Cat Ate Cold Medicine

Your cats might have that instead of a cold or allergies or retinitis.

Cat ate cold medicine.

855 764 7661 call now. You should also encourage your cat to eat by warming up its food in the microwave or adding treats to its food to make it taste better. You can soak its usual dry feed with chicken broth to soften the feed and give it much more flavor and making it easier for our cat to eat it. Pain relievers acetaminophen aspirin ibuprofen.

Try asking your vet to do a blood test for bartonella. 24 7 animal poison control center. Unfortunately you can t just give your pet some cold medicine and hope for the best. Cold and flu medicines like acetaminophen ibuprofen and naproxen toxic to dogs and cats.

Signs to watch for include. If your pet eats cold or flu medication. Due to the cold it will struggle to notice smells and flavors so give it hot food that has a strong smell or offer it food that even if cold will have a strong smell like canned tuna. According to the pet poison hotline website close to 50 of the calls they receive regarding toxic ingestions in pets involve human medications top 10 human medications poisonous to pets this may occur when a cat or kitten scarfs up a dropped pill gets into the medicine cabinet and helps herself or is actually given a human medication by a well meaning owner.

Call pet poison helpline if your pet ingested these meds. To treat a cat with a cold make sure it has plenty of access to fresh water so it doesn t get dehydrated. Take samples of vomit stool and the poison your cat ate to the vet with your cat. But some symptoms can show up more gradually.

When your cat is sneezing a lot and suffering from a runny nose you can t give her a spoonful of cold medicine and send her to bed like you d do for a human. Human medications are usually toxic to cats and can make them worse instead of better. Cat colds typically last from one to four weeks depending on how quickly they re diagnosed and treated. They gave my cats azithromycin for 3 weeks and boom systems gone.