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Cat Forum / General Topics / June 2004Feline Herpes Virus
anyone have any experience with this? just got a new kitten and think she may have it.......interested in anyones experiences good and bad......and how it affected other cats already at home etc.....any info would be appreciated.thanks In the fine newsgroup "alt.cats", queenofthegameb@aol.com 2004: > anyone have any experience with this? just got a new kitten and > think she may have it.......interested in anyones experiences > good and bad......and how it affected other cats already at home > etc.....any info would be appreciated.thanks That is one virus innoculated by the FVRCP series of shots and boosters. If the cats you have already at home are up to date on shots they *should* be fine but you still want to take precautions by separating the sick cat from the others until it is under control. Also, wash your hands when you touch the sick one, wear clothes and shoes that you can change out before you go back in contact with the others. For the sick one, the enzyme l-lysine (bought in capsule form at the grocery store, or health food stores in 500 mg capsules) given at a dose of 250 mg 2x per day (mix the powder with canned food) will treat him/her. Feline herpes (rhinotracheitis) will often cause anorexia in the kitten because he cannot smell the food. If the virus is severe, you may have to hand feed, or force feed until the lysine takes effect. I had luck using a spoon under the nose of the sick kitty and she licked the food off when she was anorexic. This took about a week until she felt better. Sometimes the virus can cause a secondary bacterial infection and antibiotics are needed, so keeping in touch with the vet is recommended.  SignatureCheryl THANK YOU for your helpful info. Here is my situation so far.......9 wk old kitten......eats like a horse, drinks water, plays like crazy, developed red swollen eyes after a few days of bringing her home....no discharge per se....just watery. Still dont have a clear diagnosis, but am doing Lysine, and an ointment (tetra something) and after a week shes finally healing. My 2 others are a year and a half and almost 5, and fully vaccinated....scared to death that they'll catch this.....have kept the kitty separate so far......do you have one with this virus? am i crazy to keep the kitty? so worried about what to do........... It almost sounds like it was just conjunctivitis, or "pink eye," same thing we humans can get. It is contagious but not dire, just wash your hands after playing with kitty. The vet can tell if lymph nodes were swollen, listen to the lungs, etc., to tell if there is any sign of respiratory infection. Our kittens here have gotten conjunctivitis without having it be a respiratory infection. It's always such a challenge to get those drops past the claws and into the eyes... Rhonda > THANK YOU for your helpful info. Here is my situation so far.......9 wk old > kitten......eats like a horse, drinks water, plays like crazy, developed red [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > you have one with this virus? am i crazy to keep the kitty? so worried about > what to do........... i think what was puzzling was that this develped slowly, did not really respond to amoxi for 11 days, and after a few hour car ride to visit an ailing relative with her in tow (stress?) they got much worse. Actually saw a vet in the town i was staying in i was so concerned. It was then that herpes was thrown out there. I guess im going to have to look into some kind of test.....just trying to get all the info i can first......she had a teeny bit of sneezing, very little discharge at all other than watery eyes, the main prob was the redness and swelling of the eyes.....the tissue inside the eye under the 'lid' looked like ground meat.....was icky. much better now.........so ?? In the fine newsgroup "alt.cats", queenofthegameb@aol.com 2004: > i think what was puzzling was that this develped slowly, did not > really respond to amoxi for 11 days, and after a few hour car [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > like ground meat.....was icky. > much better now.........so ?? Ask about calici virus. Also a virus covered under the FRVCP vaccination. SignatureCheryl In the fine newsgroup "alt.cats", queenofthegameb@aol.com 2004: > do > you have one with this virus? am i crazy to keep the kitty? so > worried about what to do........... I still have the one that had the virus. She's had no recurrance of the virus, but I understand that is possible. I stopped the Lysine after the first two weeks and she's been fine ever since. If she were to ever start showing symptoms of the herpes virus, I'd start her on the lysine again. Over a year later she hasn't been sick. As I said, the other two never got sick and they both have autoimmune deficiencies. (one IBD and the other severe allergies) I'll expand on this to tell you how well cats adapt. A year after my oldest cat got sick and then contracted FeLV (via blood transfusion), I kennelled (cat sat) for a friend who was fostering many many cats/kittens. Out of 60 cats, 40 were kittens and had distemper. I was worried about bringing home the virus on me but I took the only precautions I knew which was to wash my hands before I left her house, and change clothes before I came home which I left at her house. I'd shower when I came home. Left shoes outside. I thought for sure I'd leave some germ that my FeLV+ cat would get but that never happened. Trust in the vaccinations because vets insist on them for a reason. Now if we can only prove that they don't need so damned many! SignatureCheryl > In the fine newsgroup "alt.cats", queenofthegameb@aol.com > 2004: [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > insist on them for a reason. Now if we can only prove that they > don't need so damned many! I work at an animal shelter, and was told to mix a cpl of tablets of crushed up Lysine with some canned food to help ease the symptoms some and it seems to be working great. Hope this helps some. |
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