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I foster moms and kittens and have been doing this for years. My current litter came to me at 3 weeks old with very bad URIs- probably herpes. They are all much better and now 7 weeks old. One of the kitten's eye was hit particularly hard. She had a terrible conjunctivitis that was so severe, she couldn't open her eye for 10 days. During those ten days I had given her eye drops and ointments (terramycin, gentamycin, gent with steroid) etc. She saw a vet who said that I couldn't do anything else. Meanwhile, the kitten became very unhappy. She used to be sweet and loving, now she was afraid to go near me, since 3-4 times a day I was cleaning and putting stuff in her eye. She is, unfortunately, the most high strung kitten in the litter and really hated being medicated. I stopped medicating her since I feared her eye was relatively hopeless, but her personality was still being formed. Finally her eye opened again as she got better. The conjunctivitis is much better. However, she has a lot of scarring on the eye and continues to have some discharge and squiniting. I took her back to a vet today and he said it looks like she has corneal ulcers/herpes keratitis, some conjunctivitis, and presumably little or no vision in that eye. He recommended I start medicating her with the same antibiotic drops again (that didn't help before). I know herpes keratitis can be a painful condition. What is worse, medicating her and making this high strung, fragile 7 week old kitten miserable and hate humans or doing nothing to a serious and painful eye infection? She is much happier and more loving since I have been medicating her sporadically over the last 10 days.