Need some advice if applicable

A cat I took in and later found out to be pregnant had kittens before I could get her desexed. I plan to keep them and I found out after taking them to the vets due to one of the kittens eyes not opening properly when the other ones were that the kittens have feline AIDS. They gave me some antibiotics and some cream for the kittens eye.

I've noticed now that it's eye has opened more that it has a blob of discharge in its eye, when I wipe the crust that builds up its eyelid, it doesn't come out. I'm wondering if there is any safe sanitary way to remove the blob. It looks like sleep. Does anyone have experience with this. Does away on its own? Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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Here's another kitten photo to bump this thread.

Will release more cute kitten photos if anyone can help.

Our advisors may not be online right now though as we are all in different time zones. I have no experience, sorry.

I am looking at the picture of your kitten's eye. Is the antibiotic being given by mouth to the kitten. I wonder if this is a buildup of the cream that you are putting in the kittens eye.

This is the stuff, I gave them oral antibiotics as well but the container said to just give t to her twice a day for a week, on the container it says to give two squeezes of the 'ointment' per day and the vet said its fine as long as some gets in there and she showed me how to do it, I hope I haven't been giving them too much, the ointment is clearing, sort of a cloudy clear.

Also I'm pretty sure the light colour of the eye is due to the second eyelid being closed and the discharge I'm talking about is towards the left corner of the eye in the picture

Thank you both for your time.

Here's a better picture.

If it's eye was open wider it looks like an ocular blob under the eyelid

Here's some more cute kitten photo's.

I will look more at it later, Im in hurry now.  But this with Feline Aids on kittens, just because they have some infection in the eyes, sounds peculiar...

Tarryn said:

A cat I took in and later found out to be pregnant had kittens before I could get her desexed. I plan to keep them and I found out after taking them to the vets due to one of the kittens eyes not opening properly when the other ones were that the kittens have feline AIDS. They gave me some antibiotics and some cream for the kittens eye.

I've noticed now that it's eye has opened more that it has a blob of discharge in its eye, when I wipe the crust that builds up its eyelid, it doesn't come out. I'm wondering if there is any safe sanitary way to remove the blob. It looks like sleep. Does anyone have experience with this. Does away on its own? Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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You use some suitable tissue  damp with warm solution - I propose a saline solution. Not too strong, somewhat less salty than tears.

Black tea or chamomille tea solution are useful as a follow up, to calm up and soothe the inflammation.  Esp the camomille is used for sootheing small irritations.

This ointment you use is containing Chloramphenicol as main ingredient, which is supposed for eye-infections, so its surely OK.   Even if terramycine is perhaps the most common.

I wonder if you heard wrong when you retell the vet said  feline aids.  He perhas said cat herpes??

T tarryn

It may be feline herpes virus in the eye, as Stefan said.

I suggest you use a warm, damp cloth as a compress over the eye to soften anything that may be there. I would not pull on anything though.

The kitten really needs to be seen by a vet again. Perhaps the vet can refer you to a specialist for the eye.

Sorry you are correct I misremembered, it is feline herpes.

Thank you both for your suggestions, I will try both of your suggestions, I'm not looking forward to the 70$ consultation fee if they are just going to recommend the same treatment as the kittens eye hasn't been getting any worse and looks like it's progressing towards healing I guess it's better to be safe.