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Hello,
I adopted a kitten from my local shelter almost 2 weeks ago. During his stay at the shelter they treated him for a little eye discharge but that was all cleared up by the time I picked him up. Since this past Monday I noticed he was having green discharge and I took him to the vet two days ago. The vet said he did not have a respiratory infection so he just prescribed eye drops. I have been putting the eye drops in 4x a day for the last 2 days but the green discharge is getting worse. There is so much more of it and it is crusty around his whole eye. He won't let me wipe it off and I can barely get the drops in now (he bites and scratches me now when I try to put it in).
He is biting me a lot now (he never did that until recently) and he purrs sometimes when I am not touching him (just near him). He seems to have all of his kitten energy and is still eating normally. I am not sure what to do since there are no emergency vets around and won't be open til Monday. Could this eye infection be the cat herpes or anything else more serious than a bacterial infection? I am just concerned because it is getting progressively worse.
Thanks!
I adopted a kitten from my local shelter almost 2 weeks ago. During his stay at the shelter they treated him for a little eye discharge but that was all cleared up by the time I picked him up. Since this past Monday I noticed he was having green discharge and I took him to the vet two days ago. The vet said he did not have a respiratory infection so he just prescribed eye drops. I have been putting the eye drops in 4x a day for the last 2 days but the green discharge is getting worse. There is so much more of it and it is crusty around his whole eye. He won't let me wipe it off and I can barely get the drops in now (he bites and scratches me now when I try to put it in).
He is biting me a lot now (he never did that until recently) and he purrs sometimes when I am not touching him (just near him). He seems to have all of his kitten energy and is still eating normally. I am not sure what to do since there are no emergency vets around and won't be open til Monday. Could this eye infection be the cat herpes or anything else more serious than a bacterial infection? I am just concerned because it is getting progressively worse.
Thanks!