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10 January, 2010 at 9:19 pm #34923
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ParticipantI just recently adopted a kitten, Sasha, from a shelter in my town. I filled out adoption papers and was able to pick her up the next day. Well, when I went in to pick her up, they said she was sneezing some, but they gave he a pill and said she could come home with me. Things went downhill from there. She was sneezing and you could hear the congestion in her lungs not two days later. She was sleeping 23 hours of the day and you could just tell my little one wasn’t feeling good. I took her to the vet and he gave her some antibiotics for an URI, Clavamox and Temaril. Let me tell you, she did NOT want to take those meds!
After about four days on the meds, she still wasn’t showing any improvement, so we took another trip to the vet. Turns out, she was dehydrated, but could see nothing else wrong. He have me some drops for her eyes and nose and gave Sasha some fluids to hydrate her again. After that, things started looking up! She got her appetite back and was having regular BMs. When the meds ended, she was still a little sneezy (with green mucus), so the vet gave me another dose of the Clavamox and Temaril.
To sum this up, she has her personality back, eats regularly, has regular BMs, is no longer congested, but she is still sneezing! I don’t know what to think of this. Could it be kitty allergies? I live in an apartment with two other dogs, but they do not come into my room nor does she leave my room. How do I know if her sneezes are a cold or if they are allergies? Any advice would be great =)
Do you have any background with either of these antibiotics?
10 January, 2010 at 9:26 pm #527537Kitten Whisperer in Oregon (8/27)
ParticipantHi, Lindsay. Welcome to the Daily Kitten! I love your avatar–Sasha I presume? 🙂
I have not had to use antibiotics with my three kits. It sounds like Sasha is doing great except for the sneezing. If she no longer has a runny nose and everything else is good, I imagine you could just do some “watchful waiting” to make sure she is on the mend. Your vet would probably answer your questions over the phone since you’ve already been in recently.
Looking forward to hearing more about Sasha and gettin to know you. You might want to create a webpage on Catster.com and post some photos of Sasha there. It is free and easy to do. Click on my avatar to see pics of my three kits, Digit, Furl and Boots. 🙂
10 January, 2010 at 9:28 pm #527538Moonshadow_NZ
ModeratorYour story sounds so familiar. We adopted a kitty from the SPCA 8 years ago and a few days later she started sneezing and wheezing. Off to the vet and antibiotica,eye ointment etc were prescribed and she was diagnosed with cat flu. We had a very long and nervous 2 weeks, we carried her around in our arms for almost the entire time. She recovered but has one eye that weeps whenever she becomes stressed for any reason and she still sneezed lots but that has eased over the years.
I can’t help you about the sneezing possibly allergies but there is the possibility the sneezes are just hanging on from Sasha’s URI.
Someone on here has mentioned L-lysine in conjunction with URI but I can’t remember who or what they said. I hope they read this and tell us again.
Oh, Welcome to TDK Lindsay.
10 January, 2010 at 9:31 pm #527539ParticipantYou might want to click on the pink tag “URI” at the top of this page. There are lots of discussions about URIs and treatment of them on other threads.
10 January, 2010 at 9:37 pm #527540ParticipantYes, that is my Sasha.
She is still currently on her second dose of meds, but I am SUCH a worrywart. I grew up with cats my whole life, but I have recently moved out and gone to college and this is the first time I have raised a cat by myself! My mom constantly gets calls from me with questions about Sasha’s behavior x).
I will definitely check out that Catster website, Kitten Whisperer.
I’m glad your kitty recovered well, Moonshadow, and glad her sneezing is better.
Thank you for the welcome! 🙂
10 January, 2010 at 9:49 pm #527541Skyron
ParticipantLindsay, it might help you to understand more about uri’s. it caused by a strain of herpes, and it stays in the kitties system forever. After the initial illness, which is always the worst, it’s normal for them to have a few flare-ups throughout the year. L-lysine helps their bodies to fight the symptoms of the virus, but unfortunately its never going to go away. It also helps to try and lower the viral load in the kitty’s environment – that means everything that kitty comes into contact with has to be cleaned regularly. I keep a spray bottle with a strong bleach solution, and I spray down all the food bowls and litter boxes with it, and then rinse them off again every time I clean their stuff. I wash their bedding every week. You can get lysine at any pharmacy in capsule form, and just sprinkle it in her food. Good luck!
10 January, 2010 at 10:23 pm #527542MadcatwomanintheUK
ParticipantThat’s interesting Skyron, didn’t know that.
Welcome to TDK Lindsay! I haven’t anything useful to add, just wanted to say hi and I absolutely LOVE the picture of Sasha!! ou should consider submitting it to Kittenmaster, I’d say she more than qualifies on cuteness alone to be a front page star!
10 January, 2010 at 10:53 pm #527543ModeratorSkyron, is that animal or human grade lysine and what dosage is recommended? I would love to know. I have only found lysine in health food stores here in NZ.
11 January, 2010 at 12:13 am #527544ParticipantHuman grade, I think. I always give my cats 1/2 a capsule, twice a day. My vet said anything that the cats body doesnt use just gets excreted out with all the other bodily waste, so there is no harm in giving it to them.
11 January, 2010 at 1:08 am #527545ModeratorThanks Skyron, I’m taking Shadz to the vet today for her annual vaccinations and I’ll ask him about lysine. You never know, maybe I’ll educate him.
11 January, 2010 at 1:36 am #527546AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
ParticipantMS, I crush a 500mg tablet of Lysine (human grade) and put it into the wet food from my crew. All the lysine does is help build up the immune system, and like Skyron said their body gets rid of what they don’t use.
11 January, 2010 at 1:40 am #527547ModeratorWoohoo, I’ll give it a try then. Thanks for the info.
11 January, 2010 at 3:34 am #527548ModeratorBack from the vets and had a chat about L-lysine, he’s lukewarm on it and says there’s not any one thing that will help boost an immune system, just keep her on a good diet. I still think I might give it a try and see how she does.
11 January, 2010 at 7:21 am #527549ParticipantThanks for the information about URIs. I knew they were a strain of Herpes, but I wasn’t aware that it stayed with the kittens forever. And thank you for the L-lysine info =).
I was trying to look for useful ways to give her the meds, so I tried to mix it up in some wet catfood. Unfortunately, it upset her little tummy (at least, i’m hoping it was the wet food) and she now has diarrhea. If this is the case, how long should this last? Everything with her is normal (as normal as it can) except her bowel movements. She has gone about five times.
11 January, 2010 at 11:27 am #527550rossy
ParticipantHello Linday, Im sorry I dont know much about this type of illness and have no advice on the subject,but I wanted to say hi and say that is one of the cutest baby kittens I’ve ever seen. I hope she is well soon and you have many happy years with your precious furbaby Sasha. Blessings:)
11 January, 2010 at 4:23 pm #5275512bpurring
ParticipantWelcome to TDK Linday! What an adorable kitten Sasha is!!! I love her markings! How is she feeling today?
11 January, 2010 at 4:32 pm #527552katthays
ParticipantWelcome to TDK, Lindsay! Your Sasha is SO adorable, such unusual and pretty markings! I have no words of wisdom, but look forward to more posts and pics! Wishing you the best with your furrball! 🙂 My avatar is Gizmo and I am in WI.
11 January, 2010 at 4:44 pm #527553ParticipantThank you for the kind welcomes!
It was a little weird, Sasha slept through the whole night with me when she normally plays around and wakes me up several times by walking on my face. She seems a little.. tired. I was hoping she didn’t have any more diarrhea, but not five minutes ago she used the potty and there it was. I didn’t know kittens could have so much poop in them!
If this was, in fact, the food that upset her stomach, how long would the diarrhea have lasted? It lasted all yesterday and , looks like, now today.
11 January, 2010 at 4:49 pm #527554ParticipantI’m not sure about how long it might last. I do know it’s very important to make sure she does not dehydrate. Make sure she drinks enough water even if you have to give it to her with an eyedropper. You could also try and give her Pedilyte. You can find it at most any grocery store in the baby food isle.
11 January, 2010 at 4:53 pm #527555ParticipantThank you, 2B, and yes she is eating and drinking water regularly. I just checked and she is not dehydrated. She is running around the room playing now, hopefully making up for the energy not burned last night! I’m just concerned, because if it’s not from the food, there would be another problem and that means back to the vet.
Does anyone know if the antibiotics are known to give diarrhea? Temaril and Clavamox. It didn’t give her problems last time.. so I don’t know if that would be the problem.
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