Cats can not metabolize properly many medications and vitamins. As a result, after their administration, they may develop symptoms of poisoning. The most common medications that we have in house of over-the-counter and own use, but that for a cat are deadly are:
1. Paracetamol or acetaminophen It is an anti-inflammatory and pain used in human medicine. Just 1 compressed can be fatal to an adult cat.This drug in cats harms the liver and causes depression, rapid breathing, mucous membranes become blue (cyanotic), produces an excessive salivation, chocolate-colored urine and may cause death. It can be found with various names such as: TYLENOL, PANADOL, PERCOCET, ETC.
2. Acetyl salicylic acid "The famous"Aspirin”, like everyone we mostly know, It is one of the analgesics and fever-reducing commonly used in human. Without however, for domestic cats is a deadly weapon. First encourages a rapid breathing and then it depresses, produces vomiting (sometimes with blood), depression, low temperature, Anorexia, urine with blood due to kidney injury that produces. In a human being, 1 Tablet of aspirin is of 3 a. 4 hours to be eliminated from the body, in the CATS, 1 Tablet of aspirin is 72 hours to be deleted, i.e. hard 3 days. It is therefore, acetylsalicylic acid in cats, only in few doses compared to dogs, IT CAN BE FATAL! It is life-threatening.
3. Other anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) NSAIDs are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, they are used in human medicine and some also in veterinary medicine but in doses that are suitable for our pets. The main include ibuprofen, Naproxen and ketoprofen. Signs of poisoning in animals, They vary with the dose, the number of doses, the age, the presence of concurrent drugs, medical conditions and many other factors. The most common signs include vomiting, depression, lack of appetite, diarrhea and incoordinados movements. Overdose can cause gastrointestinal bleeding in the first 2 a. 6 hours and with a maximum point to the 12 hours more ulceration. Clinical signs in these cases include prolonged vomiting, they stop eating, depression of the nervous system, vomiting blood and bloody stools (mane). His administration without a veterinary prescription is dangerous.
4. The vitamin to Vitamin A is present in various vitamin complexes and food sources. Supplied in proper doses is not harmful, but its consumption in excess can lead us to a progressive poisoning box, especially in kittens who are fed food home where the only source of protein is the liver, which is rich in this vitamin. Its excess in the diet, either plug-ins or the same diet, produces sleepiness, low appetite, sitting on the rear train with arms elevated, or lying down but holding your weight on limbs, stiffness of the neck and/or joints shown also, constipation and weight loss. When it is diagnosed on time, It can be corrected by modifying the diet or by modifying the excess of the vitamin source, without having any side effect.
5. Vitamin D It is a nutrient that will find it in vitamin complexes, and like the previous, administered at appropriate doses, does not cause any effect toxic. Its toxicity is currently related to some rodenticides, It is therefore associated with its composition. Its excess produces vomiting and diarrhoea, depression, low appetite, thirst excessive (polydipsia), This also increases the frequency of the urine (polyuria); all this due to kidney damage and bleeding of the digestive and respiratory apparatus.