My girlfriend rescued a kitten from a cat hoarder who claimed to be a "rescue service" and we still have the kitten (who is about 6 weeks old at this point according to the vet).
We've taken her to the vet and she had roundworms, tapeworms, coccidia,ear mites, fleas, and had developed an URI among other things.
The vet we've taken her to has been very accomadating and Maya's worms are taken care of. She still has cocccidia but the vet wants to concentrate on treating the URI first. She's on antibiotics for her URI (switched from amoxycillin, to on that has an acid in it's potassium salt form) and it seems to be slowly (really slowly) getting better but the real issue is her left eye. It is swollen shut and possibly to the point to where she may lose her eye. The vet has given us an antibiotic gel (neomycin) for her eyes but says that she'll probably lose it. I was wondering if there was any chance we could save her eye and I've heard of many people having similar cases and being able to rescue the eye.
Maya is currently on:
.25CC Amoxycillin/ possasium salt of some acid
.5CC Viralyis twice daily
Neomycin applied twice daily to eyes
I was wondering if anyone had any advice on what I can do to help her eye (possibly other antibiotic eye ointment, etc) and help prevent the other one from getting infected as well. And to clarify, the left one is swollen shut as this point. Not really trying to go against what the vet is prescribing, she's just set on the kitten losing her eye and is not really offering me other options for antibiotics. We really want to try and give the kitten the best chance for life possible. Thanks for any advice or info you could give.
Jordan
We've taken her to the vet and she had roundworms, tapeworms, coccidia,ear mites, fleas, and had developed an URI among other things.
The vet we've taken her to has been very accomadating and Maya's worms are taken care of. She still has cocccidia but the vet wants to concentrate on treating the URI first. She's on antibiotics for her URI (switched from amoxycillin, to on that has an acid in it's potassium salt form) and it seems to be slowly (really slowly) getting better but the real issue is her left eye. It is swollen shut and possibly to the point to where she may lose her eye. The vet has given us an antibiotic gel (neomycin) for her eyes but says that she'll probably lose it. I was wondering if there was any chance we could save her eye and I've heard of many people having similar cases and being able to rescue the eye.
Maya is currently on:
.25CC Amoxycillin/ possasium salt of some acid
.5CC Viralyis twice daily
Neomycin applied twice daily to eyes
I was wondering if anyone had any advice on what I can do to help her eye (possibly other antibiotic eye ointment, etc) and help prevent the other one from getting infected as well. And to clarify, the left one is swollen shut as this point. Not really trying to go against what the vet is prescribing, she's just set on the kitten losing her eye and is not really offering me other options for antibiotics. We really want to try and give the kitten the best chance for life possible. Thanks for any advice or info you could give.
Jordan