Feline Diabetes – Remedies/Treatment
Feline diabetes cannot be cured. If the disease is managed properly, feline diabetics can live several happy and healthy years after diagnosis. Successful management of the disease requires a good working relationship between patient and veterinarian and regular home blood glucose monitoring by the caregiver to ensure that the patient’s condition remains stabilized. These cats can lead happy lives for many years in an exclusively indoor environment with the help of high-quality, nutritious foods, and minimal stress and exposure to infectious agents.
Management includes monitoring and reducing the patient’s weight, if the cat is obese. Excess weight interferes with the body’s ability to regulate blood glucose levels. Stretching meals out to several small servings of food per day versus one or two larger meals helps to keep blood glucose levels steady.
Insulin by injection once or twice a day is the treatment method most prescribed for feline diabetes. The veterinarian will prescribe the type and frequency of daily insulin injections depending on the individual cat’s needs. Careful monitoring of blood glucose levels is necessary, as diabetic cats’ insulin needs change often. Some cats will even enter one or more “honeymoon” periods, in which they regulate themselves for short periods of time, and temporarily go off their insulin therapy.
Feline diabetes patients require highly nutritious wet foods that are packed with protein and meat and low on carbohydrates, along with top-shelf vitamin and mineral supplements, to keep their immune systems strong enough to repel secondary infection. (Dry foods do not contain the same high protein levels and should be avoided at all costs.) This wet food diet is known to cause remission in some diabetic cats. Caregivers should feel free to use either commercially canned wet foods or raw or cooked, home-prepared foods.
The herbs, vitamins and minerals discussed below can also help supplement any conventional course of treatment or health maintenance program. It would be wise, however, to confirm with a veterinary professional whether a particular herb or herbs will adversely interact with treatment before administering any. Supplementation with NuVet Plus has been shown to greatly help feline patients in general and to protect diabetic cats from developing secondary bacterial infections by strengthening the body against attack from infectious agents. Even your most expensive cat foods can lack the proper nutrition necessary to optimal cell function and longevity. Our scientists formulated NuVet Plus after extensive testing with many different ingredients and combinations of ingredients, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, brewer’s yeast, whey protein, blue green algae, cat’s claw, iron and shark cartilage. The addition of alpha amylase to the formula helps the body absorb these ingredients as quickly as possible.
NuVet Plus obtains its Vitamin B complex from chicken liver, which is good for boosting immunity. NuVet paddle-dries its chicken liver to better retain Vitamin B complex, Vitamins A and C and important omega fatty acids. The NuVet Plus formula gives a cat’s immune system a synergistic and powerful antioxidant boost to help it fight off the effects of free radicals. When NuVet Plus is added to a cat’s diet, it jumps in to assist her natural defense system.
NuVet Plus’s ingredients provide the nutrients necessary to proper hormonal balance, improve resistance to disease and parasites, and heal tissues from the ravages of infection. They also support and strengthen the immune system to better resist attack by secondary infections. The instance of secondary infections can be slowed and even prevented altogether through the continuous use of NuVet Plus and a proper diet.
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