Diagnosing Respiratory Infections
Signs show from 2-17 days after exposure. The worst symptoms are at
10 days.
First severe sneezing lasts for about 1 - 2 days.
Next there is conjunctivitis. Ths is called "pink eye". The eyes are pink.
Pink eye - Photo by Elisa Black-Taylor
There is also runny nose and the eyes water too.
Days 3 - 5 and the cat may have a fever and be apathetic and lose his or her appetite.
How to check a cat's temperature
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The watery discharge from the eyes and nose may become a mucous like discharge.
The cat might breath with mouth open. The eyes might be inflammed.
There may be a cough combined with sneezing.
Cat with cold - drooling
by
Detlef C
Further signs are (for upper respiratory infection caused by calicivirus) ulcers in mouth, drooling and shortness of breath,
dehydration
(lack of skin elasticity), starvation.
