How to Recognize the Signs

How to Recognize the Signs & Symptoms of Canine Kidney Disease


How to Recognize the Signs and Symptoms of
Canine Kidney Disease. Canine kidney disease
is a serious condition that can develop over
time or appear suddenly, without warning.
Identify the common signs and symptoms so
you can call your vet for advice. You will
need Dog Water Dog food and veterinarian.
Step 1. Watch your dog to see if he drinks
more water than usual. Dehydration is an early
sign of kidney disease. Always provide your
dog with plenty of fresh drinking water. Measure
the water you given them to see if the amount
they drink increases or decreases. Step 2.
Determine whether or not your dog is urinating
more than usual. See if you have to make more
trips outside during a day, or whether your
dog starts having accidents inside the house.
Step 3. Take note if your dog is constantly
tired and unwilling to play. Monitor your
dog's energy level to help spot other potential
problems. Don't feed your dog grapes or raisins.
They can cause kidney failure, particularly
in dogs with other health problems. Step 4.
Be sure that your dog is eating their food
and not losing weight, as loss of appetite
can signal kidney disease. Step 5. Check your
dog's coat to see that it isn't thinning or
drier than usual. Look at the dog's mouth,
and make sure his tongue isn't a brown color,
there aren't any ulcers, and that the dog's
breath doesn't have an ammonia-like smell.
Step 6. React at the first symptoms of kidney
disease. Many of the physical signs occur
only in the final stages of the illness, when
75 percent or more of the kidney tissue has
been destroyed. Step 7. Take your dog to the
veterinarian if the dog shows any signs of
canine kidney disease. Follow the vet's advice
and change the dog's diet, administer medicines,
or do whatever is needed to stabilize or improve
the situation. Early treatment can prevent
a more serious situation. Did you know A 2010
study showed that dogs mimic their owners'
behaviors and body movements. For instance,
when the owner yawned, the dog yawned, too.
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Treating Kidney Failure Through Diet



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&quot;Treating Kidney Failure Through Diet&quot;
One of the most important functions of our kidneys is
to filter out excess phosphorus from our bloodstream,
and so when our kidney function declines, phosphorus can
build up in our bodies and cause something
called metastatic calcification, where your heart valves and muscles
and other parts of your body can
build up calcium deposits and eventually result in skin
necrosis, gangrene, amputations, all sorts of bad stuff.
So, if a person has diminished kidney function, their doctor
will likely put them on a low phosphate diet,
which is tough, because basically everything with protein
has phosphorus. So, both plant foods and
animal foods have phosphorus. But when omnivores have been compared to those eating vegan,
vegans had significantly less protein leaking out into their
urine, a sign of intact kidney function.
So while they concluded that, “These results can confirm
the usefulness of vegetarianism here and support...
the use of a vegan diet&quot; for patients with kidney
failure, maybe it was just because the omnivores
were getting “a higher protein load,” and we know that
lower protein diets appear to delay the progression
of kidney failure. So did the plant-based diet help because
they were eating less protein or because the
body somehow is able to handle plant protein better than animal protein?
Now to figure that out, you’d have to split people into
two groups, half on a vegetarian diet, half not,
with the critical caveat to make sure both groups
eat the exact same amount of protein and
the exact same amount of phosphorus. And that’s what researchers did.
Published recently in the Journal of the American Society
of Nephrology, they took vegetarians and put
them on a meat diet, and then took meat-eaters and
put them on a vegetarian diet. Even though
phosphorus and protein intake were kept the same in
both diet groups, here’s the level of phosphorus
stuck in the bloodstream of those on the meat
diet, compared to those on the veg diet.
So there's just something about plant foods that enables
our bodies to better handle their phosphorus content.
Same amount of phosphorus, but plant phosphorus appears
easier to cleanse away from our body.
Positive results have been seen even with semi-vegetarian
diets, but the reason the new study
observed more dramatic differences after only 1 week, was perhaps because of the pure vegetarian
diets used in this study. Taken together, a vegetarian-based
diet may be beneficial for the control of
phosphorus balance in patients with chronic kidney disease.