How to treat feline calicivirus

Sep 07,2024
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Treatment measures for feline calicivirus:

1. Immediately isolate the sick cat in the hospital for hospitalization, and use disinfectants to disinfect the floor, cages, utensils, etc. every day .

2. Anti-virus: use ribavirin, thymosin, etc.

3. Clean the mouth every day: Open the mouth of the sick cat, rinse the mouth with 0.1% potassium permanganate, apply cod liver oil or spray Guilin watermelon cream on the ulcer surface.

4. Prevent secondary infection: use ceftriaxone sodium infusion treatment.

5. Vitamin supplement: use vitamin B complex, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin C, etc.

6. For those with more serious illness and poor mental appetite, supportive therapy is adopted, including intravenous infusion of 5% glucose saline, 10% glucose, ATP, coenzyme A, etc.

Prevention of feline calicivirus:

1. Cushions, bedding, and cages used by cats at home should be changed frequently, disinfected, and taken out when the weather is fine. Go to the sun;

2. Regularly vaccinate cats against panleukopenia, feline viral bronchitis, and feline calicivirus triple vaccine every year to reduce the risk of cat disease;

3. If a cat is found to be sick at home, it should be kept separately from other pets immediately and sent to a pet hospital for medical treatment in time;

4. Under natural conditions, feline calicivirus is only susceptible to felines. Infection, often occurs in cats aged 6-84 days. The main sources of infection of this disease are sick cats and virus-carrying cats. The former can discharge a large amount of virus with secretions and excretions in the acute phase, contaminating utensils, floors and objects, and can also be directly transmitted to cats. The latter is generally transformed from acute-stage cases. Although the clinical symptoms disappear, it can detoxify for a long time and is the most important and dangerous source of infection.

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