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Originally Posted by 107barney  I have concerns about the "holistic diet" you were given. How much protein is in the diet? Were you given a recipe? There is MUCH misconceptions by vets and owners about how to do a home cooked meal properly for a regular pet let alone a pet with severe liver disease. Did they recommend the Hill's L/D diet? That is the diet of choice in liver shunt babies. I'm not sure what they hope to gain with this diet - are they trying to prevent stones? I'm sorry but the shunt is a far greater concern than the stones IMO. |
Hills faxed the holistic diet recipe to my vet. It wasn't created by her. She called the nutritionalist for hills and spoke with them. They said that he should use the L/D diet which she explained he was already on. They then recommended this. He has been on the Hills L/D diet for 6 months already and has seen no improvements.
This is what Dr. Center's from Cornell said to me : "We do not usee ameroid band constricters at Cornell, rather we tie the shunts off to the dogs individual tolerance determined in surgery. Ameroid constricters contract on their own after being placed around the shunt: some dogs cannot tolerate total ligation and they then develop multiple shunts when the ameroid constricts. To avoid that possibility, some surgeons place a "too large" ameroid that cannot totally occlude the shunt. When it contracts one hopes it optimally tied off the shunt to the dogs tolerance. As I said, we individually tie according to the dogs response, and do not use these constrictors."
As I said, we have been corresponding via email as she is in Africa.