Cat Ate Cold Medicine

To treat a cat with a cold make sure it has plenty of access to fresh water so it doesn t get dehydrated.

Cat ate cold medicine.

Unfortunately you can t just give your pet some cold medicine and hope for the best. Call pet poison helpline if your pet ingested these meds. Pain relievers acetaminophen aspirin ibuprofen. But some symptoms can show up more gradually.

Cat colds typically last from one to four weeks depending on how quickly they re diagnosed and treated. 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. Cold and flu medicines like acetaminophen ibuprofen and naproxen toxic to dogs and cats. Your cats might have that instead of a cold or allergies or retinitis.

Often cats will show these signs right away. 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. 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. 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.

Take samples of vomit stool and the poison your cat ate to the vet with your cat. 855 764 7661 call now. 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. Human medications are usually toxic to cats and can make them worse instead of better.

Pets who eat these substances display a variety of symptoms including discolored gums swollen face or paws seizures racing heart and more some. If your pet eats cold or flu medication. They gave my cats azithromycin for 3 weeks and boom systems gone. 24 7 animal poison control center.