THERAPEUTIC NUTRITION

Nutritional interventions tailored to the individual cat with CKD can play a key role in slowing disease progression, reducing signs of uremia, addressing homeostatic changes resulting from CKD, and improving quality of life as well as life span.

Diet plays an important role in the diagnosis and management of cats with food-responsive enteropathy.

Diet modification can play either a central or an adjunct role in a multimodal approach to managing cats with chronic enteropathy.

Short-term diet modification is an important part of managing acute gastroenteropathy in cats.

Nutritional interventions are an important part of the management of cats with chronic gastroenteropathy.

Water, dietary fiber and diet digestibility are important to the nutritional management of cats with constipation, obstipation and megacolon.

Nutritional management is a cornerstone of health care for cats with chronic kidney disease.

Nutrition plays an important role in reducing the risk of recurrence of calcium oxalate urolithiasis in cats.

Nutrition plays an important role in managing struvite urolithiasis and reducing the risk of recurrence in cats.