We have a wonderful cat who has been plagued with feline herpes since kittenhood. He came from a barn up the road from us, and literally crawled up the road to the field across the street from our house when he was tiny.
Well, he is between 2 and 3 now, has always been scrawny, chronic sneezer-- my question has to do with what effective pallitive treatment any of you may have had success with for feline herpes.
I have started dosing him daily with 500-mg. L-lysine; for an 8-lb. cat, is that enough?
His nasal discharge is usually clear, but several times a year it seems to develop into a bacterial infection with fever and nasty green discharge. Any advice on keeping him healthy?
He came to us with horrible ear mites. The ear mites are long gone, but one of his ears still has chronic "stuff" that accumulates in it. We've treated it, (the vet and I) for almost 2 years with no success.
I have been told it's a deep-seated fungal infection due to the severity of the mites he had. ANY advice on how to treat this would be helpful- nothing the vet has given him has helped more than for a few weeks at a time. It starts out as a liquidy-brownish goop that hardens into a plug that drives him nuts if I don't clean it out every day.
In short, he is a great cat, but has never seemed strong. He is happy though, purrs almost all the time, and is horribly spoiled by all of us, especially my 19-year old son, who is the one who named this lovely red tom SMEAGOL!
Well, he is between 2 and 3 now, has always been scrawny, chronic sneezer-- my question has to do with what effective pallitive treatment any of you may have had success with for feline herpes.
I have started dosing him daily with 500-mg. L-lysine; for an 8-lb. cat, is that enough?
His nasal discharge is usually clear, but several times a year it seems to develop into a bacterial infection with fever and nasty green discharge. Any advice on keeping him healthy?
He came to us with horrible ear mites. The ear mites are long gone, but one of his ears still has chronic "stuff" that accumulates in it. We've treated it, (the vet and I) for almost 2 years with no success.
I have been told it's a deep-seated fungal infection due to the severity of the mites he had. ANY advice on how to treat this would be helpful- nothing the vet has given him has helped more than for a few weeks at a time. It starts out as a liquidy-brownish goop that hardens into a plug that drives him nuts if I don't clean it out every day.
In short, he is a great cat, but has never seemed strong. He is happy though, purrs almost all the time, and is horribly spoiled by all of us, especially my 19-year old son, who is the one who named this lovely red tom SMEAGOL!
