5. Nutritional related disease

Question 1

How can Congestive Heart Failure be managed?

Answer 1

• Reduce water retention
• Restricting sodium intake and lowering sodium levels encourage diuresis
• Typical commercial dog and cat foods have a sodium content of 0.45%–0.9% (450–900 mg sodium/100 g diet dry matter).

When using a home-prepared diet, all processed meats, cheeses, bread, heart, kidney, liver, salted fats, whole eggs, and snack foods should be avoided.
Foods reasonably low in sodium include beef, rabbit, chicken, horsemeat, lamb, freshwater fish, oatmeal, corn, and rice.

Question 2

How can a taurine supplement help to manage CHF?

Answer 2

Used to exclude a possible depletion of this amino acid in cardiac muscle.

Both dogs and cats can develop dilated cardiomyopathy secondary to taurine deficiency.

Question 3

What is Atopic dermatitis and when does it occur?

Answer 3

A pruritic skin disease of dogs and cats.

With this condition, anallergicreaction occurs when ananimalinhales airborne substances (pollen, house dust) or ingests a substance to which they are sensitive.

Theallergicreaction causes theanimalto rub, lick, bite or scratch.