Chronic Kidney Disease
This common and incurable disease can often be slowed down and most cats can live many years after their diagnosis. We utilize special low protein diets (if your cat will eat them) and we carry several of them to increase the likelihood that you can find one that your cat will eat. Quarterly monitoring allows us to find complicating factors such as elevated phosphorus levels (causes nausea) and low potassium levels (causes weakness and life-threatening heart problems) before you see any symptoms. When it is appropriate, we can teach you to give subcutaneous fluids.
To learn more about kidney disease visit http://www.felinecrf.com/.
To see a demonstration of how subcutaneous fluids can be given, visit http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/ClientED/cat_fluids.asp.
