It is not recommended to use diuretics for cats with abdominal transmission, because the cat’s urine is produced from the kidneys, then temporarily stored in the bladder, and finally excreted through the ureters. The use of diuretics only reduces the amount of urine in the bladder and does not help eliminate ascites.

Main functions of diuretics:

Used to treat acute and chronic heart failure, acute renal failure, etc. Cats cannot expel ascites when taking diuretics. Ascites in cats is fluid in the abdominal cavity. The abdominal cavity is a closed space. Therefore, except for artificial extraction, ascites will not be excreted from the body on its own, nor will it be excreted with urine. If a cat has abdominal fluid when it suffers from infectious peritonitis, it may cause symptoms of dehydration due to loss of mental appetite during the illness, so it is not recommended to be used on cats.

Symptoms of feline infectious peritonitis:

1. Ascites and pleural effusion: Not all cats with feline infectious peritonitis will have this symptom, only wet Feline abdominal distension has obvious characteristics of abdominal distension, in which ascites will increase the abdominal girth and pleural effusion will cause breathing difficulties.

2. Fever: Cats with cat-to-abdominal contagion will develop fever. At first, there is only an intermittent increase in body temperature, and then it gradually evolves into a high fever that continues unabated. Symptoms of cat-to-cat abdominal contagion include worsening of energy and appetite, Fluid accumulation, jaundice, eye inflammation and organ lesions, etc.

3. Poor mental state: After suffering from abdominal transmission, the cat's condition begins to gradually deteriorate, with obvious symptoms of lethargy and anorexia.

4. Jaundice: Cat abdominal transmission will cause damage to the cat’s liver, which is manifested in the presence of jaundice lesions in many locations in the body.

5. Granuloma: Clinically, dry cats will have granulomas in abdominal organs such as the liver, showing hard masses in the liver.

6. Eye symptoms and neurological symptoms: Abdominal transmission can cause ocular reactions such as uveitis and neurological symptoms such as paralysis of the hind limbs.