The key process in the development of kidney stones is supersaturation. The urine carries chemicals, including calcium oxalate, uric acid, cystine, or xanthine. Low Oxalate Diet Low Oxalate Diet May Help Prevent Kidney Stones. Kidney stones are a common disorder of the urinary tract. Kidney stones are pieces of stone-like. Customizing a Dog's Diet for Calcium Oxalate Stones. STONESNote: The author has had. She has merely documented her experience. Be sure to check with your veterinarian. The following is the result of research. WATERPROTEINFATSCARBOHYDRATESOXALATESACID/BASESALTNUTRITIONAL. SUPPLEMENTSWATERWater intake is the most important. The Journal of the American Medical. Associateion (June 1. Drinking more fluids dilute the chemical salts in the. Some people are born with a genetic tendency to secrete excess oxalate into the urine. This condition, hyperoxaluria, is rare; most cases. Continued L ow Oxalate Diet University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Information for Patients Kidney stones are caused by a buildup of minerals in the urine. All About Oxalate Bladder And Kidney Stones In Your Dog And How To Manage Them (Cystic and renal calculi). Fresh water is a necessity and water from. Switch from dry to canned food and add water to the. Give dry food as treats. If you feed a homemade recipe, get as much. I have increased the water in her recipe. Dr Adams suggested keeping as much water. Amie's not much of a drinker (never has been).
She suggested giving Amie the turkey broth. She will prefer. it to water if she's going to drink. Amie still drinks rarely in a day. She especially likes. We call it . If she doesn't drink right away. PROTEINMy veterinarian, Claudia Lewis. It said. that the management of protein intake is the most important aspect of nutritional. The protein must be highly digestible - (What. In human populations where protein is reduced. A human study in Great. Britain showed that vegetarians formed stones at 1/8 the rate of the general. A high protein diet can cause stones by. It lowers urinary p. H and can increase. High quantities of animal protein can contribute to stone formation. Michigan State University Vet Clinic said. FATSEating animal fat has been associated. Fats should be unsaturated and constitute. CARBOHYDRATESDigesting carbohydrates are no. A study showed that a high fiber diet decreased. Another study showed that defatted rice. Asparagus is said to break up oxalate crystals. ACID/BASECalcium stones have an alkaline. This conflicts with. Acidifying diets can contribute to stone- formation. It is by far Amie's favorite food. She will eat anything. She will rouse herself from a deep sleep when. Claudia said even a trace of peanut butter isn't a trace to a 7. SALTAmie's lithotripsy veterinarian. Dr Adams, recommended that we add a tiny amount of plain salt (salt with. Do not use. kelp. Someone suggested sea salt. Salty food may cause side effects with. Urocit. The UC Davis nutritionist suggested Mortons. This. is opposite of Adam's recommendation. I'll go with Adams on this one. How much salt? When Amie's original recipe. Excess sodium may increase urine. Currently I lightly salt each portion, but how do I know. NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTSI thought that if I found a homemade. I could add food to balance her diet and. The balancing. with real food has so far been impossible. How do I know what other nutrients. Hill's and other canine nutritionists urged me to get canine. I had tried pet vitamins at various times. A Hill's researcher. I include a nutritional supplement with no additives and. Name one. Claudia doesn't carry supplements so she. This vet said no dog. I explained that that is precisely my problem. Two choices of multi- supplements weren't in the same. I had. seen recommended in a book. How could there be such a difference in the. I know proportion is important. I subscribe to the theory. I could. not figure from the labels which supplement was appropriate for Amie. It. was a moot issue, anyway, since they all had some ingredient I knew she. I had given her Pet. Guard years ago to handle. B vitamins. So I added Pet. Guard to her diet and there was. I'm concerned that she's not getting enough other. I prefer to give her real food. B vitamins often must be. There have been. some cat studies which suggest B- 6 supplementation may reduce urinary oxalic. Vitamin B- 1. 2 has been recommended. Amie's custom homemade diet. Dr Larry. Adams said it won't affect calcium oxalate stones - won't hurt, may help. Claudia suggested finding a tiny dose at. The bird store owner scolded me out the door when I asked. I'm still searching. Vitamin C is a precursor. About half of vitamin C eaten is converted to oxalic acid. I have been giving Amie Pet. Guard Yeast. Tablets for the additional vitamin B. A canine nutritionist recommended. C. A Pet. Guard. representative said the vitamin C is naturally- occurring in the food used. She didn't think this form. C would be a problem, but I don't know. The Animal. Advocate, William Cusick, believes that dogs produce their own vitamin. C and supplementing is harmful. He says many pet food companies add it. Vitamin D promotes intestinal. Magnesium should not be restricted. Magnesium and calcium compete for oxalate, but magnesium. This is too. tricky for the amateur. Messing up the magnesium balance can be fatal. Some of these foods are oxalate. Calcium. In humans, about half the daily requirement. Restricting calcium may cause osteoporosis and restricting. The Harvard School. Public Health found that men who had lots of calcium in their diet showed. It's interesting that canine nutritionists. Not all calcium supplements are alike. They react differently. That's why it is so important. H. The UC Davis canine nutritionist we consulted. Amie's calcium oxalate kidney stones. But from what source? It can be made from. Oyster shell is the poorest form. Someone. suggested Tums. I contacted the nutritionist, who said bonemeal is preferred. The label says, . The source of this product. He said that regardless of what was on the label. Isn't bonemeal. a form of calcium carbonate? He was so rude I really am reluctant to call. Make sure you don't get a calcium supplement. Call the Calcium Information Center for. Call New York Hospital- Cornell Medical. Center and Oregon Health Sciences Univeristy toll- free hotline (8. Potassium. The New England Journal of Medicine. Vets. strongly recommend not supplementing with potassium. Digestive Enzymes. Digestive enzymes have been recommended. The Pet. Guard rep said they will result in effective. We got Dr Goodpet's canine digestive enzymes. So far we haven't seen increased thirst. Amie, but the frequency of her urinations have increased from 3 to. We noticed an increase in volume, which might concern us, except. Dr Larry Adams, who performed the lithotripsy. Because I have seen a fairly detailed website. H with stones and other treatments, I will. I get more info pro or con. Fish Oil. Eskimos live on a diet of fatty fish but. A doctor in Scotland found fish oil as a preventative. In Glasgow researchers found that fish oil with evening. I gave Amie omega- 3. Fish liver. oil may increase the chance of stone formation. AMIE'S. FOR KIDNEY AND SKIN. PROBLEMSNote: The author has had. She has merely documented her experience. Be sure to check with your veterinarian. I was very nervous about. Figuring that if she could tolerate poultry, I would. I tried the recipe with a drug- free frozen. Shelton Farms. produces free- range turkeys raised without antibiotics or artificial growth. She. did well on the turkey breast and I began cooking whole turkeys. After it was determined that Amie was not. Hill's Prescription. If Amie did OK, we could switch her to canned food which. The problem is that the labels list. Of Hill's four commercial dog foods which. Since she was doing so well on this diet. She has basically been on this diet (See Amie's. Custom Recipe) now since October 1. How can we get her diet. Three canine nutritional specialists promised. Amie's diet to make it more balanced. One even required us to. Amie's food analyzed by Woodson- Tenet Laboratories, a. The Woodson. Lab results showed that her original homemade diet was low in sodium, fat. We made some adjustments that did have a positive effect (confirmed. The three who had promised did not follow through. They. simply did not do it. After offering their assistance, they would not respond. Claudia's prodding and just blew us off. Why promise in the first place? I found William Cusick. He was instrumental in recommending. He will design a custom- made diet based on your. I received a packet of information. Bill's diet included wheat and corn, which. Amie is allergic to. He recommended parsley and garlic, which we now know. Amie shouldn't have. And he suggested broccoli, which, is not oxalate- forming. I was grateful for Bill's thoughtfulness. Amie but found that I can't. I don't live in a laboratory, I live in the real world. One of. the ingredients he recommended, for example, was a large turkey gizzard. I live near one of the largest turkey producers. I cannot get a large turkey gizzard every week. Another problem I have with his recipe. From a food safety standpoint. I don't feel comfortable saving frozen- defrosted- cooked meat for a week. Bill's very detailed list of recommended. He strongly advised me to stop giving. Amie Pet. Guard Yeast Tablets (6 mg vitamin C) because dogs make their own. C and vitamin C causes her type of stones. I called Pet. Guard and. She said the vitamin C in the. C in the broccoli Bill recommends. This is confusing. She offered to send. Nevertheless, it was worth $2. Bill would come up with. If you have a larger dog maybe his recommendations. I mention him at all because I believe he is. Most of the people who call themselves pet nutritionists. He is the only source I found that. I learned for example that poodles shouldn't. He also believes that artificial additives can be harmful. I used his information to. I found. I wish. though, that he knew more about kidney stones and acknowledged the limitations. OTHER ASSISTANCEA representative from Hill's told. Claudia about a veterinarian at U. Davis that formulates special- need. One of the staff members suggested we first try the Hill's u/d diet. Then she suggested trying an Elimination Diet (done that). I also included . She believes Amie now has indications of struvite disease. Struvite stones are due to infection. I continued to use organic carrots because I believe in their. The Animal Advocate's info about carotene, I've stopped adding that. She suggested vitamin and mineral supplements. Internet, but I'm tracking. One of her suggestions is 5. B- 1. 2. The. smallest amount I can get is 5. I. figured I could grind up a batch of supplements 1. B- 1. 2 tablet, making 1. I don't have the.
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