Does anyone know where I can find a table summary w/ the phosphorus level on all Friskies canned food flavors?Does anyone know where I can find a table/ summary with the phosphorus level on all Friskies canned food flavors? I checked Purina's website and they don't seem to have it. My cat (Sparky) was diagnosed with kidney disease last week. I've been trying to get him to eat the Royal Canin diet with no success. My 16 year old companion wants his regular canned food. Also, oddly enough, he now has interest in Friskies Dental Diet (dry food) - go figure... Is dry food okay for a cat with his condition?
Many thanks in advance to all cat lovers that will reply. It is so overwhelming to deal with all the newness of the situation and how helpless we feel. I really want to help Sparky.
Posted by Ken S
food charts with phosphorous levels in the middle Please read and research the links and info I am giving you. Fiskeis won't do it regardless of levels. You need real cat food
Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure
If your cat is not in final stages, this is not want you want to do. You do not want to put your cat on the
Vets low protein diet. There are simply so many better options out there than to hand the poor cat a low amount of poor quality protein - which often results in a poor appetite and muscle wasting since the body is now robbing its own muscle mass to feed itself a decent quality and amount of protein.
. There are new thoughts on this and the thinking is it is not the amount of protein but the quality of protein that matters.
The Merck veterinary manual [www.merckvetmanual.com] says that cats need "4 g of protein of high biologic value per kg body wt/day". That's about 7 calories from protein per pound body weight per day. If a cat isn't a good eater and consumes, say, 20 calories per pound per day, then 7/20 = 35% of calories can safely be from protein. It must be high quality protein, which means meat, fish, milk, and eggs, and not grain or soy.
I am under the assumption that you have been feeding mostly dry foods. Many use a vegetable based protein instead of animal and that is part of the problem.. Your cat needs protein as it is a carnivore and cutting down on it will lead to other health issues and may cause faster degeneration.
You want to cut down on phosphorous (no fish allowed now)
The best way to do this is with a raw diet which you can make yourself or buy. (Making yourself is better) link provided at the bottom
If you are unwilling to do that then something like the non fish flavors of Wellness or Merrick with NO grains are good alternatives. Wysong is also a good canned choice. This list gives a breakdown. Remember you want low phosphorous
http://www.geocities.com/jmpeerson/CanFoodOld.html
You should be giving sub-Q fluids as needed.
You also will want to look into phosphorous binders. Something like aluminum hydroxide
Ask your vet or look into calcitrol
You may want to talk to the vet about having injectable Pepcid AC on hand or you can buy it in pill form (ac not plain pepcid) and give 1/4 tab for stomach upset which happens a lot in crf cats due to acid in the stomach.
I hope this stuff helps, here are many links for you
Making cat food
http://www.catinfo.org/makingcatfood.htm
other links. Read, read, read!!!!
http://www.felineoutreach.org/EducationDetail.asp?cat=KidneyDisease
http://www.marvistavet.com/html/kidney_failure_where_to_begin.html
http://www.felinecrf.org/
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/FelineCRF/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=3
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Feline-Phosphorus-Management/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=5
About that vets diet. This report is for dogs but applies to cats
http://mousabilities.com/nutrition/crf/bovee_protein_RD.pdf
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Opera/21...
Posted by LP609
Here's a table I found of the phosphorous levels in dry cat foods:
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/dry.htm
It looks a tiny bit outdated (2005), but it may serve as a useful guideline. There's also links to canned food.
Getting plenty of water is important for cats with kidney disease. You might consider feeding a bit of canned food a day and mixing extra water into it.
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