Treatment of FIP

Re: Treatment of FIP

Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:36:16 GMT

Mark Richards got it spot on

Wynne

Re: Treatment of FIP

Kate Richardson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:10:08 GMT

If you feel the owners would be open to it, Bristol Uni are doing studies currently into FIP and require post mortem samples, please message me if you want more details as special sampling kits and samples need to be obtained within an hour of death. I looked into this for my poor wee chap; I know it won't help him, but may help future cats with this horrible disease.

Re: Treatment of FIP

Martin Atkinson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:04:20 GMT

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[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]I have had good success with treating FIV with Virbagen Omega[/quote]

are we talking FIV or FIP?

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Whoops sorry, yes my mistake, I should learn to read better. However even if it doesn't work in FIP it does in FIV.

Re: Treatment of FIP

James Allsop — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:52:43 GMT

steroids and frusemide make them feel better for a bit, but in my experience only for a few days. I read about use of interferon - i think it was a study done in Japan, which was published shortly before I attended a CPD meeting on cat diseases. I asked the lecturer, Dr Addie (www.catvirus.com) about it, and she felt that the majority of the cats that got better didnt have symptoms that were reliable for a diagnosis of FIP

Re: Treatment of FIP

Kate Richardson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:46:55 GMT

One of my own cats has FIP, diagnosed before Christmas, and he has been on prednisolone since then and has been doing quite well, definitely feels better on it. I haven't used Interferon with him, as there is no evidence to suggest it is effective, so I wouldn't use it especially if funds are limited. Pred is cheap and cheerful and in some cases makes them feel better, so that's what I would go for.

Re: Treatment of FIP

Rob Loxley — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:37:03 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]I have had good success with treating FIV with Virbagen Omega[/quote]

are we talking FIV or FIP?

Re: Treatment of FIP

Mark Holmes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:27:08 GMT

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I think she means say it as it is & not try and keep the cat going when its hopeless - i.e. placating the owner?

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I was trying to establish that it was in fact hopeless. As it is famcicyclovir doesn't appear to be effective vs corona virus, Chloroquine is but does nasty things to cats which is unfortunate.

Re: Treatment of FIP

Martin Atkinson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:13:52 GMT

I have had good success with treating FIV with Virbagen Omega: cat with life threatening anaemia resurrected for 6 months first time, 3 months second, poor response third time. Pity they can't afford it but then I've equally seen cats which failed to respond.

Re: Treatment of FIP

Richard Fox — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:10:31 GMT

I think she means say it as it is & not try and keep the cat going when its hopeless - i.e. placating the owner?

Re: Treatment of FIP

Mark Holmes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:06:43 GMT

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Treat the cat-not the owner

Wynne

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Re: Treatment of FIP

Hannah Wynne Richards — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:51:34 GMT

Treat the cat-not the owner

Wynne

Re: Treatment of FIP

Richard Fox — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:19:47 GMT

I am afraid like above I know of no effective treatment for FIP - I don't even thing the interferon treatments have been particularly effective and certainly not in those with effusive forms?

"Studies investigating the benefit of feline interferon omega have now been performed. Ishida and colleagues (2004) recommended a treatment regime of 1 MU recombinant feline IFN-ω /kg subcutaneously every other day until remission, followed by weekly subcutaneous injections with the same dosage. Glucocorticoid was also administered as an intrathoracic injection of 1 mg/kg dexamethasone (in cats with compromising pleural effusion), followed by oral doses of 2 mg/kg prednisolone daily, tapering to 0.5 mg/kg every other day. Complete remission was reported in a third of the cats. However, FIP was not definitively diagnosed in these cats and there were no matched case controls. More recently, a study based on this protocol was performed as a double-blinded placebo-controlled trial in cats with a diagnosis of FIP confirmed by immunohistology of effusion or tissue biopsies (Ritz and others 2007). This study showed there was no statistically significant difference between the treatment and placebo group for any study variable apart from lymphocyte count (lymphocyte count was lower in the treatment group). Survival ranged from 3-200 days, with the median survival time 9 days for the treatment group and 8 days for the placebo group."

Re: Treatment of FIP

Dagmar Steele — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:55:25 GMT

If it is a confirmed FIP diagnosis the only treatment I know if is Pentobarbital.

Re: Treatment of FIP

Mark Holmes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:50:27 GMT

Maybe I'll give the synulox a go, did she have any suggestions as to what constitutes a good shot?

Re: Treatment of FIP

Clive Ansell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:37:40 GMT

Last one I had back in the autumn, did not really respond to prednisolone and frusemide and was PTS within a very short time. see previous thread somewhere.

According the breeder "it was caused the FeLV vacc" and "a good shot of Synulox usually sorts them out"