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I have a slightly chubby (a bit over 10 lbs/4.7 kg) 11 year old cat who has always had intermittent issues with vomiting (fluctuates from once or twice a month to a few times a week). After flying from California to Germany, she was having more issues than normal (no appetite, intermittent diarrhea, blood on poop probably from anal gland), but after about a month that all calmed down and I took her to the vet for her first ever tooth cleaning. For the next week, diarrhea and vomiting and lots of water drinking and the bloody poop was back. I brought her back to the vet and got a blood test done (I don't think they did one before anesthesia unfortunately) and the result was high creatinine and normal BUN. (The vet didn't seem concerned at all about the poop blood.)
The results were:
Creatinine 172.8 micromol/liter (normal range 0 - 168)
Harnstoff (I'm assuming this is BUN) 8.95 mmol/l (normal range 5 - 11.4)
She also had high eosinophils (which a vet has noted previously, probably from food allergies), basophils, leukocytes, cholesterol, and triglycerides, and low neutrophils and thrombocytes.
The vet wants to try her on a prescription kidney diet, but because of her food allergies I want to stay away from any corn/soy/rice based food. (Current food is grain free fish based kibble, the protein sources in her diet most of her life have been fish and chicken, planning on switching her to lamb or rabbit canned).
My question is, how worried should I be? Could the stress of moving and then anesthesia cause temporarily elevated creatinine or is it a pretty clear sign that her kidney function is starting to decline? Are there any kidney diets that are grain, soy, chicken, and fish free?
The diarrhea and vomiting have cleared up, she does drink a lot of water still though (but I think she always has). She overgrooms her stomach to baldness, but it's impossible to say if it's from stomach or urinary tract pain or just anxiety (she started the overgrooming a few years ago when there was a bluejay nest attracting a neighbor's cat to hang out outside the apartment's main window and never completely stopped).
The results were:
Creatinine 172.8 micromol/liter (normal range 0 - 168)
Harnstoff (I'm assuming this is BUN) 8.95 mmol/l (normal range 5 - 11.4)
She also had high eosinophils (which a vet has noted previously, probably from food allergies), basophils, leukocytes, cholesterol, and triglycerides, and low neutrophils and thrombocytes.
The vet wants to try her on a prescription kidney diet, but because of her food allergies I want to stay away from any corn/soy/rice based food. (Current food is grain free fish based kibble, the protein sources in her diet most of her life have been fish and chicken, planning on switching her to lamb or rabbit canned).
My question is, how worried should I be? Could the stress of moving and then anesthesia cause temporarily elevated creatinine or is it a pretty clear sign that her kidney function is starting to decline? Are there any kidney diets that are grain, soy, chicken, and fish free?
The diarrhea and vomiting have cleared up, she does drink a lot of water still though (but I think she always has). She overgrooms her stomach to baldness, but it's impossible to say if it's from stomach or urinary tract pain or just anxiety (she started the overgrooming a few years ago when there was a bluejay nest attracting a neighbor's cat to hang out outside the apartment's main window and never completely stopped).