I sure miss TCS, just managing the hurricane kitten season...still..
During adoptions today a lady brought in a young kitten, maybe 2.5-3 weeks old, no more than 3 weeks though.
She had her wrapped in a towel saying she found this baby on the side of the road with something wrong with her eyes, she took her to the vet and was given Ofloxacin and Erythromycin.
I can see her eyes are badly infected and she also has dried nasal discharge.
One eye is extremely bad, it was so hard to see but through a tiny space where it wasn't sealed shut from gunk I can see her eyeball is not good, enlarged, not good.
My thoughts are this, first off there is def. a chance she is going to lose that eye, but I'm wondering, I have always had great success with Idox in herpe cats/kittens, even to the point that one kitten's eye was terrible and in danger of losing it, over time I got him completely healed and normal.
So it seems to me that maybe the vet did not carry the Idox, as some do not, so she was given Ofloxacin instead. I am not very familiar with this drug, I know it's an antibiotic, but I tend to think since it is an URI going on that perhaps it's wise to give the Idox instead.
There is not much time for this eye if it is even remotely savable.
Any thoughts here?
Thanks!
During adoptions today a lady brought in a young kitten, maybe 2.5-3 weeks old, no more than 3 weeks though.
She had her wrapped in a towel saying she found this baby on the side of the road with something wrong with her eyes, she took her to the vet and was given Ofloxacin and Erythromycin.
I can see her eyes are badly infected and she also has dried nasal discharge.
One eye is extremely bad, it was so hard to see but through a tiny space where it wasn't sealed shut from gunk I can see her eyeball is not good, enlarged, not good.
My thoughts are this, first off there is def. a chance she is going to lose that eye, but I'm wondering, I have always had great success with Idox in herpe cats/kittens, even to the point that one kitten's eye was terrible and in danger of losing it, over time I got him completely healed and normal.
So it seems to me that maybe the vet did not carry the Idox, as some do not, so she was given Ofloxacin instead. I am not very familiar with this drug, I know it's an antibiotic, but I tend to think since it is an URI going on that perhaps it's wise to give the Idox instead.
There is not much time for this eye if it is even remotely savable.
Any thoughts here?
Thanks!