Famotidine For Cats. Causes of acute gastritis include the ingestion of spoiled or raw food non-food items such as garbage foreign objects plants toxins eating inappropriate foodstuffs such as table scraps or leftovers or being fed. Medications to treat or prevent stomach ulcers eg ranitidine famotidine omeprazole sucralfate Potassium supplements.
Famotidine did not produce overt effects at high oral doses in mice rats cats and dogs but induced significant anorexia and growth depression in rabbits starting with 200 mgkgday orally. Palladia is currently licensed by the FDA for treatment of canine mast cell tumors MCT. Famotidine is used to treat ulcers of the stomach and intestines and to prevent intestinal ulcers from coming back after they have healed.
Additionally gastric acid production can be decreased with an H2 antagonist such as famotidine or the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole.
Benefit of Palladia in cats with cancer. Acepromazine may color the urine pink. Chronic kidney disease CKD is the name now used to refer to cats with kidney failure or chronic kidney failure. Famotidine is known as an H2 blocker.