Glad to know you approve of Omega 3--I have always read good things about it but didn't know with this current condition if it may stir up some kind of complications--you never know.
One never does, especially with pancreatitis in the mix.
Saoirse's regimen was as follows:
- The most bland commercial complete cat food I could find (chicken/turkey meat, jelly, vitamins and minerals, cassia gum).
- 2mg ondansetron BID (10lb cat).
- Nutramed herbal anti-inflammatory (boswellia, milk thistle, maritime pine bark) - 1 capsule per day spread across all meals (loading dose); 1/2 capsule per day spread across all meals (maintenance dose).
- Hepatosyl q 24 (SAM-e and milk thistle supplement) - for liver and pancreas support (similar to Denamarin).
- Moxxor Omega 3 supplement BID (from green-lipped mussels - other fish oils made her very nauseated, especially salmon oil - tiny Moxxor capsules made for easy administration - available online).
- mini meal feeding of the most bland complete food I could find (high protein, moderate fat, very low carb <2% kcals from carbs) with a little water added.
- Zobaline 1.5mg q24 (didn't give full dose because she also had stage II kidney insufficiency).
- 0.12 - 0.15ml bupe as needed (in later stages - mostly to help with blood pressure issues as conventional BP treatments triggered GI distress or inflamed her pancreas and had to be withdrawn).
When CKD came into the mix I used the following additional treatments:
- good quality B-complex (Jarrow B-right - 1/10 capsule per day).
- Aluminium hydroxide binder.
- pumpkin to help with constipation issues arising from side effects of bupe, ondansetron and AlOH.
- eventually added Miralax to soften stools, again due to constipating effects of other treatments.
- occasional treatment with organic slippery elm bark.
Mogs
.
