Do The Symptoms Ever Go Away When You Cat Has Renal Failure?My Cat has just been diagnosted for havin Renal Failure. Thursday he was diagnosed and Friday he stayed to get fluid. I picked him up on Friday. His attitude is so much better he is acting like my cat but his head is still having low kind of. will he ever lift his neck when he walks?? will the symptoms ever go away?? or am i over reacting??
Posted by clovicat
If he is not lifting his head, his potassium level may be low. check with your vet, to see if this might be the case. If so, then you can get a potassium supplement to give him. Also, check and find out what type of long term therapy you should do. If the cat's kidney enzymes go down, usually the symptoms improve.
Good luck
Posted by ♥Pretty♥ ♥Kitty♥
My cat was found to be in renal failure last summer. He was pitiful some days. I started feeding him a good diet of Wellness wet food instead of the KD my vet gave him and he has done very well. He still has days when he needs to rest but overall he is playful and happy. The food is key. I didn't like the low protein content of KD so I opted to feed him a diet of better protein rather than less. I actually switched all my cats to the good food so everyone is doing very well around here.
Posted by Bob N
The symptoms of CRF (Chronic Renal Failure) can be reduced by the correct treatment but you need to face the fact that this is a chronic condition which cannot be cured.
With proper treatment, a cat whose CRF was caught relatively early can have some good time left.
Renal failure is the number one cause of deaths in cats. We have lost 5 cats to CRF over the past 5 years.
The vet can monitor the cat's condition and the levels of various substances in the cat's blood.
Some need to be increased and some need to be reduced. The numbers which give an indication of the cat's condition are the kidney numbers - BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) and creatinine.
Both of these substances increase as the kidneys become more and more impaired.
There is one thing you can do for your cat at home. You spoke of him getting fluids - I assume the vet was giving him fluids at the vet office.
You can do the same thing at home.
Additional fluids help reduce the workload of the kidneys.
The vet will give the fluids as an IV (Inter Venous). You can give the fluids subcutaneous (under the skin)
Do to this, you will need an IV bag of fluids (usually Lactated Ringers Solution - LRS), needles, and IV tubing.
All of these are prescription only and you'll need a prescription from your vet. You can probably buy these from the vet but you will pay up to as much as 9 times the cost as you would if you get a prescription and purchase them yourself.
Everything has to be done in a manner to not contaminate the fluid, needle, or tubing.
A short explanation of the procedure is this:
You take the stopper out of the IV bag and push the tip of the IV tubing set into the bag. Then you remove the protective cover from the other end of the IV tubing set and put a needle on that end of the tubing.
Now you immerse the IV bag in hot water until it is about body temperature. Do not let the end of the bag attached to the IV tubing or the needle get in the water.
Once the fluid is warmed up, you put the cat on your lap and pull up the skin at their shoulders and insert the needle under the skin, not vertically - that would hurt.
Then you squeeze the bag to inject fluid under the cat's skin.
The usual dosage is 100 ml.
There are more details to be observed, but that is the basic procedure.
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You need to understand that your cat's kidneys will never be cured - CRF is for ever.
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Posted by thistle
I also have a cat with renal failure. His values are BUN/45 and CREA/3.5. He may have had it for longer but we first noticed it 3 years ago. He has done very well and his values have not changed in that time. I have him on Royal Canin Low Protein and Hills K/D because he is kind of picky and some days he will only eat one or the other. I also give him good quality protein like boiled chicken and occasionally Blue Wilderness chicken or turkey. There is a lot of research that says a really good quality protein is ok to feed. So far I haven't had to do sub-q fluids or hospitalize him in the 3 years he has had this. There is so much new research on renal failure in cats. Lowering phosphorus may be of more benefit than lowering protein. Unfortunately even though you can slow the progression of the disease it will never completely go away. Good Luck. E mail me if I can be of help.
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