THERAPEUTIC NUTRITION

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

Jessica Quimby, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, explains the dangers of dehydration in cats with chronic kidney disease and provides strategies to help owners assess and address cat hydration status.

Targeted nutrition can help manage clinical signs and improve quality of life in pets with portosystemic shunts.

Diet plays a key role in the management of canine chronic hepatitis.

Diet plays a key role in the management of copper-associated hepatitis.

Prompt and intensive nutritional support is fundamental to the treatment of hepatic lipidosis in cats.

In addition to medical management, intensive nutritional support is essential for cats diagnosed with cholangitis.

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.