Anyone know anything about this food, or use it before?
I posted a few weeks ago about Jinx, who was on C/D but he was vomiting up a storm so I switched his food. And it seemed to help at first but then he went right back to his old vomiting self.
So I brought him to work with me yesterday and we ran up a full bloodwork panel - CBC, chemistry profile, and T4. Just to cover our bases. All his values came back smack dab in the middle of normal. Which is great news, but doesn't leave us with much to work with!
At this point we are diagnosing him with IBD. I wanted to try starting him on a raw diet but they were talking up this prescription diet and I didn't really feel like I could turn it down. It is Royal Canin Hypoallergenic HP (hydrolyzed protein). It looks absolutely disgusting to me and it's really freaking expensive, but I suppose we'll have to give it a whirl. The reason we went with this food is because it also has the urinary health properties that are supposed to be in their S/O diet.
We're also doing a urinarlysis on him tomorrow... not really sure why, he's not having problems and he had one in November that was clean... vet's preference I guess. And then in 3 weeks we'll revisit the vomiting/food situation and see if any improvement has been made. Prednisone would be the next option but I'd rather try raw before doing that...
Anyway. Any input on hydrolyzed protein diets, or what does everyone on here do with their IBD kitties?
I posted a few weeks ago about Jinx, who was on C/D but he was vomiting up a storm so I switched his food. And it seemed to help at first but then he went right back to his old vomiting self.
So I brought him to work with me yesterday and we ran up a full bloodwork panel - CBC, chemistry profile, and T4. Just to cover our bases. All his values came back smack dab in the middle of normal. Which is great news, but doesn't leave us with much to work with!
At this point we are diagnosing him with IBD. I wanted to try starting him on a raw diet but they were talking up this prescription diet and I didn't really feel like I could turn it down. It is Royal Canin Hypoallergenic HP (hydrolyzed protein). It looks absolutely disgusting to me and it's really freaking expensive, but I suppose we'll have to give it a whirl. The reason we went with this food is because it also has the urinary health properties that are supposed to be in their S/O diet.
We're also doing a urinarlysis on him tomorrow... not really sure why, he's not having problems and he had one in November that was clean... vet's preference I guess. And then in 3 weeks we'll revisit the vomiting/food situation and see if any improvement has been made. Prednisone would be the next option but I'd rather try raw before doing that...
Anyway. Any input on hydrolyzed protein diets, or what does everyone on here do with their IBD kitties?