My rescue kitty has eye infection.how long does it take for terramycin 2 work.will it look worse before better?

i rescued 2 kittens from my elderly neighbor's shed. the mother abandoned them.





they are now about 6 weeks. and the little one has an eye infection. somewhat resembling pink eye. it was inflamed. oozing and closed shut.





i could not afford a vet visit, so a pet supply store friend suggested terramycin opthamalmic ointment.





i began cleaning the eye with saline solution before each application of the terramycin. it began to work. next day his eye stopped oozing. next day after that the eye opened and no more swelling. next day after that his eye looked MUCH better. just a little red around the edges. and you could see most of his eye.





but the very next day, after applying the terramycin the night before, he woke up the next morning and his eye looked worse. a sort of swelling on/ under lid. and a bit red again. puffy, and teary.





i discontinued use of the terramycin. and miraculously the eye looked better again the next day. but then i was told to continue the terramycin for at least 7 more days.





i started the terramycin and saline cleanings again, and again the same pattern.


day 1 good. day 2 better. day 3 even better. day 4 swollen and inflamed again.





i don't know. i read a blog where a woman posted a photo of her kitten. who also had an eye infection. HIS EYE LOOKED JUST LIKE MY LITTLE GUYS!!!





she also said she did the terramycin ointment and was concerned, as his eye was not healing. but miraculously, the 3rd day he look much better. except for a little redness. just as mine had.





anyone have experience with terramycin?


is there such a thing as overuse in terramycin?





is there a point where it plateaus?





or should i just continue the use even though it looks bad? could that be a part of the healing process? is it uncommon for when using terramycin, the kittens eye will look better, then look worse in order to complete the treatment?





i really want him to be comfortable. and i am happy to foster he and his brother until we find a loving permanent home. although i have fallen in love with them!





but a vet bill is so not in my budget. i am paycheck to paycheck.





any help with my questions will certainly help.





thanks in advance.My rescue kitty has eye infection.how long does it take for terramycin 2 work.will it look worse before better?
If it's herpes, then the terramycin won't even begin to help. And I know that you don't want to hear this, but an untreated herpes infection in a kitten can get really bad, to the point where they will lose an eye. If the conjuctiva continue to swell, then I'm sorry but he needs to go to the vet. I just got done with a week's aggressive treatment of a foster kitten with a bad herpes infection, and it was really questionable for a while if he'd lose an eye or not. When they are young like that, they just don't have enough of an immune system to fight things off (mine was abandonded at the shelter at 5 weeks old). We ended up with two different eye treatments - a drop given every couple hours and a different ointment given at night. And l-lysine of course! It still took over a week to clear up, but there was improvement after only three days.





So no - it won't look worse as part of the treatment. If terramycin is going to work, you can see the results in a couple of days.My rescue kitty has eye infection.how long does it take for terramycin 2 work.will it look worse before better?
stay off any medication, it can irritate his eye even more, just gently dab his eye with warm cotton wool and if he starts to pick up, use a tiny bit of savlon on the infected are.





hope this helped xxx
You might be using the meds too much. I don't usually use it more than a couple of days in a row. Then give it a chance to heal. Try and get the 3in1 or maybe they call it 5in1 shots at a low cost clinic. You want the ones for the upper respiratory infections. That will help avoid reoccurences. Bless you for helping the baby kitty, they are so precious.
You will have to keep applying the ointment for at least 2 weeks and I would get Lysine in a capsule and add it to their food. It will help break the dna chain for the feline herpes virus, that can cause the eyes to become infected. Read up and the Feline Herpes virus. And what you give their body will take what it need and get rid of the rest. I would give all the kittens the L-lysine. I hope you do the research and learn what you are dealing with it will shed some light on the what is going on.





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Go on the medicine, it might irritate more but it'll help. my uncle's cat had and eye infection and he went on medicine, in about a week, it looked like there was nothing there!


hope i really helped ya out!