Part 3 – Nov. 2023

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November 07, 2023

While I had Jackson on a full dose of Lysine and Olive Leaf Extract, his runny nose was better, but he wasn’t active and playing.  Before his flare, he and his brother Bansky would romp through the house at least twice a day. While on the meds, they playing stopped entirely.  This made me think that the medicine might be upsetting his stomach or something.

After the symptoms of the flare subsided, I stopped giving him any remedies for about two weeks and his stuffy nose came back. He started sneezing snot-rockets all over the walls, and furniture, and once on our parakeet!  After three weeks of the nasal symptoms, he started to cough periodically. 

 I was able to hear him breathing everywhere he went, and I was actually picking dried mucus (boogers) off his clogged nasal passages numerous times a day.  I NEVER would have thought I would be picking my cat’s nose, but here we are.  He now realizes that when I pick at his nostrils, he can breathe afterward, so he holds still and lets me work my booger magic!

Rather than just let him suffer, I decided to give him both lysine and olive leaf extract again, but in much smaller doses.  I have been giving him ⅛ of a 500mg capsule of lysine (roughly 62.5mg each time) and two drops of olive leaf extract, twice a day – morning and evening.  I added a tiny pinch of Bovine Collustrum to the mix too.  I give all of it in Temptations puree treats and he scarfs it right down.  

His cold symptoms have slowly been improving over the last two weeks.  His runny nose is minimal now, so that’s awesome! No more snot-rockets, and his breathing does not announce his presence! 

As of December 1st, his symptoms are consistent with what they were in my last post.  He will periodically become more boogery, but then it will go away again without me changing anything.  Jackson is a very jumpy cat.  He’s awesome, but if something is dropped near him, he’s one of those cats that is gone faster than you can blink.  I am wondering if, since herpesvirus is activated by stress, that maybe he is aways high stress and thus always boogery.  I am going to try adding pure CDB oil to the regime and see if a calmer Jackson, will be a less boogery Jackson.  Fingers crossed!!!

Curse of the Chronic Cat Cold – Part 1.

Curse of the Chronic Cat Cold – Part 2.

What is a Chronic Upper Respiratory Infection? Read more about it HERE.