New diagnosis of CKD - diet help advice

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Hi! I hope I did that thread thing correct above. It's mostly about dosing help. Thank you to all that held my hand though that.

Brief summary - I am new to caring for someone else's diabetic cat for the next 6 months. Blue has been on 5 units of insulin twice a day for a year and eating a combo diet. I have transitioned him to a canned diet and reduced his insulin to 1 unit twice a day. Before his people left, I had them take him to the vet for bloodwork. It had been a year. The results were just forwarded to me today and the vet wants to put him on k/d to help his kidneys. Uh - yuck! The vet said his diabetes was controlled. He made no mention of how a diet change would affect his diabetes.

What do you feed a diabetic cat with early kidney disease?

He currently eats Friskies Mixed Grill Pate, which he likes. He frowns at any other flavor of Friskies. The pate is mixed with lots of water too. My gut is saying stay the course with the Friskies and recheck blood in 6 months.

Thank you in advance for ideas. I have communicated my gut response to Blue's owner. They are reasonable and have been open to my ideas.
 
amousm said:
What do you feed a diabetic cat with early kidney disease?
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It depends on what stage. If you have the bloodwork, can you put the labs into your spreadsheet under the "labs" tab?

@Marje and Gracie is our lab guru but there are several people here that are pretty good with reading labs.

But you're totally right in avoiding the "kidney diet". It's about 40% carb. If he's in early CKD, it's probably fine to continue what you're feeding and re-check in 6 months but if he's in mid-later stage CKD, you'll want to feed a canned food that's both low carb and low phosphorus. You want to keep it under 10% carbs and under 200mg phosphorus.

Weruva makes a large variety both in flavors and textures that are both low carb/low phos and they put their nutritional information on their website for the world to see!
 
Thanks!
The labs are uploaded in the spreadsheet. He had labs in August 2020 which are also uploaded.
I am not a bloodwork expert and the vet didn't quote a stage.
 
The vet said that they took a BG at the office and it was normal. The lab got 34.
I have communicated 44 I got and the testing I have been doing at home. At 44, Blue acted like all was right in the world. At 34, he was also fine. I guess I should put that in the SS.
 
amousm said:
At 44, Blue acted like all was right in the world. At 34, he was also fine.
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China could drop into the 30's without showing any signs other than being very demanding for food...NOW! There were a few times when I got LO on the meter too which mean she was under 20 :nailbiting:
 
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