felovax reaction?

[salukigirl]

our cat, consuela, was treated for chlamydia. we went through the full 10 days of eye ointment and just got done giving her this fluid the vet gave us. first she just had runny eyes.

then her eyes started to get runny again so i put the eye ointment on her again for a couple days. now its a full blown URI. yellow/green mucous in her nose. you can hear her breathing all the time unless i clean out her nose with a tissue. her eyes are still constantly runny.

what i thought was, you know how humans wil actually get the flu from a flu shot? could she have gotten a URI from her vaccines for URI? she sounds like our old cat whom we were told had chronic sinusitis. we took her back to the vet for a re-check and they said just to finish the bottle they gave us and she should be fine. felv/fiv test came back negative. the other cats have all had their URI vaccinations so none of them are getting it. they always gave us clavamox before for our old cat but i didnt know if it would do anything if it was a reaction to vaccinations. she had 3 felovax and 1 rabies of course.

and i know it is stress related but i think giving her the medicine is what is making her stressed. i have a paradox on my hands.

p.s. eating/drinking/playin habits have not changed. she has been gaining weight normally and is 7 lbs. she still plays with the other cats and runs around doing her pigeon noise chasing invisible things. she is drinking and urinating the same also.

[tiffers]

It depends on the vaccine the cat was given. Some inject killed viruses, other's live.

Clavamox is an antibiotic. Generally, not given if there'a vaccine reaction. I don't think you're having a vaccine reaction, you have a simple URI.

As with the flu shot, like you mentioned, you can't vaccinate for every flu out there. As with kitty's RCPC, you can't vaccinate for all branches of each of the four listed. Vaccines are never and will never be 100%.

[salukigirl]

i took her in and tested her for fiv and felv just to be safe since they can take a few months to recognize it. still negative. the vet said it could be that she has a virus with bacteria and the bacteria is the reason she cant fight it off by herself. she gave me clavamox and told me if that doesnt work to get this stuff called lysine. i had never heard of it but i guess ill wait and see. we found 2 spots on the wall that she must have sneezed on because there is yellow splatter. gross. but i love her.

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i took her in and tested her for fiv and felv just to be safe since they can take a few months to recognize it. still negative. the vet said it could be that she has a virus with bacteria and the bacteria is the reason she cant fight it off by herself. she gave me clavamox and told me if that doesnt work to get this stuff called lysine. i had never heard of it but i guess ill wait and see. we found 2 spots on the wall that she must have sneezed on because there is yellow splatter. gross. but i love her.

L-lysine is a supplement used to help control herpes outbreaks. Your vet should do a culture to determine if the eye discharge is from herpes, first.

You have had a time with these kttens. I admire you for all you have taken on wiht them.

If the kitten won't take the liquid clavamox, you can ask for pills instead. It may be the squirting she objects to. I have a cat that eats the clavomox (pill or liquid) right in her food, she thinks it's a treat.

I also have a cat who takes l-lysine for herpes eyes. It is incredibly effective. If you get that diagnosis and want more information, I will be happy to help you. I buy the L-lysine powder and a suspension agent on line and mix the stuff myself, one squirt a day, my cat has been on it over five years. The improvement when I started it was very dramatic.

There is no cure for herpes but the L-lysine controls the severity and frequency of the outbreaks.

[salukigirl]

the first vet said it was chlamydia. so now i gues this one thinks its herpes. she gave me the pills. consuela is pretty good about medicine. i just put her on her back on top of my legs, open her mouth, put the pill in her throat and she just scampers off like nothing. she was really good with the eye ointment too. i was mostly scared she was going to have fiv and thats why it wasnt going away but the test came back negative for a second time so....who knows. does innova make cat food? cause lucy seems to be feeling better and healthier on it and i think the cats would like it too.

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the first vet said it was chlamydia. so now i gues this one thinks its herpes. she gave me the pills. consuela is pretty good about medicine. i just put her on her back on top of my legs, open her mouth, put the pill in her throat and she just scampers off like nothing. she was really good with the eye ointment too. i was mostly scared she was going to have fiv and thats why it wasnt going away but the test came back negative for a second time so....who knows. does innova make cat food? cause lucy seems to be feeling better and healthier on it and i think the cats would like it too.

I'm a little confused.

The vet gave you what pills? You mean an antibiotic pill inttead of liquid? Was that after you said you were having trouble giving her the liquid?

Or are you talking about l-lysine pills?

My cat's eyes were first diagnosed as chlamydia also. But once the chlamydia was cleared up through antibiotic treatment, he still was having terrible eye discharges. We tried so many things in his eyes (I no longer use that vet) he can not tolerate any eyes medicines at all anymore.

I finally had taken him to Cornell University companion animal hospital for his seizure disorder, and he saw an opthamologist there too, and that's when he got the herpes eye dianosis.

Counsuela is lucky to have you in her corner.

[salukigirl]

they never gave me clavamox liquid. i had to use it before on our cat mo when he had a perpetual URI from being FIV + and it goes bad too quickly, they dont always eat it when its on their food etc.... so they gave me the clavamox pills originally.

yeah im thinking of changing vet offices. there is a guy the next town over who i have heard about from a co-worker. i guess my co-worker found this kitten who was on its last limb, took it into this vet and he looked at him, gave him some advice, cleaned him up all free of charge because he knows how much my co-worker likes to help animals.

it just seems like there isnt any orginzation. i see a different vet every time and they dont communicate anything so its something different every time because, of course, they all have their own opinion. so i have ointments and shampoos and eye creams that havent done anything! and the funny thing is that i called the vet monday morning and said "its painfully obvious that this is a URI. The eye cream and vitamins havent worked so can i come by and pick up some clavamox?" obviously i have dealt with this many times. but they said "no you need to bring her in". then gave me clavamox. i liked our vet in middletown because we knew him after dealing with mo for over a year and if i called and said "this is wrong, i need to get this" they would just let me come get it because they understood that i know my own cat and know what meds he needs.

i think next time anything happens, or if this eye thing doesnt go away im going to take her to the doctor in murphysboro. in middletown we were only 1.5 hours from the ohio state vet clinic which is awesome but here were at least 3.5 hours from any vet school. the closest is u of illinois and the next closest is probably tennessee. too rural.

but i digress....she said not to try the lysine until i used the 10 days of clavamox and if she is still sneezing yellow/green mucous and still having eye discharge, then to try lysine. this is only her 3rd day on clavamox and she seems a little better so....well see :)