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Recently, my cat was bit by another cat in the hindquarter. I removed an adult size cat tooth from her leg. At this time, she was also sneezing quite a bit. I took her to the vet and her temp. was 105 degrees. He gave her a massive dose of antibiotics (Benzathine Penicillin/Dexame) and then gave me a 10 day treatment of amoxicillan for the cat. My cat is still has bouts of continuous sneezing after day 4 of antibiotics. She does not have any nasal discharge or unusual symptoms with her eyes or nose. At this point, I can’t afford another vet treatment if this is just a common cold. Thank you!

Margie Freeman
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Santa Barbara, CA
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Submitted: 1729 days and 19 hours ago.
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 Cats suffer from upper respiratory virsuses and they are not responsive to antibiotics. Actually the fact that your cat is not blowing yellow nasal discharge all over does signify the antibiotics are doing something.

My recommendation is to let it ride out its course. There is nothing additional that can be done, since you have the cat on medication.  It may be an allergy, but I am guessing a virus from the other cat.

Sometimes it can take 14 days for these infections to run their course. If your cat has increased efforts to breath, stops eating, or develops significant nasal discharge...a return visit to the vet is needed.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Dr.Vamvakias

Expert: DanaDVM
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Answered: 2/13/2005

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1726 days and 13 hours ago.

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Reply to Dr. Vamvakias's Post: Thank you for the advice! My cat seems to be sneezing less often as each day passes. She doesn't seem to have any other symptoms so I'll finish off her course of antibiotics and hopefully she'll be back on her feet again!

Posted by DanaDVM 1726 days and 13 hours ago.

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 You are most welcome.

Good luck!

Dr.V

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