My 11 year old cat is in the very early stages of kidney failure. His BUN is 34 and his CREA is 2.8.
My cat has food allergies so he eats a raw diet - quail, pheasant, guinea hen and some canned salmon mixed in. I always add water to his food and he really doesn't actually drink hardly any water on his own.
I thought about putting him on Azodyl but the capsules are not that small and I am not really attracted to the idea of pilling him twice a day right now. At the moment he is displaying no symptoms of having an issue. I put him out for a dental and decided to send out a panel so this was discovered this way.
I work in a traditional veterinary clinic, I'm just curious if there is anything I can do holistically to help him out? If he could eat k/d even though it's a terrible food ingredient wise I would probably feed it because I have seen it bring kidney values back into the normal ranges but that is just not an option for him. I mostly just want to keep him feeling well for as long as I can. I am not sure how he would handle sub-q fluids and I watch kidney cats waste away daily, so I am not sure when he really gets ill what kind of a route we will take.
We will recheck his values in a couple of months to see where things are headed.
Thanks for any advice anyone had to offer!
My cat has food allergies so he eats a raw diet - quail, pheasant, guinea hen and some canned salmon mixed in. I always add water to his food and he really doesn't actually drink hardly any water on his own.
I thought about putting him on Azodyl but the capsules are not that small and I am not really attracted to the idea of pilling him twice a day right now. At the moment he is displaying no symptoms of having an issue. I put him out for a dental and decided to send out a panel so this was discovered this way.
I work in a traditional veterinary clinic, I'm just curious if there is anything I can do holistically to help him out? If he could eat k/d even though it's a terrible food ingredient wise I would probably feed it because I have seen it bring kidney values back into the normal ranges but that is just not an option for him. I mostly just want to keep him feeling well for as long as I can. I am not sure how he would handle sub-q fluids and I watch kidney cats waste away daily, so I am not sure when he really gets ill what kind of a route we will take.
We will recheck his values in a couple of months to see where things are headed.
Thanks for any advice anyone had to offer!
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