a recheck they said to continue the eye drops for another week. At the end of that week they eye was running really bad again, so they put him on Terramycin ointment. There was no change and since he was squinting quite a lot the vet wanted me to bring him in again. They stained the eye again and found nothing. They flipped his eyelids up looking for ulcer or possible eyelash growing in the wrong direction, but still found nothing. He is now on Prednisone and the steroid eye drops again, but I'm not seeing any improvement. It's so frustrating that it's almost been 2 months and he is not getting any better. I feel so bad for him because his eye is constantly running and dripping and it dries on his little check and gets all crusty. I try to keep it clean as much as I can with warm washcloths, but his doesn't really like that.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Does it normally take this long for something like this to get better? Is there anything else I could do or should do that might help?
Thank you.
