my kitten is about 3 months old and has watery eyes, running nose, and will not eat or drink. Is there anything I can do athome to help her?
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Andrea Selner says:
June 01st, 2009 at 07:23 PM
This sounds like an upper respiratory infection. You can try placing your kitten in the bathroom with you when you shower the steam from the shower helps to break up the mucouse that is accumulating. More than likely you will need to contact your Veterinarian to get proper medications to help eleviate the effects of the virus such as an oral antibiotic and antibiotic ointment for the eyes. Usually these are fairly inexpensive to treat. Also your kitten can not smell and when cats can't smell they will not eat so warming up canned food especially fish types are very aromatic and then they will eat, if they still do not eat you will have to force feed them so that they do not become more ill. Hills makes a diet called A/d which when mixed with water becomes like a gruel you then can syringe feed your kitten about every 4-6 hours. Your kitten needs to have good nutrition in order to overcome the infection. Good luck, Andrea
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