Warning: long post. TL;DR? We can drop the antiviral treatment duration for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) to 42 days in many situations.
In veterinary medicine, a lot of our recommended durations for treatment for different diseases have little scientific backing. We “inherited” a lot of these treatment regimens from the days when the drugs
The UK’s FIP Advice Team has released new antiviral drug treatment guidelines for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).
A major change is introduction of twice daily dosing of oral GS-441524, based on the observation that inter-cat variations in drug absorption and metabolism might account for some of the treatment failures that are seen with once daily
Now that Canadian veterinarians can legally import antiviral drugs for treatment of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), there’s no (good) reason for people in Canada to be sourcing these drugs on the black market. However, there are still many countries (e.g. the US) where it’s still tough or impossible to get these drugs legally, so
