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Tylanol or Acetaminophen
toxicity
DO NOT give any cat a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication without
consulting with your vet first. Acetaminophen is toxic to cats, aspirin is
extraordinarily easy to overdose in cats because the half-life of aspirin in a
cat is 72 hours (3 days!) and other non-steroidal medications do not appear to
have been studied much in cats, probably due to the problems with these two
common ones. For arthritis, we do sometimes use aspirin but it must be used
cautiously and it is important to know the patient's medical condition well
prior to its use.
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