u/AltruisticHomework39

Hi all,

I have a sick cat with FIP and am tying to get him to eat more calories. I saw that Vetoquinol Nutri-Cal was highly recommended and had good reviews. However, neither he nor my perfectly healthy and food-motivated cat would eat it. It says on the directions to put a small amount in the cats mouth and they'll get accustomed to the flavor. When I did this with my healthy cat who eats anything, he was put off by it and did not want to lick any more afterwards. I also tried mixing it with water and give as a slurry, no luck.

Anyone have a different experience? Like a cat who instantly wanted to lick it, or after putting some in their mouth they went for more? Maybe folks mixed it with their food or something to start?

I'm also wondering what alternative high-calorie supplements folks have tried. I just bought
Tiki Cat Baby Thrive so that may work better.

Thank you!

Hi all, I started treating my cat for wet FIP yesterday and have been reading a lot to understand the research on medications and dosages. I'm also in contact with a lovely admin(s) at FIP Global Cats who are literal life-savers. I wanted to share my understanding from internet research today to see if I'm looking at the right info/studies and see if redditors with more experience in this can point to other studies that show different conclusions to help educate me and others.

The below numbers are for wet FIP specifically, but the linked studies show dosages for other FIP types from the same authors.

Tl;dr:

1. For injections for wet FIP, 10-12 mg/kg/day helps prevent relapses more than lower doses.
2. Oral meds have better outcomes than injections. For oral meds for wet FIP, doing 10-14 days of a neuro dose (20 mg/kg/day) before transitioning to a non-neuro dose (10-15 mg/kg/day) helps clear the brain & prevent relapses.

Research for #1 and #2 above:

1. This reddit thread mentions a 2023 study (but it is not linked) and the reply includes a linked 2021 Australian study which discuss how 10-12 mg/kg daily for injections was more effective than lower doses at preventing relapses.

2. Dr Diane Addie in UK recommends oral medication over injections, as her findings are that it lowers the chances of relapse by better targeting the virus in the intestines. (video, website)

This is validated by the CZ/SK data and aligns with UK recommendations (both linked in this thread).

In Dr Addie's top 10 suggestions for preventing relapses, #5 is to do a "double dose" of oral meds for non-neuro cases for 10-14 days to clear the brain of any virus. (pdf). She normally considers a non-neuro dose to be 10mg/kg/day, and suggests in the pdf above to do 20 mg/kg/day for all cats for 10-14 days to clear the brain of virus.

Questions I had for others:

• These seem like higher general doses than historically recommended. Are folks aware of risks or counter-arguments to them?
• I was curious if anyone knew of the studies behind today's standard recommendation of 15 mg/kg/day for non-neuro cats. I wanted to compare to Dr Addie's 10 mg/kg.