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Most canned cat foods at the high end seem to include salmon oil which is a great source of Omega 3 fatty acids, but it seems like it wouldn't be advisable for a cat with hyperthyroid. Also avoiding seaweed stuff which includes kelp and carrageenan right? But I've only found one non vet expert article on the avoidance of salmon oil.
It may ultimately not matter but my cat Etta has a very high blood reading for thyroid (10.5) and she has other issues going on that may be far more serious. Until that gets some sort of prognosis (tomorrow) I was looking at nutritional support. She's starting on the thyroid medication now and while the pilling isn't easy, she seems to be tolerating the medication. She also has severe fluid retention in her abdomen for which she is getting a diuretic and the vet internist tomorrow might have more answers on what is causing that.
Right now it seems okay to give her what she will eat. She's my most reliable for eating the "good stuff" for canned food but almost all of it supplements with salmon oil, whitefish is a sneaky ingredient in foods that say "rabbit" for instance and kelp seems a popular ingredient too. It really is annoying that so many foods supplement with stupid fish but of course fish isn't in the front label and may be 3rd on the ingredient list. I will note that the Friskies Canned that everyone loves to poo poo that I give to the strays has neither kelp or salmon oil and I've not seen soy either on the pates.
Prepared raw also has kelp and salmon oil too plus I'm not sure what's all up with her and I'm not going to feed her homemade raw at the moment since there was white cells in the abdominal fluid indicating some sort of infection (she got an antibiotic shot).
The various helpful lists of food (gotta find that again) are assembled for different reasons. Just checking on what others feed their cats with the high thyroid. I'm not ever going with the Y/D stuff.
It may ultimately not matter but my cat Etta has a very high blood reading for thyroid (10.5) and she has other issues going on that may be far more serious. Until that gets some sort of prognosis (tomorrow) I was looking at nutritional support. She's starting on the thyroid medication now and while the pilling isn't easy, she seems to be tolerating the medication. She also has severe fluid retention in her abdomen for which she is getting a diuretic and the vet internist tomorrow might have more answers on what is causing that.
Right now it seems okay to give her what she will eat. She's my most reliable for eating the "good stuff" for canned food but almost all of it supplements with salmon oil, whitefish is a sneaky ingredient in foods that say "rabbit" for instance and kelp seems a popular ingredient too. It really is annoying that so many foods supplement with stupid fish but of course fish isn't in the front label and may be 3rd on the ingredient list. I will note that the Friskies Canned that everyone loves to poo poo that I give to the strays has neither kelp or salmon oil and I've not seen soy either on the pates.
Prepared raw also has kelp and salmon oil too plus I'm not sure what's all up with her and I'm not going to feed her homemade raw at the moment since there was white cells in the abdominal fluid indicating some sort of infection (she got an antibiotic shot).
The various helpful lists of food (gotta find that again) are assembled for different reasons. Just checking on what others feed their cats with the high thyroid. I'm not ever going with the Y/D stuff.