What may be the cause of breathing difficulties in newborn kittens?

 8:23am, 3 July 2025

Many kittens will drool or have difficulty breathing or not eat milk or gain weight after a few days of birth.

This situation is generally caused by infection.

The difficulty in raising newborn milk cats. It is necessary to start from the daily needs of the milk cats. The biggest possibility is lung infection. To be more accurate, it is

inhalation pneumonia.

Simplely understood,

may be because the female cat choked with too much milk, and

may also be because the kitten was not thrown cleanly when it was born, which caused chronic infection.

No matter what the situation is, it is an infection caused by watery substances traveling along the trachea to the lungs.

Aspiration pneumonia is basically a terminal illness for novices.

But in fact, if the method is correct, there is still a high chance of curing, as long as you observe your kitten every day and discover the problem as soon as possible. General treatment options include:

cleaning the mouth, gently patting the chest,

antibiotics are injected subcutaneously or oral, and oxygen inhalation.

A slightly larger cat, such as a kitten that is over 20 days or more.

It is also necessary to combine atomization treatment.

The above methods are used properly, and the

generally has a cure rate of more than 70%.