[magnolia]

Please keep a watch on your furbaby with this infection! Let me share my story - last spring, we put in a stone patio. We did not realize how harmful cement can be until Gabby! There was dry mix on the ground by the mixer we had rented that she walked through....then proceeded to go inside and begin licking her paws. The cement acted like acid on her poor paws and by the time we realized something was wrong, all of her paws were red, inside of her ears were red and parts of her belly. Took her to vet, he said infection had developed into yeast infection. He soaked her in a solution there at his office for 20 minutes, gave me oral antibiotics and cream to put on her feet. Unbeknownst to us, by this point, in scratching her face, she transferred the infection into her mouth which found it's way into her GI tract. Two days later, she almost died!!! She could not eat or drink anything without throwing up that Saturday morning so I rushed her back to the vet. Vet said if I had waited until Monday, she would have been dead. He kept her for 5 days on iv antibiotics, sent us home to continue what he had given me prior to her being kept there. It took about 3 weeks to get it totally cleared up.

I'm not sure how your baby developed the infection but please know I'll be praying for a speedy recovery. As others have said, it will take time to clear this up but do what the vet has said do in the course of treatment. And if things get worse, get back to the vet.