Feline chlamydiosis anyone??

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I need some assurance that my cats will get better. Two months ago I added Lily to my house hold of 3 other cats. When I picked her out she seemed fine. I brought her in for her feline distemper the next day.
About 3 weeks later she started sneezing. Then her eyes started getting yucky. She was due for her 2nd distemper shot and the vet said it was the start of a little URI. Put her on the Clavamox. And she improved very fast. In the mean time my older siamese developed a yucky eye. I thought probably the kitten might of scratched his eye. The vet did see a small scratch. So gave me eye ointment. Then 2 days later his other eye was getting gunky I though well maybe the infection had somehow got into the other
eye. This was friday so put ointment in both eyes. By saturday Night he was feeling very unwell. Sunday all he did was lay in the closet. And my other adult Siamese was sneezing.And started showing signs of a gunky eye.
Monday morning I was at the vets waiting for them to open. This time saw the other vet. And he said right off that it was Feline chlamydiosis. Brought into the house by the new kitten...My oldest Siamese had a fever of 106!. And the other one was 102. he gave them a antibiotic shot and fever reducer.And started them all on Clavamox. Plus eye ointment. My Persian had avoided this thus far. He had me go back and get him to give him his Distemper shot. As it was due. He said it might prevent him from getting it. And if he did it would be milder.
So far 3 of the cats have been on 2 courses of the Clavamox plus eye ointment. Then a month later the persian got it! Hes also on the same meds.
The vet did say it is a long lasting virus. Which could last for several weeks. And all we can do is treat the bacterial infections that develope which we are doing.
They just finished there 2 nd course of meds. The persian his 1st. And they all are getting sick again. I am soooo worried. Are they going to get better?
Has anyone had this before and what was the out come.My vet assured me they will be ok.
They are getting tired of the meds and eye ointment. And they run when they see me coming with it! But they have to have it till they get better.
 

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Chlamydiosis is a bacteria, not a virus. It usually takes a couple of weeks to get rid of it and sometimes cats never fully recover. All cats, even the ones that don't seem to be affected, should be treated with antibiotics (tetracyclines) for about 14 days. That's the standard treatment in Sweden regarding Feline Chlamydiosis and it's a quite efficient treatment.
 
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I think I will go into the vets in the morning and discuss this with him. My cats don't seem to be recovering that well. they are ok for a few days after the antibiotics then It starts right back up again. I'm not sure if clavamox is a tetracycline. When you stated sometimes they don't fully recover. What did you mean?
 

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Originally Posted by gardenandcats

I think I will go into the vets in the morning and discuss this with him. My cats don't seem to be recovering that well. they are ok for a few days after the antibiotics then It starts right back up again. I'm not sure if clavamox is a tetracycline. When you stated sometimes they don't fully recover. What did you mean?
Sometims cats with chlamydiosis get permanent "watery eyes" and such. They should become healthy, but they can develop permanent "problems" with their eyes and those problems usually look worse than they are.
 
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Some one suggested talking with my vet about using Zithromax as it has good success with clearing this up.I plan on doing this today.. And its a 1 dose med that last for a week.Right now the eye problem gets really bad if not on a antibiotic severe conjunctivitus pussy swollen eyes.As long as there on the antibiotic they are fine but stop it and two days it starts back up. Lily is one her 3rd dose.. The other two have finished up there 2nd round and are showing eye problems again.. So Im off to vets this morning. At least I don't have to take them in as the vet knows whats going on.
 
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