Feline Diabetes and Relationship to Recent Pet Food Recall?
Our 13 yr cat was experiencing most of the symptoms described for the pet food recall. A Vet visit showed an infection which was treated with an injection, but the vet says that wasn’t the cause of the symptoms. The vet ran some blood work and came back with Feline Diebetes. Now we stick the poor guy once a day with a needle to control his glucose levels.
From what I’ve read, the tainted recalled food effects the kidneys.
In regards to glucose levels, would the test results of a cat that ate the tainted food be the same for a diabetic cat?
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kidney failure have very different blood result compare to diabetes patient….diabetes are caused by a damage to the insulin producing cell (beta-lactam cells) in pancreas and thus unable to utilise glucose, and the glucose beocme so high in the blood. normally the kidney filter glucose and reabsorb it in the body, but because the glucose is so high int he blood, the kidney is no longer able to reabsorb the glucose, and therefore in the urine, there will be presence of glucose. however, this may sound complicated, but if cat are stressed, this could happen as well….. so the common signs of diabetes are increase in water intake, eating more (gd appetite) but wieght loss, and in the blood test, you may see some increase in pacreatic enzymes which is normally lipase and amplase…. dont worry, if your cat is a diabetic cat, you pply need regular check with ur vet anyway and do a glucose curve every now and then