How di i treat my cat's eye infection without going to a vet?
You're looking for people to agree with you, I see, sorry but even the smallest amount of commn sense says you should at least have called your vet. This cat needs to be diagnosed so the vet can find the cause, which you cannot do so stop being s cheapskate and take the poor thing to the vet, all you are doing is prolonging the suffering, and you may just cause problems with your home remedies since you should not use anything medicinal without the VET'S OK. You can get Terramycin made by Pfizer Animal Health, but again, you have no idea as to cause OR dosage - again, use common sense and call the vet. If it doesn't go away, .....do I even need to say what everyone else has said over and over?
Honey relieving symptoms of herpes in cat's?
when I got baby she was so sick. bloody eyes, runny nose, etc. repertory infection. got antibiotics, made her better, but she's a little over a yr. and a half and been on anti. over and over. vet says either feline herpes or nasal pass. were damaged. either she's all dried up or all snotty, sneezing. I haven't been real diligent with the lysine he says 500mg, after stuffing so many pills in her you feel so guilty. he said to give her allergy pills, chlorpheniramine maleate tabs 2m morn night 2mgs. I've also tried off brand zyrtec, they don't work! then it occurred to me that I take honey, why not? just started 2 days ago. 1/2 teaspoon got all of it down night before last only half last night. I saw on one of the answers people said something about corn, gluten, grains as fillers, being a contributing factor? she eats well, drinks, etc. fine. her lungs are fine, just got an x-ray last mo. help!! any opinions or help would be appreciated. if you have any questions please e-mail me. Thank you so much. Sandra
My cat is coughing up mucus. How can I treat this?
I think this depends largely on the frequency and amount of mucous.In an ideal situation, I’d take your companion to the vet immediately, but I don’t know your situation and I do know that at times it is difficult to afford veterinary care.If this is not the case with you, take the cat to a vet. I’d be concerned that there is an infection in play causing overproduction of mucous.Note: I am not a vet. I am only speaking of my own experiences as a cat parent.Adopted cats sometimes come with (both avoidable and unavoidable) conditions such as feline viral rhinopneumonitis (FVR), commonly referred to as Feline Herpes (don’t freak out, it doesn’t work like that).FVR and some similar conditions can cause your companion to be prone to upper respiratory infections. These infections often occur during times of stress, such as a family move from one residence to another, the addition of a new furry companion to the household, or other significant environmental changes.Obviously, FVR is neither a diagnosis I’m pretending to make, nor the only possible explanation by far, especially if you aren’t also observing sneezing, weepy/goopy eyes, and other symptoms of upper respiratory infection.Long story short (too late), I would take the cat to the vet for blood work, especially if you have multiple cats, as some commonly diagnosed issues like FVR can be transmitted from feline to feline.
Can a raw diet help a cat with the symptoms of cat herpes?
Anything that will help make their immune systems better does help but does not cure. Like another poster said, try and buy capsules and sprinkle it on their food. I buy mine from the vet. It has a sorta tuna flavor to it and my cat has no problem taking it. She loves the taste. Also, stress plays a big role in this so try to have them be stress free as much as possible.... Did your vet diagnose all 3 with it? If not, it is possible that only one cat has it and the others catch the upper respiratory infections. That is what happened with my cats. Only one has the Herpes virus but the others would get the URI from her but they do not have Herpes.... Edit:Like I said, does not mean they all have it if they have not been tested. I had 3 cats and when the Herpes cat would get it, the other 2 would get it and as soon as one finished the outbreak, she would get it again. It's like playing ping pong. She is 6 years old now and does not get them any more. Her eyes will run once in a while but goes away with the lysine. I feed her high quality food and when she needs a vet, I make a house call so she gets less stress.... This is the kind of lysine I get but get it from my vet. Don't know if it is safe to order and from where but it does wonders and the cats love it... http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Viralys-Lysine-Po...
How are cold sores treated in cats?
I would go to the vet for a mouth sore that doesn't go away within a week to 10 days. It could also be a big bite/sting as cats often try to eat bugs.One of my cats has feline herpes (cold sores come from herpes virus). Herpes has caused my cat to have ear and particularly eye infections in the past. Viral infections like herpes do not respond to antibiotics, which are meant for solely bacterial infections. Thus for her eye infections my cat requires a special antiviral eye drop that is mailed to me from a compounding pharmacy out of state.Your vet could perhaps help you get a topical antiviral medication for a long lasting cold sore (do not attempt to use human cold sore products as many human products are toxic to cats even in small doses). You could ensure the sore stays soft and prevent cracking by putting olive oil or beeswax on it.
How can you treat a cat's runny eye?
Your first move should be to go to a vet. This is a professional who has trained for exactly this- finding out what the problem is when animals are sick, and treating it.However… I realize it's not always practical, or even possible, to get to a vet. A family in the area of my dorm had taken in a kitten, then moved away not long after… As a result, the kitten was small enough, and reliant enough on people, that it could not care for itself. My roommates and I essentially had to take it in and care for it.At a certain point, we realized one of her eyes was beginning to run, and gum up a bit, opening less and less… We looked into how to deal with this, and though our solution may not have been perfect, it seemed to work. Every day (while the problem lasted), we would soak some eyedrops into a soft cloth. Someone (or two people, if necessary) would hold the cat in place while someone else gently dabbed the eye with drops. (The cat is likely to fight this- you may well be scratched.) We kept this up, and the problem cleared away within a week or two.It’s possible (likely) a vet would have had a better solution- one that worked faster, or was less uncomfortable for the cat. It’s possible that eyedrops made for humans are not ideal for cat eyes, but we were simply doing the best we could in the circumstances.My point is: this is what I have seen to work. I was able to help my cat, but there are others who may have done a better job of doing so. If the problem had been different, we might only have made it worse.In our case, it did work. Her eye cleared up, she seemed able to see clearly and move normally. She was healthy, and lived for a good while afterward… Until she was hit by a car. To this day, I don't know if she saw it coming.Take good care of your pets. You never know how long they’ll last.
How easy is it for a cat to get feline herpes, how does it affect a cat's life and if my cat does have it, is there anything I can do to minimize the symptoms and help my cat to live a normal life?
The initial infection can be daunting, especially if the cat is a young kitten and/or otherwise doesn’t have a strong immune system. Absolutely take them to the vet if you think that’s what’s going on. It’s actually a lot more common than you might think, though, because it’s highly contagious and spreads easily in shelter and rescue environments. My middle cat came to us from the shelter with it (though we didn’t realize until a week later when she became severely congested).It’s easily passed from cat to cat, they don’t even need to contact each other directly; it can be passed on infected surfaces of things like plastic food bowls and litter boxes. However, it can be vaccinated against. My youngest cat was vaccinated, and has never shown any signs of infection, even though she lives in a house with two cats who have the virus.It is NOT transmissible to humans.Stress can exacerbate the symptoms, which are mostly congestion, eye discharge, and sneezing.A few sniffles or some eye discharge isn’t a big deal, but if they get congested have a vet check them out, and if the discharge is red (bloody) or bright green or yellow that can also be a symptom of serious secondary infection that should be checked out by a vet.Lysine is an amino acid that’s commonly given as a supplement to cats with feline herpes. The lysine binds to the same receptors in the cat’s cells that the virus uses, so it helps to mitigate the infection. It isn’t always necessary, though. I took my cats off it about a year ago when they both started really fussing about having it in their food, and we haven’t had any problems.In the words of Douglas Adams: DON’T PANIC. Feline herpes is absolutely a manageable disease and cats who have it can absolutely live a normal life.
How much does it cost to treat conjunctivitis in cats?
Two things cause the runny eyes and 3rd eyelid to go up, the calci virus and the herpes virus. If it's the herpes one just get a bottle of Lysine from the vitamin section of the grocery store, a generic bottle is $5 for 60 pills. Crush one a day and mix it in the cat's food--a cat dose is 250 to 500mg. It bonds to the herpes virus and negates it, you'll see huge improvement by day 3 and it should be under control by day 7. If it's the calci virus, that's far more persistent. I had a tube of clear gel for ours, from the vet, which went on twice a day right onto his eyeball (it was very soothing, he stood absolutely still for this) and it ran me $18 plus the price of the exam. Took a good 2 weeks to kick the problem out, but it did work.
Can a cat with feline herpes live a normal life if he's well taken care of and not exposed to other cats, or does exposure to other cats make no difference to a cat who already has FH?
Absolutely!Feline herpes is a respiratory virus and is really quite common. A lot of cats are effected by it to one degree or another. In my three-cat household, my second cat brought it in with her from the shelter that we adopted her from. At one point the poor little thing sounded like she has asthma, she was wheezing so badly! Stress can kick it up, but like most illnesses sometimes it just does its own thing for no apparent reason and they’ll have a flare-up.PetMD has some good information posted here: Cat Herpes: FVR and FHV-1 Symptoms and TreatmentsHonestly, other than that first onslaught when she was a tiny kitten, which the vet had her on meds for, it really hasn’t effected my Lily’s life all that much. Every so often she would get a little congested, or have some eye discharge, and then I’d make sure she got some extra lysine for a couple of days, but that was really about it. My youngest cat was vaccinated before we let her come into contact with the other cats (or their litter boxes or food bowls), and has never shown any signs of infection at all; the older cat who was in the house when we brought Lily home must not have gotten that one because he did catch it, but he never had any symptoms other than some eye discharge.For many years I was giving both Crook and Lily lysine supplements, which helps with the symptoms of the virus - it binds to the same receptors the virus does, leaving the virus with less ability to multiply - but I actually stopped doing that about a year ago as a test (Lily and Crook are 9 and 10 years old now, respectively). No symptoms have reappeared, so I don’t plan on re-introducing the lysine again unless there’s a flare-up.Except for the fact that 3 cats is more than enough, I wouldn’t hesitate to adopt another cat so long as I got them vaccinated first.