[NAGDU] Testing blood sugar.

[The Pawpower Pack]

The point of a diet for a dog with kidney disease is to reduce the phosphorus in the diet.  Many believe that this means reducing proteine which is inaccurate.  Actually good quality proteine is very important.  So I still feed meat, high fat meat because the higher the fat, the lower the phos.  So high fat beef and dark meat chicken or pork.  Then raw eggs because eggs are some of the best forms of complete proteine and fairly low phos.  Then low phos veggies which are the only things I cook.  I rotate them, squash, sweet potatoes etc.  I have 2 dogs with kidney disease.  My working dog eats prey model raw.  My kidnew diet is creating using a phosphorus budget.  So they each can have 950 mg phos every day, and I build the diet around that.   I have an app for my phone that allows me to look at the amount of phos in various foods.  It was a lot of work at first but is just habit now.


 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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> On May 25, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Heather Bird via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>    Hi. Just curious. You were doing prey model raw, what is her kidney diet? Is it a commercially produced diet, or a home cooked version you came up with, or a modified raw diet with different components? I know how to do the basic raw prey model diet, and I know that it can be adapted to better meet the needs of some dogs with particular health concerns, but I'm not sure if it can be adapted to work for a dog with kidney issues? Thanks for indulging my curiosity.
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>> On 5/25/2017 9:07 AM, The Pawpower Pack via NAGDU wrote:
>> Yes this is dog-related.  My almost 15 year old retired dog, Mill'E, has recently had some behavior changes.  Mostly tired, later in the day, so much so that she doesn't want to go outside. When we removed her spleen in September because of a baseball sized lump she was in kidney failure so I went to the vet thinking the worse was about to happen.
>> Only it turned out, that because of the diet I put her on, we have been able to reverse and control the kidney disease to the degree that the only indicator was a BUN 2 points above high. Her creatinine tested totally normal, which was awesome and made me feel super excited about her diet. But the behavior issues remain the same.  What is the issue is that she seems unable to keep her blood sugar up and it came back in the 60's each time it was tested.
>> So I'm going to feed her smaller meals during the day instead of one big breakfast.  Which is a holdover from when she was eating strictly raw meaty bones because I like my dogs to have large pieces of prey.  But since she is eating a kidney diet and no bones that's not an issue.
>> However I think I'd like to be able to test her blood sugar at home to make sure she's getting enough and just for my own need to be a control freak so I know what times to feed and how far I should space things.
>> You can use the same units for dogs that you do for people.  I know they have talking glucometers but I'm deafblind so that is not helpful.  What I'm looking for is one that will do bluetooth and connect with my iPhone so I can read the testing on my braille display.
>> Does anyone use something like this?
>> Thanks for any help and sorry for the weird question.
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>>  Rox and the kitchen Bitches:
>> Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
>> Pawpower4me at gmail.com
>> Sent from my iPhone
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