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New hear but I've looked around before, enough to know that there are some super knowledgable people here
I have a cat named Toby who is about 14yrs old. about 10 days ago I noticed he was having a problem with his ear. He had it turned off to the side and was scratching at it. I looked but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, however when I gently rubbed the base on the ear I hear fluid moving. So off to the vet we went.
She cleaned out his ear (left ear only is the issue - right ear is fine) and found lots of what I'd call 'snot' a green fluid and after further digging, some brown/black gunk. She looked at it under scope and found very little yeast or bacteria. I also asked her to sedate him to do a thorough check of his year to ensure there was no foreign object. That revealed nothing in the ear.
We went home with drops to do every day (Posatex - says for dogs but guess okay for cats too) It is an Antibacterial, Anti-inflammatory and Antifungal. We did our 10 days and went back today for a recheck. It did take about 304 days for him to stop showing me his ear was bothering him, but it that got better after that. I also made an observation that his eyes were dilated different, something I had not noticed before. One (the left) was always smaller than the right) I called to relay this info but it didn't seem like a big deal. Today at the 10 day appt his dilation in the eyes was normal and equal in both.
Anyways, after a cleaning today by vet - his ear was full of that green snot again, along with some brown/black gunk just like before, but seemed like even more snot then before. Again she looked at it under the microscope and saw zero yeast and no bacteria at all just green 'snot'
Came back home with instructions to clean ear every 3 days with a clean that may dry it out and then use some QTips (carefully, I know how)
She has no idea what is causing this in one ear.
Any one ever have something similar???
Thanks!
Trish and Toby
New hear but I've looked around before, enough to know that there are some super knowledgable people here
I have a cat named Toby who is about 14yrs old. about 10 days ago I noticed he was having a problem with his ear. He had it turned off to the side and was scratching at it. I looked but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, however when I gently rubbed the base on the ear I hear fluid moving. So off to the vet we went.
She cleaned out his ear (left ear only is the issue - right ear is fine) and found lots of what I'd call 'snot' a green fluid and after further digging, some brown/black gunk. She looked at it under scope and found very little yeast or bacteria. I also asked her to sedate him to do a thorough check of his year to ensure there was no foreign object. That revealed nothing in the ear.
We went home with drops to do every day (Posatex - says for dogs but guess okay for cats too) It is an Antibacterial, Anti-inflammatory and Antifungal. We did our 10 days and went back today for a recheck. It did take about 304 days for him to stop showing me his ear was bothering him, but it that got better after that. I also made an observation that his eyes were dilated different, something I had not noticed before. One (the left) was always smaller than the right) I called to relay this info but it didn't seem like a big deal. Today at the 10 day appt his dilation in the eyes was normal and equal in both.
Anyways, after a cleaning today by vet - his ear was full of that green snot again, along with some brown/black gunk just like before, but seemed like even more snot then before. Again she looked at it under the microscope and saw zero yeast and no bacteria at all just green 'snot'
Came back home with instructions to clean ear every 3 days with a clean that may dry it out and then use some QTips (carefully, I know how)
She has no idea what is causing this in one ear.
Any one ever have something similar???
Thanks!
Trish and Toby