[Felvtalk] low phospherous foods

[Sharyl]

Tonya, I always say the best food for a CRF kitty is the lowest phos canned food they will eat.  Generally the target is less than 1% (dry matter).  Here is a link to a list of foods and the dry matter phos levels.
http://webpages.charter.net/katkarma/canfood.htm
 
You vet should have several prescription renal foods.  Mine refused to eat any of them.  What is your kitty's phos level?  If it is over 6.0 you can add Dried Aluminum Hydroxide Gel to the canned or dry food.  It is a very effective phos binder but it has to be in all the food you cat eats.  By adding the binder to the food you reduce the amount of phos the cat absorbs from the food.  Binders do not do anything about the phos currently in your cats system.  Just gives you cats kidneys a break while they process what is already there.  Here is a link to more info on binders.
About Phosphorus Binders 
http://tinyurl.com/37nye 
Dr. Nagode's dose recommendations are toward the bottom.   Unfortunately most vets do not understand the impact high phos has on a CRF kitty.   Most will try to sell you Epakitin which is pretty worthless for high phos nos.  You can buy the aluminum hydroxide on line.   No Rx required.    
 
Tanya's web site is the most comprehensive I have found for CRF.
www.felineCRF.org
 
The largest Yahoo CRF group is here.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Feline-CRF-Support/
 
Eating is often an issue for a CRF kitty.  Just like FeLV+ kitties it is critical for CRF kitties to eat enough to maintain their ideal body wt.  There is a Yahoo Assist Feeding group as well.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Feline-Assisted-Feeding/
 
Let me know if you need any other info.  Unfortunately my life had revolved around CRF kitties for the last  2 1/2 yrs. 
Sharyl

--- On Sat, 7/19/08, catatonya <catatonya at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: catatonya <catatonya at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Felvtalk] low phospherous foods
To: "felvtalk at felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 10:11 AM



can anyone tell me what numbers are considered to be 'low' for a crf cat. or better yet give me brand names??
thanks in advance. tonya_______________________________________________
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