Question

A woman gives her cat that weighs 10 pounds, ½ of a baby aspirin with the dosage of 81 mg/kg for 5 days. She soon finds out that aspirin becomes toxic to cats at 80 mg/kg if given every day for 10 days. Should her cat be rushed to the vet as medical emergency?

Answer 1

10 pounds = 4.5 kg.

So, 81mg/kg and cat is 4.5 kg. Total drug given everyday is 81*4.5 = 364.5kg and for 5 days the total amount will be 1822.5mg of aspirin.

Aspirin becomes toxic at 80mg/kg if given everyday for 10 days. So, for this cat 80*4.5=360mg for each day and for 10 days it will be 3600mg of aspirin. So, if the amount exceeds than 3600 mg then only cat should be rushed to the vet but it is not the case because cat is getting total dose of 1822.5mg. So, cat should not be rushed to the vet.