one of my kittens suffered a severe allergic reaction to her 1st vaccination,symptoms started as soon as she was home from vets,sleepiness,unable to wake her up,not eating or drinking,she was admitted and given fluids,antihistamines etc,and after a couple of days was almost back to normal.The vet waived the fees incurred,which has made me suspicious,could the batch have been out of date,or could she have picked somathing up from the surgery? The vet said this is rare and she should be fine to have her second jab,but will this happen again??has anyone experienced this?? kitten was perfectly fine and healthy before the vet visit,and is 10 weeks old.obviously her new owners are beside themselves with worry,as it was touch and go for a while

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Hi sorry to hear of your poor cats experience. I took my Yorkie to the vet last week for her first years booster, she was fighting fit when we went in and by the evening she was in a terrible shaking state. I had to take her back the next day as she was still shaking and wouldn't eat or walk. She has developed a lump on the place where one of the jabs was given.

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When Millie had her 1st lot of injections she was fine when we got her home. However a day later she started limping which concerned us. By the afternoon she could not walk. We took her to the vets and this timid little kitten hissed and performed to the point the vet had to scruff her. Turns out it was a reaction to the vaccination. The vet was gonna report this as it was the second kitten he had seen in 2 weeks like this. He gave her an injection of painkiller and anti inflamatory and within 20 minutes she was right as rain. He assured us her 2nd set of injections should still be done and that she would be fine, and thank goodness she was. Such a worry though.

I think it's very nice of your vet to waive the fees. When my kitten had a bad reaction to her vaccinations and was rushed back in, on christmas eve which fell on a sunday, we were charged full whack for the visit as well as the vaccinations. I would suggest discussing your options with the vet. Do they not do the first ones a week apart, or did you get them at the same time? OUr new vets said when they do both vaccinations, the do the first two a week apart and then the follow up 2 weeks later.

it happened over the easter weekend,she had them both together.The waiving of the fees made me a bit suspicious..

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Ours was over the Easter weekend too but our vet didn't waiver our charges. She told us that with a person they clean the area before injecting but with animals they don't and a bit of bacteria can get pushed under the skin and then gets infected and then an abcess can develop.

In my experience vaccination reactions are fairly common - certainly in kittens, far less so in adults. So are lumps at the vaccination site - they normally disappear within a month or so at the most.

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