How Droncit Works

• Tapeworm segment
  
  When your cat ingests Droncit, the medication is metabolized within his liver where it's excreted in the digestive juice bile. When the bile is released into kitty's digestive tract and hits the tapeworms, their natural protection against being digested is gone. Your cat may pass traces of tapeworms in his stool following treatment, but, in most instances they are completely digested.
  
  

Droncit Dosages

• The right Droncit dosage for your cat depends on her weight. Bayer recommends the following dosages: Kittens and cats weighing less than 4 lbs, 1/2 tablet; cats weighing from 5 to 11 lbs, 1 tablet; and cats over 11 lbs, 1-1/2 tablets. Dosages of Droncit Injectable are 0.2mL for kittens and cats under 5 lbs; 0.4 mL for cats from 5 to 11 lbs: and 0.6mL for cats over 11 lbs. Kittens younger than six weeks shouldn't get Droncit.
  
  

Adminstering Droncit

• Droncit tablets will work on cats with either full or empty stomachs, so your cat doesn't need to fast before receiving them. Give them either by mouth or by crumbling them into her food.
  
  

Safety of Droncit

• Bayer says that when given in amounts five times greater than the recommended dosage every two weeks, Droncit tablets were not toxic even in kittens only 5-1/2 weeks old. Vomiting, diarrhea, excessive salivation and depression, however, were side effects of the higher doses.
  A field trial of Droncit tablets administered to 135 cats at the recommended dosage produced vomiting in one cat and excessive salivation in another, for a negative side-effect rate of 1.5 percent.
  Cats injected with between 10 and 20 times the recommended dose of Droncit Injectable experienced depression, trembling and vomiting. Five of the eight cats injected subcutaneously died, as did all eight cats that received intramuscular injections of Droncit more than 20 times higher than the recommended dose.
  Eight of 85 cats in a Droncit Injectable field trial developed vomiting, excessive salivation, diarrhea, weakness, burns at the site of the injections and/or sleepiness when receiving the recommended dosage, for a negative side-effect rate of 9.8 percent. Bayer termed these side effects mild and of brief duration. They also mention reports of injection site swelling and irritation in cats getting subcutaneous injections.
  
  

Warning

• Bayer advises that while one treatment of Droncit is usually sufficient, cats exposed to fleas may be re-infested with Dipylidium caninum tapeworms. They'll require retreating unless the flea problem is eliminated.