If your cat is not eating, he/she needs to be syringe fed to protect the liver. Please see the Assisted Feeding tab.

• 🔻 Lack of nutrition leads to hepatic lipidosis which will kill your cat before FIP does.
• 🔻 Adult cats need 200 calories a day. Kittens need 250 a day.

DO NOT HAVE BELLY FLUID DRAINED without following the below:

• 🔻 Draining all 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.

🟢 CHEST FLUID can ABSOLUTELY and must be drained if kitty's breathing is labored. This fluid can be drained completely.

Your cat may need to be hospitalized for supportive care such as blood transfusions, subcutaneous fluids, or oxygen. 🚑

⌚ If your kitty isn't stable or begins to decline, you can send email to us. We may recommend that you double dose at the beginning (every 12 hours). Please check in with us every day until stable.

• Please purchase a baby scale. Weigh your kitty in kilograms.
• UNDER-DOSING increases the risk of relapse and resistance.
• ➡️ Dose calculator: Click Here (Injections/Suspension only).
• 🍗 Fasting is recommended for oral meds: No food 1 hour before, no big meal for 1 hour after.

DON'T MISS a dose. Dosing should be at about the same time every day. Start treatment as soon as possible.

⬆️ PLAN AHEAD on ordering GS so that you don't run out.

• Cerenia for nausea and mirtazapine for appetite stimulant.
• Prednisolone (steroid) can help stability at start. Usually weaned after a week.