PLEASE help life threatening to a kitten?

Question

please i need help. I have a kitten that i rescued from a creek. i don't know her age yet we have had her for a month. i gave her a flea bath and about three weeks later another. she was badly infested. when that didnt help i went to pet store vet and they gave me med. not telling me that it would poison her cause you can only give a small kitten flea treatment once every 3 months. now she is fighting for her life and we can't go to vet right now they said to give her pediacare and keep her warm. does anyone know of anything else that can be done, i feel we are losing her within each minute that passes she is so week and can hardly move. i don't want her to die. please help, any info would mean the world to me right now.

Answer 1

Hi there...here's a list of organizations which provides assistance to veterinary bills: http://felinediabetes.com/vetbills (Care Credit is the most helpful)

I hope you would please consider borrowing some friend and family funds to help pay for your kitty care in the meantime.

Answer 2

kittens and puppies CAN NOT have flea baths until they are at least 12 weeks old (3 months) so this could be the first problem. did you tell the vet that you had already given the kitten a flea bath? you can give a kitten that is at least 8 weeks old flea treatment (frontline, revolution, advantix) every month as long as you are using the correct amount for the weight of the cat. you vet is pretty much right, just keep her warm (try throwing a towel in the dryer for a few mins but make sure it isnt too hot) and try to get her to drink lots of clear fluids. if things aren't better by the morning, call the vet and they may want her to go in and start on an iv.

Answer 3

You really must get her to a vet anyway you can. If she is that weak, she needs care you can't provide at home. Get a lift, get a taxi, get a bus, walk? How far are you from a vet?

You can certainly give young kittens flea treatment monthly, so long as it's the RIGHT treatment, i.e NOT baths, or ANY store bought stuff. Who told you you can only treat every 3 months anyway? Store-bought flea treatments are frequently toxic to cats, and always useless. Please stick to veterinary flea treatments only in future - flea baths should not even be used on adult cats, they're a waste of time.

Anyway, not the issue - concentrate on getting the kitten to a vet for intensive care. All you can do at home is keep her warm and hydrated, but if she's been poisoned by flea treatment that won't be enough.

Chalice

Answer 4

Keep her warm and feed her what the vet said for tonight - and get her to the vet as soon as he opens tomorrow! This is not something that you can take care of at home.

Once she recovers, don't fool around with flea baths (or flea collars, flea powders, etc) because most of the over the counter stuff doesn't work for more than a couple weeks anyway. Take her to the vet and get her treated properly - they have shots they can use even on kittens which will kill all the fleas within 24 hours. Once the fleas are taken care of, you can use Advantage or Frontline to keep them gone.

Answer 5

Get an eye dropper and try giving her a few drops of pediacare if she'll take it. Try some water too. Keep her in a warm, quiet place with no stress. Approach her gently. Stress could be too much for her to handle right now. Search your area for an emergency vet clinic - one open 24/7. God Bless.

Answer 6

You can also try the Pediasure; drops only

urgent; remove all flea products from the area; throw out ALL pills; collars; liquids etc.

Then put down a clean blanket for her.

Let her rest for about 15 minutes; DO NOT HANDLE THE KITTEN which stresses her

GIVE HER EVAPORATED CANNED MILK BY MOUTH WITH AN EYEDROPPER EVERY 15 MINUTES;

If you do what I say; she could recover;

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ps you can use any type of Milk at all; fresh; canned; cow; goat; GIVE ONE DROP MILK; if she swallows the milk; try another drop; you can use soymilk or a plain yogurt.

until she begins to revive; LET HER REST

The less you handle the Kitten the better @

Answer 7

1st off, you need to make sure that the kitten stays very warm. I would suggest continually keeping her wrapped in clean towels taken regularly from the drier. You also need to make sure that she's consuming food regularly as well, (liquid kitten formula is good). At that age her immune system isn't fully functional and will need a lot of help. Ideally she should be at a vet's in a oxygen tank w/IV fluids & you should do everything you can to get her to one. I would suggest calling your local vet to get suggestions directly from them. I will pray for your kitten as I've expierienced a similar issue lately.

Answer 8

PLEASE take her to the vet! I understand that finances might be tough, but explain the situation to them and they should let you make payments, or you could turn the kitten over to them. She will likely die without treatment. Fleas can suck the blood out of a kitten to the point that they die from lack of blood supply. This is a dire situation.

Answer 9

You need veterinary help immediately. Pediacare alone will do nothing for this type of toxicity, she needs special medications that will help stop the tremors/seizures. You need to be monitoring her body temperature (rectally), normal is between 100.0-102.5. With each tremor, her body temp will increase, putting her brain and other organs at risk.

I dont mean to sound so negative, but I want you to understand that there is just no way this type of toxicity can be managed in the home enviroment. Above, Seattle gave you links to several good organizations that can help. Please contact them immediately.

Answer 10

Get this little kitten to an emergency vet clinic NOW! Worry about the bill later, or make some kind of payment arrangements with them AFTER your kitten has been treated. Best of luck to you with this little one.