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My cat has flu-like symptoms after spay, no vet. What can I do?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Persian | Female | spayed | 11 months and 17 days old

my cat's having flu, she was spayed 10 days ago. no vet available rite now in my area. what to do!! a very sudden climatic change.

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Answered By Daniel Fonza, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on November 10th, 2019

Hi there and thank you for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach to address your concern. If Snowy is dealing with a respiratory infection, this could be due to a bacterial or viral infection. To start, you can put her near a humidifier and start her on Lysine to see if this helps. Lysine will help lessen the severity and duration of a herpes infection and the humidifier will help moisten the air possibly improving any congestion. I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and if these symptoms persist or she worsens, then I would have a veterinarian take a look at her so that the most appropriate diagnostic and treatment recommendations can be made.

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