Bladder Stone

[TeresaW]

Pierce started having trouble urinating this weekend. Randy took him to the vet yesterday and he was found to have a bladder stone. She wants to try diet for 4 weeks and see if it will dissolve. If not, we are looking at surgery. Of course, the foods that have the special diet for the bladder stone are awful. Pierce has never had corn or wheat in his life! Does anyone know of a grain-free food for this. I know it has to be one that will keep the urine ph at a certain level and be low in minerals. If necessary, we will just suffer through four weeks if there is a chance it will keep him from surgery.
You would think, by now, that both brands I have found would wake up and go grain free and offer a flavor other than chicken!


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[Cbrugs]

Have you considered raw? The moisture contained is good for the ph in urine. My parents male cat was having stone and urinary issues, I finally got them to try raw because the vet was telling them to do a prescription diet which was awful and making him sick. The raw made all the difference in the world and he is now doing well.

 

[Honeys Owners]

Calcium oxalate and struvite stones together make up 80% of stones. I assume it's a struvite stone since your vet is hoping it will dissolve. Did vet do a urine culture and sensitivity including testing for ureaplasma bacteria? If it's a struvite stone you probably have a urinary tract infection as well, which you need to treat with antibiotics that the bacterial infection is sensitive to for as long as the struvite stone is present. You may have to rotate between a couple of antibiotics. The special diet will only work if your dog has struvite stones, it's not for calcium oxalate stones. It will help dissolve the struvite kidney stone since it is low protein, highly acidifying, low in phosphate and magnesium and loaded with salt to increase thirst. It shouldn't be continued after the stone is gone. The most important thing is to get your dog to drink lots of fluids- have a water bowl, a broth bowl ( leave out for only 15 minutes since it will spoil ) and you can add water to the dog food if it is a dry one as well. You can also add dog probiotics to dogs diet. You can add potassium citrate ( 40-75 mg/kg body weight twice daily) if your dogs stone is not struvite, or ester-c 250mg twice daily if it's struvite. Make sure your dog is let out to pee frequently. After you are off the special diet I would just feed frozen food, home cooked food, or canned food since they are higher in water content.

 

[TeresaW]

Thank you so much! Randy said she mentioned oxylate but I had researched and found that one food works for both, the other does not. I have to go by there this evening so I will ask for more information. Luckily, Pierce is a dog that drinks quite a bit. I like the idea of the broth and we are going to mix the canned and dry together. Thanks for the advice on the ester-C and potassium citrate. I will get one or the other after I leave the vets office.


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[TeresaW]

Have you considered raw? The moisture contained is good for the ph in urine. My parents male cat was having stone and urinary issues, I finally got them to try raw because the vet was telling them to do a prescription diet which was awful and making him sick. The raw made all the difference in the world and he is now doing well.

I have been thinking about trying raw recently. This may be the thing that gets me started doing it. Going to do some research this evening.


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[Honeys Owners]

If it's oxalate, then you don't need the special diet,and you can try the frozen diet- Stella & Chewy's, Primal and Natures Variety are brands mentioned in the sticky on frozen diet. You can give the potassium citrate.

 

[Cbrugs]

I have been thinking about trying raw recently. This may be the thing that gets me started doing it. Going to do some research this evening.


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When Jax ate kibble he drank a ton of water but now that he eats raw, his drinking is minimal because there is so much moisture in raw.