Renal Diets aren't that fancy
Stop focusing too much on renal diets
Renal diets are
- typically designed for pets with chronic kidney disease (CKD) (chronic renal disease)
A rise of serum creatinine levels
- don't always mean a primary kidney disease
- do not essentially mean a chronic kidney disease
- could be due to a dehydration that may even resolve with fluids. There are numerous reasons like this for serum creatinine to increase in pets
Next time, if your pet's serum creatinine is high, don't jump into a renal diet. Instead, pause. Request your veterinarian for further diagnosis
Also, renal diets should be customized to meet the individual nutrient and energy requirements of pets with CKD at a particular time and should not be a one-size-fits-all diet simply because of the contribution of nutrients into normalizing blood chemistry at a given time
"The effects of renal kibble diets" is a topic for another day for their pros and cons in a patient with a poor appetite
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