Luna has another UTI (07-07-07: Back to the vet)

[Kirsten]

Thank you everyone!

Luna doesn't seem to feel bad, at least she doesn't give the impression. But I caught her in the act when she just wanted to pee on my couch (!!) this morning, so I figure she still has this odd feeling in her bladder. Poor girl!

It's really not fair that some cats, like Luna, or poor Pouncer, have to deal with this all the time!

kb2yjx, I never heard of this Phenoxybenzamine, but I will ask my vet about it.

momcat, Miss Lily is doing fine!! But she whined yesterday when I brought Luna to the vet.

Kirsten

[rg_girlca]

Prayers and positive thoughts on the way that precious Luna starts to feel better very soon.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm so sorry that Luna keeps having UTI's. I sure hope that she'll start feeling better soon.

I was reading about some ways to help prevent UTI's in cats that you can do at home. Here are some of the things that you can do to help Luna:

1.Give her vitamin C and cranberry juice. The vitamin C acidifies the urine making it more difficult for the bacteria to grow as well as dissolving the more common type of crystal,struvite. The vitamin C dose is 250mg per 20lbs daily.

2. Feed her more canned food to increase her moisture intake. Depending on the type of crystal that the cat may have it's important to either acidify the urine (with stuvite) or to make the urine more alkaline (oxalate crystals). An easy way to acidify the urine is to raise the meat protein level. Making the urine more alkaline involves decreasing the protein level and adding a supplement, potassium citrate.

I got this information from the free e-book veterninary secrets revealed. It's free to download this booklet that tells you some of the basics. here's the link: Veterinary Secrets Revealed. You can also sign up for their newsletter which will tell you some more important information about our pets.

[Kirsten]

Thanks for the advice. I definitely need to try to get some cranberry juice. Cranberry, in addition with Vitamine C, is only available in capsules here, and I'm not sure if Luna will eat those. But it's worth a try though.

As Luna tends to have struvite crystals, we try to acidify her urine with UroPet paste. That's a paste I'm mixing under her food every day. She's also on Cantharis, a homeopathic pill that seems to help her a lot. But still, her UTIs occur from time to time; twice a year, as it seems...

Kirsten