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My cat has feline herpes… supposedly?

My mom took my cat to the vet recently and the vet said that the cat has feline herpes. However, i looked it up online and none of the symptoms match but one: eye discharge. I’m pretty sure that my cat doesn’t have herpes, but another virus or bacteria causing the discharge in his eyes; since that is the ONLY thing wrong with him that he has. Herpes in felines also causes a loss of appetite, and i, for one, have never seen a cat eat as much as him. Do you guys think that there is a possibility of a wrong diagnosis going on here? I don’t want my mom to spend money on this suppresent for this herpes virus if he doesn’t even have it! Anything else that he might have…?
My mom just came home from the vet, and she’s saying that he most likely doesn’t have herpes either. Our family vet is special obviously…. but what else could this be then? Just a bacterial infection? I don’t think he’s having a flair up, so what would cause this untill the bacterial infection cleared up?

Feline herpes is very common, and the most common thing about it is the eye discharge, not fevers or anything else–so yours is showing standard symptoms.

It’s fortunately extremely easy to get rid of when the eyes start running. FIV cats show signs of this all the time and there’s an over the counter CHEAP remedy that clears it up in 3 days in nearly all the cats.

The vitamin section of the grocery store has a bottle of Lysine (sometimes called L-Lysine, same thing) for about $5 for 60 pills. It’s an amino acid that bonds to the virus in the cat and negates it. You crush a pill and put it over their food – it’s tasteless – and give it once a day for 7 days. It’ll clear up any runny eye problem caused by the herpes virus. A cat dose is 250 to 500mg. Dont’ use the gel caps, they taste awful and the cat won’t eat that. The pills are tasteless and cats will eat it on their food.

It has no side effects other than possible constipation (we’ve never seen that in ours), and you can’t overdose the cat with it, their bodies excrete what they can’t use. It won’t interfere with any other medications either.

You can check this with any vet, of course. I’d expect you to. We’ve used this with our cats when they have an outbreak, and it also works with humans who get cold sores in winter (same virus type).

If the discharge is caused by the Calci virus, though, the lysine will do nothing to stop that. The Calci virus needs a prescription from the vet, and it’s often an eye ointment that has to be used for at least 14 days. One of our FIV cats had that version and it was pretty hard to clear up in him.

I wouldn’t sweat it, the feline herpes is in a large amount of cats and usually doesn’t show up till their immune system gets sort of low. It’s easy to keep under control.

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