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Cat's ears--how far down can I go?
I am a new cat owner--I adopted a stray young cat dropped off at my
cousin's house Thanksgiving. He has been having a problem with one of his ears. Vet said it was a yeast infection and gave me some drops to use for two weeks. I came up north for the summer and wanted to make sure the ear was cleared up and took him to a vet. Drops did not take care of the problem and I had the new vet pull a culture and he is on some new drops for a week. In the office, she put a swab down and got the debris out. My Question: Exactly how far down a cat's ear can you go? It looked like they went pretty far down. I am wondering if I didn't get the first round of drops down far enough. Whenever I have gone to the vet, I always make her examine the ears to make sure they are okay. Flurry is on Revolution, so I don't have to worry about ear mites. |
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Cat's ears--how far down can I go?
On May 18, 7:58 am, New cat owner wrote:
I am a new cat owner--I adopted a stray young cat dropped off at my cousin's house Thanksgiving. He has been having a problem with one of his ears. Vet said it was a yeast infection and gave me some drops to use for two weeks. I came up north for the summer and wanted to make sure the ear was cleared up and took him to a vet. Drops did not take care of the problem and I had the new vet pull a culture and he is on some new drops for a week. In the office, she put a swab down and got the debris out. My Question: Exactly how far down a cat's ear can you go? It looked like they went pretty far down. I am wondering if I didn't get the first round of drops down far enough. I'd personally *not* use a swab in a cat's ear. If I need to wipe out a cat's ear, I use a Kleenex and wipe out the outermost part (what you can see when looking into their ears). I don't go deep inside for fear of damaging/hurting their hearing. It's possible the infection your cat has just didn't respond to the first round of drops you used. What did the culture show? Rene |
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Cat's ears--how far down can I go?
It's possible the infection your cat has just didn't respond to the first round of drops you used. What did the culture show? Rene The first vet did a swab and looked at it right away and said it was yeast. The culture done up here in the north was sent to the State University. They told me it could take two weeks to get the results back. |
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Cat's ears--how far down can I go?
On May 18, 10:49 pm, New cat owner wrote:
It's possible the infection your cat has just didn't respond to the first round of drops you used. What did the culture show? Rene The first vet did a swab and looked at it right away and said it was yeast. The culture done up here in the north was sent to the State University. They told me it could take two weeks to get the results back. Wow, two weeks! I guess all you can do is finish out the second round of drops, get the results, and see what the next step is. |
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Cat's ears--how far down can I go?
Yes, I was shocked also. At a hospital you get results in 2 days. He
seems not to be shaking and scratching at his ear so much, so maybe these drops are working---Transaderm (? spelling). |
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