Use feline plague hyperimmune serum or feline monoclonal antibody for intramuscular or subcutaneous injection, 2 ml per kilogram of body weight, usually once every other day. If it is very serious, it can be injected once a day, up to 3 times in a row.
Use feline recombinant interferon, 300,000 to 500,000 units per kilogram of body weight.
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Symptomatic treatment
Anti-emetic: Food and water should be avoided when vomiting occurs. Metoclopramide injection 0.15~0.25 ml per kilogram of body weight, twice a day, intramuscularly or subcutaneously.
Anti-inflammatory: Gentamicin 10,000 units per kilogram of body weight or kanamycin 50,000 to 100,000 units per kilogram of body weight, twice a day, intramuscularly or subcutaneously.
Antipyretic: Bupleurum injection 0.3 ml per kilogram of body weight, twice a day.
Hemostasis: Vitamin K3 injection 0.3 ml per kilogram of body weight, twice a day, intramuscular injection.
Fluid rehydration: When dehydration or vomiting occurs, mix 5 to 10 ml of 25% glucose, 5 ml of 5% sodium bicarbonate, and 30 to 50 ml of compound normal saline for intravenous injection.
Dietary therapy: It is recommended to feed a small amount of easily digestible, low-fiber, low-fat food, 3 to 6 times a day. Prescription foods for acute gastroenteritis disease are also available. Gradually increase the amount of food over several days to meet the animal's needs.
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Precautions
Cats are very tolerant animals. In the early stages of feline plague, it may not be easy to detect, and it may manifest as mental illness. Well, symptoms such as sleeping too long, loss of appetite, and drooling will become more obvious in the middle period, and in severe cases, there will be a refusal to eat. As an owner, you should carefully observe the cat's condition and measure its temperature as soon as possible if any abnormalities are found. Early detection is more conducive to treatment and recovery.
What you need to pay attention to when treating cat plague:
1. Be sure to keep warm.
2. If there are other cats at home, please isolate the sick cat and pay attention to environmental sanitation and disinfection.
3. Feline distemper hyperimmune serum is very important. It is actually an antibody to the feline distemper virus. In treatment, it is the only one that specifically targets the virus. But be careful not to inject for more than three days in a row, as more may cause side effects. If there is no high-immune serum for local medical conditions, you can find a vaccinated adult healthy cat, draw the blood of the healthy cat, and use a separation method to extract the serum for the sick cat.
4. Fluid rehydration balance and prevention of acidosis
Infusion is the best treatment method. If you cannot give the cat infusion, you can feed the cat 10% glucose injection and physiological fluid at regular intervals. A mixture of salt water to help replenish energy and hydration. If you can buy liquid electrolysis multi-dimensional for pets, the effect will be better.
5. Use antibiotics to prevent secondary infections
Commonly used antibiotics include gentamicin, given twice a day and 20,000 units at a time.
A new antibiotic drug for animals is now called Pukansu. You can consult your doctor for specific dosage.
There are also traditional Chinese medicine Qingkailing injections, which also have good results.
6. Antiemetics
Metoclopramide injection is a good antiemetic drug and is very important during treatment. It can be injected or taken orally.
7. Regulate digestive function
During the treatment, a large amount of antibiotics are used, which leads to the disorder of the beneficial flora in the cat’s intestinal digestive tract. It is necessary to take large doses of drugs or health products that regulate the health of intestinal flora; such as lactase, Mommy's Love, probiotics, etc. Such digestive medicines that regulate the intestinal tract should be taken separately from antibiotics at least half an hour apart.
8. Other drugs, such as dexamethasone and VC, are drugs that help metabolism and can be added according to the situation.
9. Pay attention to the base protein in the diet during the recovery period (don’t feed milk, eggs, chicken liver, etc. temporarily), and give cats semi-liquid food that is easy to digest. You can buy a nutritional paste for your cat to provide more comprehensive nutrition. Or you can consider purchasing Sears' prescription AD (Asthenia/Acute Disease) Cat Can, which contains minced meat soup that can be fed through a syringe to cats recovering from illness.
The last thing to note is that in the later stages of cat plague, there may be symptoms of blood in the stool. The cat should be injected with a hemostatic injection to prevent it, or take Yunnan Baiyao orally