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**'''Ethanol:''' useful in both dogs and cats <ref name="multiples">'''The 5-Minute Veterinary Consult, Canine and Feline''' (Second Edition),''Lippencott, Williams and Wilkins'' </ref>. Recommended intravenous dose for cats is 5ml of 20% ethanol solution per kg body weight every 6 hours for the first 30 hours and then every 8 hours for the next 32 hours <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''',(Second Edition), p286-7 </ref> .

**'''Ethanol:''' useful in both dogs and cats <ref name="multiples">'''The 5-Minute Veterinary Consult, Canine and Feline''' (Second Edition),''Lippencott, Williams and Wilkins'' </ref>. Recommended intravenous dose for cats is 5ml of 20% ethanol solution per kg body weight every 6 hours for the first 30 hours and then every 8 hours for the next 32 hours <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''',(Second Edition), p286-7 </ref> .

**'''4-methylpyrazole''': ''Fomepizole'' Initially thought to be effective in dogs only but if given at a higher dose can be effective in cats also <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''', (Second Edition), p286-7 </ref>. Its advantage over ethanol is that it has less side effects and is the treatment of choice in dogs <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''',(Second Edition), p286-7 </ref> . Like ethanol its mode of action is to inhibit ADH <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''', (Second Edition), p286-7 </ref> in the liver. Recommended doses are 20mg per kg of a 50mg/ml solution (intravenous) followed by 15mg per kg (intravenous) 12 hours and 24 hours later and a final dose of 5mg per kg 36 hours later <ref name="multiples">'''The 5-Minute Veterinary Consult, Canine and Feline''' (Second Edition),''Lippencott, Williams and Wilkins'' </ref>.

**'''4-methylpyrazole''': ''Fomepizole'' Initially thought to be effective in dogs only but if given at a higher dose can be effective in cats also <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''', (Second Edition), p286-7 </ref>. Its advantage over ethanol is that it has less side effects and is the treatment of choice in dogs <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''',(Second Edition), p286-7 </ref> . Like ethanol its mode of action is to inhibit ADH <ref name="multiples"> '''BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency Care''', (Second Edition), p286-7 </ref> in the liver. Recommended doses for dogs are 20mg per kg of a 50mg/ml solution (intravenous) followed by 15mg per kg (intravenous) 12 hours and 24 hours later and a final dose of 5mg per kg 36 hours later <ref name="multiples">'''The 5-Minute Veterinary Consult, Canine and Feline''' (Second Edition),''Lippencott, Williams and Wilkins'' </ref>. Cats require a dose of 125mg per kg body weight to be administered intravenously every hour for three hours post ingestion, followed by a lower intravenous dose of 31.25mg per kg body weight at twelve hour intervals post-ingestion untill 36 hours have past.

*Managemenf of Metabolic Acidosis

*Managemenf of Metabolic Acidosis