Hey all!
One of my cats has been having issues with eye infections for awhile. It’s been a problem since I originally took him in as a stray a few years ago, but he has months where there are no problems and others where it won’t go away. It’s mostly the left eye. It gets weepy, covered in black crusties, and sometimes he keeps it shut a lot. I’ve never seen him rub at it at all so I don’t think it is itchy, and he doesn’t seem to have an issue with me messing with it (at least, not any more than usual for a cat).
The vet has prescribed an ophthalmic ointment (neomycin/polymyxin b sulfates/bacitracin zinc), but it often doesn’t seem to be doing much, and when it does, the infections keep coming back before long.
i know eye infections are supposed to be contagious, but fortunately none of my other cats have gotten them.
At this point, I’m kind of stumped. Should I push harder at the vet for an alternative solution? Try a different vet? Is it possible that it’s not an eye infection at all and just some sort of structural thing with his eye?
One of my cats has been having issues with eye infections for awhile. It’s been a problem since I originally took him in as a stray a few years ago, but he has months where there are no problems and others where it won’t go away. It’s mostly the left eye. It gets weepy, covered in black crusties, and sometimes he keeps it shut a lot. I’ve never seen him rub at it at all so I don’t think it is itchy, and he doesn’t seem to have an issue with me messing with it (at least, not any more than usual for a cat).
The vet has prescribed an ophthalmic ointment (neomycin/polymyxin b sulfates/bacitracin zinc), but it often doesn’t seem to be doing much, and when it does, the infections keep coming back before long.
i know eye infections are supposed to be contagious, but fortunately none of my other cats have gotten them.
At this point, I’m kind of stumped. Should I push harder at the vet for an alternative solution? Try a different vet? Is it possible that it’s not an eye infection at all and just some sort of structural thing with his eye?