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My cat has a mouth or throat infection. Is metronidazole effective?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Male | 15 lbs

Is metronidazole a medicine to give cats with an infection in the mouth and throat

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Answered By Destini R. Holloway, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on July 17th, 2017

Typically Metronidazole is good for GI infections and sometimes urinate infections. I typically go with Clindamycin for oral infections and Doxycyline for respiratory infections. However your vet can do a bacterial culture to verify what antibiotic will be effective against Avery's bacterial infection. Best wishes and take care.

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    Answered By Karly Macon, DVM, MS, CVA Certified Veterinary Acupuncturist

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    Metronidazole is an antibiotic that I use frequently in cats, but usually those with gastrointestinal issues like diarrhea. I am not sure what you mean by mouth and throat infection. if your cat has severe dental disease it may need to have a dental procedure and radiographs under anesthesia, as well as antibiotics, but metronidazole would not be my first choice for an antibiotic in that situation. And I do not know what "throat infection" means--without an endoscope there is no way to see into a cat's esophagus or trachea, so I'm not sure how one would know that this was going on without extensive diagnostics. It would be great to have more information, like has your cat had a complete oral exam done, has it had bloodwork and radiographs, does it have concurrent diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms?

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