Sydney's kidneys

[mrspunkysmom]

Prayers headed your way!

[phesina]

Prayers headed your way!

Thank you, Anne, for the prayers!

[pomtzu]

Eat Sydney, eat! You need to keep up your strength for your fan club.

Pat - check with your vet about giving him a vitamin B shot. This will stimulate his appetite and is more long acting than pilling. Seems to me that he's just being down right picky if he'll eat sometimes and somethings, and not others. At his age I guess he's earned the right to be finicky tho.

Myndi has kidney disease and has been on a prescription diet for almost a year now (she's almost 16) and is doing reasonably well. Over the summer we had to change the brand since she got sick of the first one and refused to eat it any longer, but so far she continues to eat the new one. Doc also gave me some recipes for some homemade low protien foods but she won't touch any of those, but I can take some of the ingredients from them and add to the canned prescription food when she starts to get somewhat finicky.

Prayers for Sydney from me and The Fuzzbuttz.

[lvpets2002]

Aweee poor wittle Sydney.. Get Well Soon Bigg Boy.. Sending Lots Lots of Prayers & Whisker Kisses..

[neko1]

Tama is a very picky eater too. Luckily, for now, he loves the K/D and his weight has been holding steady since his first crash 6 months ago.

I also give him 1/4 mirtazapine when I notice he's not eating as much as he should. He also has the vitamin B added to his fluids.

I remember when he first crashed, trying to feed him anything and everything- and doing the mound thing with the food too!

[phesina]

Thank you, pomtzu and Helene and neko1. Sydney has eaten QUITE well today.. He seems to like 9 Lives Daily Essentials Turkey and Giblets Dinner.. he snarfed up a third of the can! I'll serve him more later and see if he still likes it the next time.

He has been picky with food for quite a long time. I'm not sure just how long, or if he's always been picky. I'd see that he got the basic serving amount each day. Since I know now he's lost quite a bit of weight and he's showing other signs of advancing kidney disease, I'm doing my best now to feed him up with lots of yummy stuff.

I will also check with the vet about giving him some Vitamin B and/or mirtazapine.

Thanks again, all!

[Lizzie]

Lots of positive thoughts from me also for Sydney.

I'm another with a kidney failure cat, a foster I call Sam. I use Mirtazapine also and it's great, and I also put Vit.B 12 complex (3mls) into each bag of Ringers. Vit.B is light sensitive so you have to keep the bag in the closet in between treatments. How often are you giving fluids? I give Sam 100 in the evening and 75 in the morning. She's about 7# (she was 4.5# when I got her.) She absorbs it well so it's no problem. What are his kidney values - BUN, Creatinine, Potassium and Phosphorous?

Sam has pulled out of many crises, and I'm always thinking the end is very close. But we try something else and she pulls through. She's on Epogen because the kidney failure caused severe anemia, and that's worked very well. She also gets a high white cell count sometimes so we pulse her on Baytril. All these treatments are gentle and improve her quality of life, I'd never be in favor of simply doing anything to keep a cat alive.

Have you tried sliced turkey breast from the deli? I never know what Sam is going to like next so I simply let her roam to whatever food she feels like - except my food and I only give her very tiny amount of cheese, etc. - she'd throw it back up otherwise.

In regard to nausea in kidney failure cats, we've put Sam on Cerenia for a week a few times and she's bounced back very well.