DM or M/D?

[PatsGal]

My kitty Leroy is only 5 years old but was diagnosed with diabetes in January. We are doing Prozinc insulin and his numbers have been great but I did notice that I changed his food from Purina DM to Hill's M/D within the last month due to cost savings and his glucose has gone a little higher so now I have had to increase his insulin. I was under the impression it should be similar because the M/D is marketed to help regulate glucose too.

Has anyone seen a difference between the two? Should I go back to the Purina DM? Or could it be higher just because he's wanting to eat everything in sight now and I should just try the M/D for a little bit longer?

Just getting opinions from other cat moms and dads!

 

[Chris & China (GA)]

It's really not necessary to buy those expensive "prescription" foods at all!! Most of us feed plain old Fancy Feast Classics or Friskies pates.

They are better ingredients, low carb and a lot cheaper!

 

[FurBabiesMama]

Are these the dry foods or wet? The dry foods have too many carbs. I used to use a little of the Hill's M/D to steer Mia's glucose up if she started going too low when on ProZinc. After seeing the direct impact it had on her glucose, there is no way I would feed it to a cat as a regular food.

If you are referring to the wet foods, Hill's M/D is 13% carbs while Purina DM is only 6%. So the DM is much better; however, as Chris said, there is no need to use either of these foods. I feed my girls Weruva Chicken Frick A Zee which has much healthier ingredients and is only 2% carbs. You could use the cat food database (link in my signature) to find appropriate foods to try.