Plants and flowers are something most of us place in our homes to add beauty. However, it’s essential to know some of these are particularly poisonous for cats if you’re a cat owner. Cats love to chew on these plants and flowers out of curiosity or due to boredom. However, some plants can cause life-threatening poisoning in cats, and there are some effective remedies at home to treat plant toxicity in cats.

Home care and preventive techniques go a long way in ensuring the safety of your cat. While prevention is your best bet, there are some DIY techniques you can adopt to treat plant toxicity in cats.

Activated charcoal powder
This is a highly beneficial product to ensure the well-being of your cat poisoned by a toxic plant. While it can address poisoning from any plant, it’s a proven remedy to effectively eliminate lily poisoning. It can remove toxins completely from your cat’s kidneys and body and is absolutely tasteless. Your cat won’t even notice the activated charcoal powder in its food. It can absorb large amounts of gases, heavy metals, chemicals, and other poisons from your cat’s body to ensure maximum safety.

Fluid therapy
This is the act of giving Subcutaneous (SQ) fluid administration directly into the part under your cat’s skin. It’s a proven technique that the body and blood can absorb completely to remove the toxins safely. It also provides additional fluids to your cat that prevents dehydration and helps eliminate poison through urination. Fluid therapy helps cleanse the system and supports immune health.

Pump the stomach
Gastric lavage is a safe and sure technique to reduce plant poisoning effects if ingested within two hours. By removing the maximum amount of poison as possible, you can significantly reduce additional absorption. You can bathe your cat in lukewarm water and administer stomach pumping with gentle to moderate pressure to help remove the poison.

Induce vomiting
While this is another effective home remedy to eliminate plant poison from your cat, precautions should be taken. If your cat is already showing signs of poisoning, it’s too late to do this. However, it’s an effective method to do if your cat has ingested poison within two hours. But vomiting should be induced only to alert cats and only if your vet recommends it. Additionally, you can also give an enema to eliminate poison via feces.

Speed elimination
This is yet another form of fluid therapy where intravenous fluids are administered to hasten and eliminate the body’s poison. It can be used to encourage accelerated excretion by stimulating the kidneys and leaving hardly any time for absorption.

Reducing continued toxin damage
You can use antidotes that help eliminate some poisons caused by plants, but these are effective only in early treatment. Make sure the diagnosis and treatment are not delayed to ensure maximum advantage from these antidotes. While some antidotes are expensive, they help you save a significant amount on treatments when the poison has spread to the body.