Thanks, Shelley. I'll talk to the vet about diet changes. I'm looking up Weruva right now.
Lance On Sep 15, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Shelley Theye <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lance, > > I just wanted to mention that my cat Jack, who does not have FeLV but does > have heart disease and FLUTD, had high triglycerides a few years ago. That > was when I was feeding grain free food with a high fat content. The vet > wanted to do an abdominal ultrasound to check pancreas, etc., but I was > worried about the stress if he had to be on his back, etc, with his heart > disease, so even though I usually do whatever the vet suggests, I decided to > just wait and recheck blood work a month or so later, and they said I could > find a lower fat diet for him. Anyway, after switching to a very low fat > grain free canned food, Weruva Paw-lickin Chicken, his triglycerides went > back to the normal range. I think they were up in the 600's? Can't recall > for sure and don't have the paperwork in front of me, and then went back to > somewhere in the mid normal range. > > So don't really know what caused his elevated triglycerides, but guessing it > might have been diet related, at least for him, since they responded to the > diet change, unless was just coincidence. > > Shelley > > > On Sep 13, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Lance wrote: > >> It's been a little while since I've posted about my 11 yro FeLV+ girl, >> Ember. We did blood work for her in late May, and her BUN and lipase levels >> were elevated. Creatinine was still within normal limits. Did a urine test, >> and she was concentrating her urine just fine. >> >> Yesterday, I took her in for skin problems she's having, which the doc >> thinks is dermatitis. We also ran blood work on her. Her BUN is now 45 (was >> 39), creatinine still normal, lipase high, and her triglycerides are now >> high. I don't have numbers for everything, but the blood work results should >> arrive this weekend. >> >> I will probably collect urine next week to test specific gravity again. >> Otherwise, I'm not sure of what to do. The doc says elevated lipase >> indicates pancreatitis in dogs, but isn't quite as definitive in cats. I did >> a little reading earlier, and I saw something about adding digestive enzymes >> to food, and that this might help with the lipase and triglyceride levels. >> Has anyone done this? Also, has anyone seen high BUN with normal creatinine >> and good specific gravity? >> >> Please let me know what you think. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Lance >> _______________________________________________ >> Felvtalk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
