State of the Cat
Jul. 18th, 2016 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raincitygirlSince I know you're all waiting with bated breath to hear the results of Young Miss Weaver's visit to the veterinary ophthalmologist, so short version: everything is absolutely fine. Long version: the lesions on her eyeballs that her regular vet spotted are due to malnutrition as a feral kitten. Extremely, extremely common in cats from a feral background. They will NOT get worse, because she's on a good diet now.
The eye infection is not an infection, which they know from the tests her regular vet ran a week ago, all of which came back negative. It's feline herpes-related. Typically happens on a 3 week cycle and gets better on its own (just as it's been starting to do these last few days). Triggered usually by stress. If it comes back and/or gets worse, I should start adding an amino acid called lysine to her food, which will treat the herpes. It won't make it go away because herpes is for life, but it will ameliorate her symptoms. P.S. Feline herpes is not sexually transmitted! I also have a list of possible symptoms which should alarm me and for which she should go back to the vet, but she doesn't currently have any of those symptoms.
Oh, and she clawed the veterinary ophthalmologist on the leg. Poor woman.
Phew!
The eye infection is not an infection, which they know from the tests her regular vet ran a week ago, all of which came back negative. It's feline herpes-related. Typically happens on a 3 week cycle and gets better on its own (just as it's been starting to do these last few days). Triggered usually by stress. If it comes back and/or gets worse, I should start adding an amino acid called lysine to her food, which will treat the herpes. It won't make it go away because herpes is for life, but it will ameliorate her symptoms. P.S. Feline herpes is not sexually transmitted! I also have a list of possible symptoms which should alarm me and for which she should go back to the vet, but she doesn't currently have any of those symptoms.
Oh, and she clawed the veterinary ophthalmologist on the leg. Poor woman.
Phew!
