I have a one year old male sphynx that we recently took to the vet to
find out what is going on with his oddities. To begin, his lymph nodes
or glands are swollen and have been since we bought him at 16 weeks.
He has seen many vet visits and was on a few different antibiotics and
recieved penicillin shots to clear up what we were told was a
respiratory infection. He did have respiratory problems in that he had
trouble breathing due to constantly being full of snot and other gunk.
Antibiotics and antihistemines did not do much and we took him back to
the breeder. She spoke with her vet and recommended giving him the
third set of his shots, and although sick, it may help boost his
immune system. That it did and he got better. BUT, since he was a
kitten, he's had these weird zit looking pores identical in size and
placement on either side of his throat mid way down his neck. these
pores also have "tubes" attatched that run what looks like in the
direction of his lymph nodes which are still swollen. If you squeeze
lightly on either tube, like a zit, it squirts out kind of a dirty
puss, but not a great deal and I do this every so often as to keep
them drained. If they are left to go for about a week they sort of
fill up. The vet spoke with a specialist, after taking blood and
removing some cells from the lymph node, and all they could come up
with is the eosinophilic complex as a possibility. But this isn't the
normal area or even similar symptoms for the complex. He is negative
for leukemia and aids, eats and plays normal, does not seem to be
affected other than his cry is sort of weak and scratchy and he
doesn't really meow much at all. All in all, he is in perfect health
but has a high white blood cell count and the cells are reactive,
which means his body is fighting something but not even our vet can
figure out exactly what its fighting. If there is anyone with any
clues as to what might be going on with our cat, please let us know.