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Hi all,
First of all, what a great forum! I've learned so much reading through different threads, I'm pretty sure I now know more about the nutrition/health related things when feeding a raw diet than my vet (how sad but true in many cases, still...).
I'm humbly asking your advise as per the title: what can cause SDMA spike so much in literally 2 weeks?
To give you some background info; a few weeks ago, I noticed that my Beni (he just turned 5 years this month) one morning started going to the bathroom basically every few minutes. He was urinating a tiny amount (without blood) and that's it. Then he would often link himself after. No other symptoms: still eating, playing, no sounds, no signs of distress, changes in behaviour etc. As it was my first time ever of this kind of issue, after searching online, I gave him a small dose of apple cider vinegar in the afternoon. Almost immediately his often visits to the bathroom stopped and everything returned to normal. After 2-3 weeks I saw again he was going often to the bathroom, same symptoms as before. This time I called a vet and made an appointment in 2 days (since I was sure it was not a blockage). A day later (and a day before the visit), I noticed some blood in his pee. Still no other symptoms than often visits, peeing little and licking himself more often.
At the vet I asked for a full blood test top of the urine test. I also asked for culture & sensitivity test (I'm a huge fan of Dr Pierson's website catinfo.org) to makde sure if it's an infection and not inflammation. The results came negative but my vet insisted we put Beni on antibiotics for 2 weeks, "just in case" since tests can sometimes be wrong. I strongly opposed at the beginning but gave in under the pressure from the vet and my partner (they were both looking at me as if I was this "crazy hippie cat lady"). We repeated the tests after two weeks and my vet concluded Beni might have CKD. She based her diagnosis on SDMA results, creatinine levels and the fact that urine had 1.033 gravity while she said the min should be 1.035. I also told her that I've been feeding Beni mostly raw food (catinfo.org recipe) with some wet food as topping (Friskies) but 2-3 months before the first bathroom episode, I started giving my cats anti-dander Purina dry food once a day (I feed them 3 times) since my partner has mild cat allergy and wanted to try if it helps. I don't think she knows much about raw food but she did say that even after a short time, this could have contributed to some crystals in his bladder which caused the blood and inflammation.
My point is: knowing that raw food can cause SDMA and creatinie be higher and urine gravity more dilute, I don't think my cat had CKD. But I'm worried why his SDMA spiked so much in such a short time. I can't find any info on what it may relate to and whether it is something normal. For those two weeks in between the tests, I was only giving him his raw food and some wet food, with even more water than I usually add...I'm attaching blood test results as well.
Sorry for such a long post but I wanted ot give you a full picture, in case it's useful~~
First of all, what a great forum! I've learned so much reading through different threads, I'm pretty sure I now know more about the nutrition/health related things when feeding a raw diet than my vet (how sad but true in many cases, still...).
I'm humbly asking your advise as per the title: what can cause SDMA spike so much in literally 2 weeks?
To give you some background info; a few weeks ago, I noticed that my Beni (he just turned 5 years this month) one morning started going to the bathroom basically every few minutes. He was urinating a tiny amount (without blood) and that's it. Then he would often link himself after. No other symptoms: still eating, playing, no sounds, no signs of distress, changes in behaviour etc. As it was my first time ever of this kind of issue, after searching online, I gave him a small dose of apple cider vinegar in the afternoon. Almost immediately his often visits to the bathroom stopped and everything returned to normal. After 2-3 weeks I saw again he was going often to the bathroom, same symptoms as before. This time I called a vet and made an appointment in 2 days (since I was sure it was not a blockage). A day later (and a day before the visit), I noticed some blood in his pee. Still no other symptoms than often visits, peeing little and licking himself more often.
At the vet I asked for a full blood test top of the urine test. I also asked for culture & sensitivity test (I'm a huge fan of Dr Pierson's website catinfo.org) to makde sure if it's an infection and not inflammation. The results came negative but my vet insisted we put Beni on antibiotics for 2 weeks, "just in case" since tests can sometimes be wrong. I strongly opposed at the beginning but gave in under the pressure from the vet and my partner (they were both looking at me as if I was this "crazy hippie cat lady"). We repeated the tests after two weeks and my vet concluded Beni might have CKD. She based her diagnosis on SDMA results, creatinine levels and the fact that urine had 1.033 gravity while she said the min should be 1.035. I also told her that I've been feeding Beni mostly raw food (catinfo.org recipe) with some wet food as topping (Friskies) but 2-3 months before the first bathroom episode, I started giving my cats anti-dander Purina dry food once a day (I feed them 3 times) since my partner has mild cat allergy and wanted to try if it helps. I don't think she knows much about raw food but she did say that even after a short time, this could have contributed to some crystals in his bladder which caused the blood and inflammation.
My point is: knowing that raw food can cause SDMA and creatinie be higher and urine gravity more dilute, I don't think my cat had CKD. But I'm worried why his SDMA spiked so much in such a short time. I can't find any info on what it may relate to and whether it is something normal. For those two weeks in between the tests, I was only giving him his raw food and some wet food, with even more water than I usually add...I'm attaching blood test results as well.
Sorry for such a long post but I wanted ot give you a full picture, in case it's useful~~
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