Meet Dolly
Age: Unknown/ approx. 2 years old
Breed: Domestic Short Hair
Diagnosis: Effusive (Wet) FIP
Her first symptoms were a swollen abdomen and loss of appetite.Dolly was diagnosed with Wet FIP following extensive diagnostic testing and a 2 night stay at the hospital.
She was also given fluids, steroids, and anti-nausea meds while there. She was so poorly that I don’t think anyone expected her to ever come home.
After a lot of internet research, we discovered a treatment had recently been made legal in the UK.
Dolly’s vet contacted Bova to get all the information about treatment, and we decided to go ahead with the treatment. We had to give her a chance. Dolly was the first cat treated for FIP at our vet practice, so her vet learned all about the treatment through Bova webinars.
Her abdominal fluid had pretty much gone within 2 weeks of treatment, and her appetite started to improve quickly too.
She was on the initial treatment for 2 weeks before moving on to the tablets. She had 3 days of the initial treatment via IV, then the rest by injection. Dolly hates the vets and won’t let them do anything to her, so unfortunately, she had to have sedation every day for her treatment to be administered.
Despite the tablets needing to be taken without food ideally, the only way I could get Dolly to eat the tablets was if I hid them in a very small amount of fish-flavored food. It was the only thing that would work.
Her first symptoms were a swollen abdomen and loss of appetite.
Dolly was diagnosed with Wet FIP following extensive diagnostic testing and a 2 night stay at the hospital.
She was also given fluids, steroids and anti nausea meds whilst there. She was so poorly I don’t think anyone expected her to ever come home.
After a lot of internet research we discovered a treatment had recently been made legal in the UK.
Dolly’s vet contacted Bova to get all the information about treatment and we decided to ahead with the treatment, we had to give her a chance. Dolly was the first cat treated for FIP at our vet practice so her vet learned all about the treatment through Bova webinars.
Her abdominal fluid had pretty much gone within 2 weeks of treatment and her appetite started to improve quickly too.
She was on remdesivir for 2 weeks before moving on to the GS tablets. She had 3 days of remdesivir via IV then the rest injection. Dolly hates the vets and won’t let them do anything to her so unfortunately she had to have sedation everyday for her remdesivir to be administered.
Despite the tablets needing to be taken without food ideally, the only way I could get Dolly to eat the tablets was if I hid them in a very small amount of fish flavoured food, it was the only thing that would work.
