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squeem3
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Welcome!
It's kind of like with Human diabetics. The right diet along with insulin can help any diabetic regulate their blood glucose levels. Some diabetics can even go into remission and no longer need insulin. Diet alone is enough.
Do you have a diabetic cat or want to learn how to potentially avoid your cats developing diabetes in the future?
It's kind of like with Human diabetics. The right diet along with insulin can help any diabetic regulate their blood glucose levels. Some diabetics can even go into remission and no longer need insulin. Diet alone is enough.
Do you have a diabetic cat or want to learn how to potentially avoid your cats developing diabetes in the future?
squeem3
Member Since 2009
Start with the home page https://felinediabetes.com/ and then read through all of the Info stickies at the top of the forums.
A poor diet (aka dry food only) is a common reason why many cats develop diabetes. The right diet for cats is what has been called "Catkins" or "Cat Atkins": low carb food. This means canned food or raw food. Canned food is the most doable for people to feed. Not all canned foods are low in carbs. There's a food chart people reference to find out how many carbs are in various brands of canned food: https://catinfo.org/docs/CatFoodProteinFatCarbPhosphorusChart.pdf Diabetic cats stick with less than 10% carbs. For a non-diabetic, it's ok to mostly feed low carb while occasionally indulging in a higher carb food. If you can feed only or mostly canned food, that would be great for the cats. If you have to feed some dry food, there are some brands that are considered ok to feed.
I personally feed my diabetic a commercial freeze dried raw food but I've always feed him commercial raw food. The diabetes was caused by long term steroid use to manage the IBD.
A poor diet (aka dry food only) is a common reason why many cats develop diabetes. The right diet for cats is what has been called "Catkins" or "Cat Atkins": low carb food. This means canned food or raw food. Canned food is the most doable for people to feed. Not all canned foods are low in carbs. There's a food chart people reference to find out how many carbs are in various brands of canned food: https://catinfo.org/docs/CatFoodProteinFatCarbPhosphorusChart.pdf Diabetic cats stick with less than 10% carbs. For a non-diabetic, it's ok to mostly feed low carb while occasionally indulging in a higher carb food. If you can feed only or mostly canned food, that would be great for the cats. If you have to feed some dry food, there are some brands that are considered ok to feed.
I personally feed my diabetic a commercial freeze dried raw food but I've always feed him commercial raw food. The diabetes was caused by long term steroid use to manage the IBD.
Diabetes is never "cured." However, cats can go into remission and no longer need insulin. If a cat goes into remission, they are more accurately a diet controlled diabetic.
There are factors such as illness or going back to eating a high carbohydrate diet that may cause the remission to fail.
There are factors such as illness or going back to eating a high carbohydrate diet that may cause the remission to fail.
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