How to Care for a Kitten that is Vomiting from the Nose

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Dr. Adrienne Mulligan and I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic and I am here on behalf of Expert Village.com to talk to you today about caring for kittens. Now if your kitten seems to be vomiting milk and then you notice it is actually coming out of its nose instead of vomiting out of its mouth, that is a big concern because kittens can be born with a congenital problem where that the hard pallet in the rough of their mouth isn’t closed up and so when they nurse, the milk comes up and out their nose. This usually will happen at a very young age. You are going to notice this in the first week of life and this is a serious condition that generally cannot be fixed or helped and the vet should diagnose it and that little kitten probably isn’t long for this world to be humane because that is not something that you can do much about. So vomiting and regurgitating milk and that sort of thing, those are things that you will see that will need to be seen by your veterinarian. "