How to treat one FIP cat well?
If you could FOLLOW and COMPLETE the 4 STEPS well, you will have one high-quality treatment for your cats got with FIP .
FIP Introduction
Medicine Choose: GS
Determinig Dose of GS
*Following figures are only a guide.Each cat should be assessed based on severity of illness and symptoms in order to determine the appropriate starting dosage.
*Note: Higher Dosage Better FIP Treatment Slightly higher dosage doesn’t do bad to cats, the only bad is the higher cost.
* Relapse Dosage: When one cat has FIP relapse, dosage should increase 50% compared with previous. If one cat relapse with neuro symptoms although it’s wet FIP at first round, cat still need to be treated as Neuro FIP, 50% INCREASING is not enough.
GS Dosage Calculator
For more dosage calculater details, There is one easy and simple TOOL Dosage&Cost Calculator for you to make the calculation by yourself.
You will get clearly results of daily dosage by filling the cat weight, symptom and customize the injection or oral pills concentration.
Administering Injections
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Dosage Calculate: Cat weight(kg) * Dosage(mg/kg) : Concentration(mg/ml)
Inject Site
Some experienced cat parents have found that shaving certain parts of their cat’s body makes it easier to see what they are doing.
Inject Operate
Firstly, pinch some loose skin along the cat’s back with your thumb and index finger.
Hold the syringe firmly with your dominant hand, insert the needle into the folds of the skin, make the needle downwards at an angle of 30 to 45 degrees tilt .
Administer the GS of the syringe and remove the needle.
After injection, check the injection site to ensure that the full dose has been injected without leaks.
How to inject cats
Administering Oral Tablets
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Dosage Calculate: Cat weight(kg) * Dosage(mg/kg) : Pill Content(mg)
How to give cat GS pills
Switch between Injections and Oral Pills
FIP Cat Improvements after GS Treatment
- The fever usually goes down within 72 hours.
- Fluid build-up begins to subside within 5 to 10 days, disappear within 15 days. Each cat is different.
- Appetite will gradually return and bowel movements will gradually resume.
- Mental state will gradually recover.
- About three or four weeks, the cat with diarrhea will be no different from a normal healthy cat, but we should not take it lightly, and don’t think that the disease has been cured just because the cat has recovered.
- Once again, the treatment takes some time, and whether it is effective or not, we should look at the state of the cat in the early stage and the indicators in the later stage.
Supportive Care
"*" means VERY IMPORTANT
Begin of the treatment
DO NOT HAVE IT DRAINED without discussing with vet & admins.
- Draining the abdominal fluid is very risky and can cause your cat to go into shock and pass away.
- If fluid must be drained it should be no more than 30% and only if your cat’s belly becomes so full that eating, bowel movements or breathing are affected.
MANY but not ALL cats will benefit from a course of short-acting steroids.
Please ask your vet for a prescription.
- This helps stabilize the kitty while the GS starts working.
- Once stable they need to be weaned off the prednisolone.
- The goal is to be off the steroids by week three.
- 2 mg/kg of Prednisolone for the first few days or a week, then drop down to 1 mg/kg and wean.
- Don’t go over 1 mg/kg twice per day of Prednisolone, that is anti-inflammatory dosing.
- If your kitty isn’t stable or begins to decline, your vet & admins may recommend that you dose twice daily.
- That means a full dose every 12 hours. Once kitty is stable, you will stretch out to 24-hour dosing.
*During of Treatment*
- Please purchase an inexpensive digital baby scale to weigh with – see SUPPLIES section for links to buy.
- UNDER-DOSING increases the risk of relapse and resistance.
- Weigh your kitty in kilograms.
- If not, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 3 lbs 2 oz and 3.2 lbs.
- CBC and full chem panel should be done every 4 weeks during treatment so that your admins can monitor your kitty’s progess.
- Final bloodwork should be scheduled around day 80 so that your admins can give you the green light to enter observation after day 84.
- Injections should be at within one hour the same time every day. You can always inject EARLY but ask your admin for help if you need to move the time more than one hour later. • Leaks and misses happen. If you think only some leaked, redo half the dose. If you think most of the dose leaked out, redo the entire dose.
- Make sure to clean the area thoroughly if the meds leak. Diluted dish soap works well.
- Let your vet and admins know about ANY negative changes with your kitty.
- Consult your vet and admin before making any changes to the treatment plan, and do not give any new medications without asking first.
- PLAN AHEAD – Don’t run too low on GS before ordering more as there can always be shipping delays.
Stopping the FIP treatment
Step 1 (check cat stage):
After 84 days of medicine and cats in the situation as well as completely normal for more than a week, you can take the cat to do the examination (mainly blood, biochemical testing, SAA).
Step 2 (whether stopping the treatment):
Situation 1: If the A/G of 0.7 or more (better is 0.8 or more), SAA is normal. At this point in 10-15 days 441 can be stopped directly (can be soft stopping the injection so that the cat has a process of getting used to), it is recommended to leave 3 injections of meds has been done as a precautionary measure in case of relapse.
Situation 2: If the A/G is still below 0.8 (SAA, and blood routine at the moment to see normal cats appear very small problem, 99% are white ball ratio does not meet the standard), but also to continue to inject for 15 days, then do the examination. If you reach the index of stopping the needle, enter the situation 1 phase of stopping the needle, if it is still not normal is divided into two cases:
Situation 2.1: The cat’s A/G has risen by a long time, usually more than 0.5 increase, but also continue to continue the injection according to Situation 2.
Situation 2.2: The difference between the cat’s A/G and the previous one is very small ± 0.2, at this time, you can also consider stopping the treatment, and follow the Situation 1.
All of the above is for reference only, the specific situation needs to be judged according to the cat’s condition. As you go through treatment, stay in contact with your vet and/or treatment advisor — they cannot advise you about things they don’t know about.