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Why does my cat's sneezing and coughing keep returning after meds?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Domestic Shorthair | Female | spayed | 10 lbs

My cat was sneezing and coughing. Took her to a vet and they gave her Convenia. After three days her nose started bleeding and her sneezing got worse. Took her to another vet and they gave her clavamox or something like that with prednisone. She did great on that. Did it for ten days and then two days later symptoms came back. Vet Gave her another dose of same meds. Ten days later she was great. Two days later her nose was bleeding again and she wouldn’t eat. Vet gave her azithromyacin. She’s be

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on March 13th, 2019

Clavamox and Convenia are not suitable antibiotics for this type of infection, azithromyacin is a very good option and should solve the problem, if it doesn't i would recommend asking your vet to try Doxycycline or Veraflox next.

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