In October, we bought our kitten (we call him Buddy) from a PetSmart when he
was 12 weeks old (they get their cats from a local rescue/fostering
organization). Although it took a couple of weeks to discover it, he came
home with a nice case of ringworm.  We put him on oral and topical meds and
regular shampooing, and after a couple of long months it went away (although
four months later, I still get an occasional lesion popping up--how
annoying!).

Anyway, around the holidays we boarded him for a week at our vet's place
while we went on vacation (the ringworm was gone by then and he was given
the "all clear" by our vet). When we brought him home he was sneezing and
coughing and had a very oozy left eye. The vet said that the stress of being
boarded must have caused a cold or virus. She put him on an oral antibiotic
and gave us a Vaseline-like antibiotic grease that we applied to both of his
eyes a couple of times a day for a week or so. The ooziness in the eye and
the coughing went away, although he stilled sneezed occasionally. The vet
advised shouldn't worry about it, but should keep an eye on him to be sure
it didn't get worse. Things didn't seem bad, so we pretty much forgot about
it.

Then in February we left town again for two days, this time leaving the cat
at home by himself (we left plenty of food and water). When we returned, we
found him sneezing and coughing again, this time more severely than before.
Also, his *other* eye was now oozy. After a couple of days the sneezing and
coughing tapered off to just a few times a day, but the eye still looked
bad, so I called the vet again. Rather than resuming the antibiotics, the
vet suggested adding an L-Lysine supplement to his diet to control the eye
infections (we put the stuff on a bit of wet food and he loves it). After a
week or so, the eye was completely fine, so we discontinued the supplement.
Now, a few days later, he's still sneezing and coughing (though not as
often), and the *other* eye (the one that was infected the first time) is
oozy yet again.

Needless to say, we're concerned. It may be worth noting that during all of
this time he seems to be fine. He's eating, sleeping, and playing just like
a normal kitten. No sign of being sick at all. But the sneezing, coughing,
and alternating eye infections have us worried.

I'm wondering: might he have a lowered immune system from getting ringworm
as a small kitten and now has a virus that keeps flaring up, or maybe he has
some kind of chronic upper respiratory infection or asthma or ??

If anyone has a similar experience or can shine some light on this, I'd
appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jon