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My kitten has a swollen eye. Is it an infection? What should I do?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | unspayed | 1lb

We have a barn kitten that we found and her eye has been I don't really know how to describe it but I'll send a picture along but after doing a little bit of online research I was wondering what your thoughts were if a broad-spectrum antibiotic would help her please and thank you

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on October 19th, 2018

This is probably an upper respiratory infection. it's very common in young cats and is very contagious to other cats as well. It is treated with antibiotic eye drops/ointment and oral antibiotics for about 2 weeks, the recommended antibiotics are Zhytromax or Veraflox (other antibiotics do not work well for this condition). if left untreated many cats will end up blind or even die from the disease. I advise going to your vet asap to start the treatment right away.

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