Ornamental plants & flowers

ORNAMENTAL PLANTS AND FLOWERS

What to do?

  • Ingesting any part of the plant may cause signs and should be aggressively treated
  • Ingestion causes vomiting and depression within two to four hours
  • Polyuria, polydipsia, and more severe depression occurs after a day
  • Renal blood profile like Creatinine, BUN and phosphorus are elevated
  • Urinalysis may show cellular casts beginning about 18 hours after exposure.
  • Induce emesis and activated charcoal.
  • For 2 days put the cat on diuretics
  • Immediate treatment gives good prognosis if  oliguria or anuria sets then poor prognosis is given.
Last modified: Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 7:21 AM