In January my cat was sneezing constantly and it got so bad that I was concerned enough to take him to the vet who diagnosed him as having kitty flu. He was put on antibiotics for 10 days. The vet said that they sometimes never get completely over the cat flu and that they would keep on sneezing. I had hoped that he would get better fast, but over the months it's stayed and while he is eating and playing and doing all the things cats do, he still has mucus coming from his nose, continues sneezing and can't breathe through his nose very well. It sounds like he has a blocked nose and when he licks himself it sounds like he is sucking on a lollipop.
I phoned the vet and she said all I could do was put him in the bathroom with the shower on so that the steam could open his nose.... I've tried that but it doesn't seem to help.
Is there anything else that I could do to make it a bit easier for him and make it better? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
2007-08-17 13:32:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
This has been since January?
You need to check with another vet. A cat cold is a virus, which antibiotics won't work on, but the secondary infections that go on in the nose with a bout of it CAN be treated with antibiotics (the mucus is an indication of a secondary infection).
10 days is normal for antibiotics on anything other than the nose, nasal passages block up and are constricted, so you need MORE than 10 days to get them to work for that part of the problem. I'm going through that with one of ours right now, he's getting a 20 day treatment because it was just starting to show improvement at the 10 day mark.
Get to a different vet, let them examine him and ask for an extended treatment of the antibiotics. 10 days isn't enough.
See if they give you Clindamycin Hydrochloride drops (a liquid given twice a day with an eye dropper). That's the antibiotic they have mine on and he went from really nasty yellow snot to being able to breathe better in a short time. I don't think your vet had your cat on the antibiotics for long enough. No cat should have to live with trying to pull air through blocked passages for that long.
2007-08-17 16:31:53 · answer #1 · answered by Elaine M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buying a humidifier for him might help. Place it in a room he spends a lot of time in or sleeps in. The vet is right though. If the antibiotics didn't clear it up, he's probably going to have some respiratory problems most of his life. It probably doesn't bother him nearly as much as it bothers you though. Just make sure that he is otherwise comfortable and that there is no blood in his mucus, and he should be fine.
2007-08-17 20:38:10 · answer #2 · answered by Jessica 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cats don't get the flu as far as I know. Your cat ,like most cats have herpes or chlamydia which are caused by a virus. these viruses can become worse when there is any type of stress. I would get a second opinion
2007-08-17 23:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by leftygirl_75 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go to walmart and go to the supplment isle and get some l-lysine and give him 500 mg of that per day. you can give benadryl you will have to call your vet to get proper dosage of that.
2007-08-17 20:43:37 · answer #4 · answered by macleod709 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋