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Cat ear infection medicine side effects.
Ear infections in cats can be caused by a number of things including a piece of debris caught in their ear canal wax buildup in the ear canal allergies to food or pollen autoimmune diseases thick hair in the ear canal a ruptured eardrum drug reactions tumors or polyps in the ear canal and environmental irritants.
Less commonly surgery may be needed.
Bear in mind that there are many different types of mite out there.
If the specific cause can be identified such as bacterial or fungal infection treatment could involve long term medications.
A discharge may be present in the ears and in severe cases visible on the fur outside and around the ears.
If your vet has ruled out ear mites the culprit in about half of all feline ear infections they ll have to do some sleuthing to figure out what s causing your cat s outer or middle ear infection.
Cat s claw might decrease how quickly the liver breaks down some medications.
Tresaderm is a topical medication used very frequently in cats for the treatment of ear infections.
Unless there is an underlying problem like a ruptured ear drum i would not expect to see any side effects like you describe.
It s used in the treatment of cats with infections caused by bacteria such as wounds like animal bites bladder infections tooth abscesses eye or ear infections skin infections and.
A cat with an ear infection or other ear problem will shake its head and paw at its ears.
Taking cat s claw along with some medications that are broken down by the liver can increase the effects and side.
Otherwise there are rare cases of cats with underlying liver disease developing worsening of that disease with this medication.
Though if zakk had a perforated ear drum and these were used we could have hearing loss.
Otitis interna can cause some significant signs in your cat including drooling from the side of the mouth difficulty eating inability to blink and drooping eyelids lips and nostril on the affected side.
In regards question about side effects for ekt ear drops i would note that side effects are uncommon.
Data sources include ibm watson micromedex updated 1 oct 2020 cerner multum updated 1 oct 2020 wolters kluwer updated.
