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hey everyone,
I have a 3 year old kitty named Marty. He had been getting a lot of wax build up in his left ear only. I took him to the vet, who looked at the wax under a microscope and examined him. he said he had a mild ear infection, no mites or anything. actually a yeast infection, which I could tell from the yeasty smell. the vet gave me an ear cleaner (vetoquinol) and ear drops (surolan) and said to use both once a day for a week. went back to the vet a week later and he said the infection was almost gone, but to use the stuff one more week to make sure. did that, and the wax seemed to be gone and the smell was gone completely too, but then the wax just started coming back a week later. his other ear is completely fine, and my other cat doesnt have this either. I have been using the cleaner still every day, but have stopped using the drops after maybe 3-4 weeks. so it has already been more than a month (almost 2) and the wax is still there. I have also read on forums that colloidal silver may help. I have been using that for like a week and it seems that there is slightly less wax, but still not completely gone. but now I think the colloidal silver may have brought the yeast back, because his ear smells again. I figured that's from the colloidal silver, as that is water based and water would cause yeast infection, right? arghhh I donno what else to do, I just want his little ear to be healed. he hates it when I clean it, and whenever I take him to the bathroom to clean it he knows, and he does the sweetest little scared meow every time, it breaks my heart.
I think I will take him back to the vet, but wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions or similar things happening to their kitties. my friend told me that sometimes ear infectons can take a long time to go away completely. but I am also worried about using all these medical chemicals on him for a long time. he hasn't been scratching the ear or shaking his head or anything. attaching a pic of the amount of wax that normally comes out of there in one day (sorry for the imagery). it has been slightly less since using colloidal silver, but like I said still kind of a lot of it and definitelly not gone at all. maybe my vet just needs to give me some different meds, but just wanted to see if you guys had any informative things to tell me. thanks in advance!!!
I have a 3 year old kitty named Marty. He had been getting a lot of wax build up in his left ear only. I took him to the vet, who looked at the wax under a microscope and examined him. he said he had a mild ear infection, no mites or anything. actually a yeast infection, which I could tell from the yeasty smell. the vet gave me an ear cleaner (vetoquinol) and ear drops (surolan) and said to use both once a day for a week. went back to the vet a week later and he said the infection was almost gone, but to use the stuff one more week to make sure. did that, and the wax seemed to be gone and the smell was gone completely too, but then the wax just started coming back a week later. his other ear is completely fine, and my other cat doesnt have this either. I have been using the cleaner still every day, but have stopped using the drops after maybe 3-4 weeks. so it has already been more than a month (almost 2) and the wax is still there. I have also read on forums that colloidal silver may help. I have been using that for like a week and it seems that there is slightly less wax, but still not completely gone. but now I think the colloidal silver may have brought the yeast back, because his ear smells again. I figured that's from the colloidal silver, as that is water based and water would cause yeast infection, right? arghhh I donno what else to do, I just want his little ear to be healed. he hates it when I clean it, and whenever I take him to the bathroom to clean it he knows, and he does the sweetest little scared meow every time, it breaks my heart.
I think I will take him back to the vet, but wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions or similar things happening to their kitties. my friend told me that sometimes ear infectons can take a long time to go away completely. but I am also worried about using all these medical chemicals on him for a long time. he hasn't been scratching the ear or shaking his head or anything. attaching a pic of the amount of wax that normally comes out of there in one day (sorry for the imagery). it has been slightly less since using colloidal silver, but like I said still kind of a lot of it and definitelly not gone at all. maybe my vet just needs to give me some different meds, but just wanted to see if you guys had any informative things to tell me. thanks in advance!!!
