Useful Websites
https://bova.co.uk/about/bova-uk-team/
https://endfip.com
A wealth of information and resources
https://www.rvc.ac.uk/clinical-connections/successful-feline-infectious-peritonitis-treatment-with-remdesivir
More success stories using the legal UK vet medication for FIP
Vetimmune’s Polyprenyl Immunostimulant™
Order form and links below for DEFRA imports for your Vet:
https://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/sis/default.aspx
Part 3 here is really relevant:
https://vetimmune.com/importance-of-immune-system-treatment-viral-diseases
Ineffective FIP tests and our preferred Glasgow ‘FIP Profile’
“Diagnosing FIP can be challenging, and some commercial tests propose an FCoV S-gene mutation RT-qPCR to aid in diagnosis. However, this study, co-authored by ABCD’s Regina Hofmann-Lehmann and Katrin Hartmann, found that it sometimes also detects S-gene mutations in healthy (non-FIP) cats.”
Read the paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/8/1671/htm
Time and time again, owners tell us of ineffective and incorrect tests being sent for.
They also report tests which are inconclusive and take too long to be returned (to the extent their cat has died waiting.)
Glasgow University’s “FIP Profile” testing is world leading and it can quickly and efficiently help to rule in or out FIP when combined with clinical presentation/reported symptoms.
The FIP Profile at Glasgow University needs to be known about by Vets, please tell yours.
We have access to lifesaving legal treatment for FIP in the UK now from UK Vets.
It is now the Veterinary testing and diagnosis workup that is placing obstacles in the cat’s path to receiving prompt, lifesaving treatment.
The Glasgow “FIP Profile” also means no cat needs to undergo extensive, invasive procedures in the Vet’s pursuit of a definitive FIP diagnosis. Many cats are far too ill for these procedures!
The UK Vet Expert FIP Advice team, in their ISFM Winter 2022 podcast, highlighted the desire for being as sure as possible on a FIP diagnosis but highlighted the need to move away from previous thinking (when no treatment was available and the option was put to sleep) with regards to reaching that 100% conclusion to confirm FIP as reason for death.
FIP is no longer a death sentence.Legal treatment exists.Testing does not need to be invasive and neverending.
Tell your Vet about the “FIP Profile” at Glasgow University. It costs £53.50 plus vat.
Glasgow University Vet Diagnostic Services “FIP Profile”: Under Infectious Diseases here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/vetdiagnostics/pricelist/
Antiviral Toxicity
This recent comparative study that looks at toxicity with all legal antivirals from Murphy and Cook, (at world leading research centre UC Davis) is extensive and thorough.
In a very brief summary:
1. Every legal tested human grade antiviral works for FIP.
2. They are all of siimilar levels in terms of potential toxicity to each other.
* Legal Molnupiravir showed no more toxicity than legal Remdesivir or legal GS-441524.
3. There is evidence that all legal tested compounds work in fairly similar ways.
4. It is also highlighted that there is a need to avoid a one size fits all approach to legally helping save cats from FIP – a huge departure from previous thinking!
An Optimized Bioassay for Screening Combined Anticoronaviral Compounds for Efficacy against Feline Infectious Peritonitis Virus with Pharmacokinetic Analyses of GS-441524, Remdesivir, and Molnupiravir in Cats
3 informative links to FIP infomation from Vet Lexicon:
https://www.vetlexicon.com/treat/felis/diseases/feline-infectious-peritonitis
https://www.vetlexicon.com/treat/felis/bug/feline-coronavirus-fip
https://www.vetlexicon.com/treat/felis/labtest/fip-fcov-tests