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Hi everyone- I hope you and your kitties are all well.
I am new here and I am looking for some advice and support. I have two cats who have recently been sick, and i have no one to help, so I have really struggling, especially emotionally.
I adopted a kitten from a rescue association two months ago, and it turns out he had an URI and giardia. The association didnt tell me anything, they said she was healthy and checked.
Well I brought her home and my resident cat (3yo) got sick within a few weeks. The kitten had an eye infection which resolved fast with antibiotics and eye drops. BUT the resident cat got really sick.
First his eyes started to have discharge. I brought him to the vet and they gave him eye drops. However the morning after he woke up with massive facial swelling on one side and lots of fluid discharge from the eye. I ran to emergency with him and they put him on fluids, and gave him a steroid shot and put him on a week of clavamox antibiotics. He was doing terrible. After that week, we went to the vet and they gave him another week of oral antibiotics plus oral steroids.
It seemed he was doing better but his eyes started to have discharge again after we finished the two weeks of antibiotics. Now it has been almost 4 weeks and he hasn't recovered yet. His eyes are still doing really bad, with lots of discharge. Plus he had diarrhea. The vet gave me terramycin eye ointment. But i dont see improvements.
He is the absolute joy of my life and I am in panic to see him in this state and i cannot forgive me for having brought in the new kitty. I dont know what to do, and i feel the vets are not really solving the situation. Any help and support would be appreciated. I'm a tearful mess
I am new here and I am looking for some advice and support. I have two cats who have recently been sick, and i have no one to help, so I have really struggling, especially emotionally.
I adopted a kitten from a rescue association two months ago, and it turns out he had an URI and giardia. The association didnt tell me anything, they said she was healthy and checked.
Well I brought her home and my resident cat (3yo) got sick within a few weeks. The kitten had an eye infection which resolved fast with antibiotics and eye drops. BUT the resident cat got really sick.
First his eyes started to have discharge. I brought him to the vet and they gave him eye drops. However the morning after he woke up with massive facial swelling on one side and lots of fluid discharge from the eye. I ran to emergency with him and they put him on fluids, and gave him a steroid shot and put him on a week of clavamox antibiotics. He was doing terrible. After that week, we went to the vet and they gave him another week of oral antibiotics plus oral steroids.
It seemed he was doing better but his eyes started to have discharge again after we finished the two weeks of antibiotics. Now it has been almost 4 weeks and he hasn't recovered yet. His eyes are still doing really bad, with lots of discharge. Plus he had diarrhea. The vet gave me terramycin eye ointment. But i dont see improvements.
He is the absolute joy of my life and I am in panic to see him in this state and i cannot forgive me for having brought in the new kitty. I dont know what to do, and i feel the vets are not really solving the situation. Any help and support would be appreciated. I'm a tearful mess