Hi All,
Tonight we noticed our cat was straining and just acting lethargic. We immediately took him to the emergency vet. The vet just called to give us an update. He had a complete blockage, the vet said the first catheter he inserted unblocked him. He ran some blood work and said his kidneys and everything looks fine, no blood etc. He said we caught it early he said. He did say he had a ton of crystals. We have been feeding him Wellness for the past 6 months. He is planning on putting him on Hills prescription science diet c/d. I asked him about the nutrition quality of the food and he said while it's not the most nutritional food nothing works better at lowering the chance of struvite crystals forming. He is keeping him in the hospital until sunday for more bloodwork and flushing his system out, etc.
For those of you who have already went through this in the past, if we eliminate the crystals does that pretty much guarantee no future blockages or is that not true? If not what else can we do. Also for those of you who used the c/d prescription how effective was it at eliminating
crystal formation when you had future urine analysis done. How often do I need to do this?
Thanks,
Greg
Tonight we noticed our cat was straining and just acting lethargic. We immediately took him to the emergency vet. The vet just called to give us an update. He had a complete blockage, the vet said the first catheter he inserted unblocked him. He ran some blood work and said his kidneys and everything looks fine, no blood etc. He said we caught it early he said. He did say he had a ton of crystals. We have been feeding him Wellness for the past 6 months. He is planning on putting him on Hills prescription science diet c/d. I asked him about the nutrition quality of the food and he said while it's not the most nutritional food nothing works better at lowering the chance of struvite crystals forming. He is keeping him in the hospital until sunday for more bloodwork and flushing his system out, etc.
For those of you who have already went through this in the past, if we eliminate the crystals does that pretty much guarantee no future blockages or is that not true? If not what else can we do. Also for those of you who used the c/d prescription how effective was it at eliminating
crystal formation when you had future urine analysis done. How often do I need to do this?
Thanks,
Greg