How to Manage Your Dog's Bladder Stones
Feed the dog food recommended by or prescribed by the vet., Be wary when your dog starts getting a lot of infections., Understand that you will be faced with having to get the stones removed when the abrasiveness of the stones final draws blood from...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Feed the dog food recommended by or prescribed by the vet.
This isn't a complete answer but it is a good start. -
Step 2: Be wary when your dog starts getting a lot of infections.
These may be a sign that the bacteria causing the infections has become a substrate for the calcium and oxalate crystals.
These tend to stick to and snowball into sizable stones. ,, Clean a ceramic dish with regular water, then let distilled water stand in the clean dish for an hour.
Discard the water, put the small dish upside down on a paper towel, so as not to collect anything from the air, until the next use.
Make a chart with blank date columns and items that the chemical strips test for in the rows.
Here you can indicate the readings on the respective dates.
Note that doing this should be started long before your dog gets sick.
It would be helpful once-a-month, to record a normal history for comparison.
As changing levels of glucose (diabetes), ketones (diabetes), pH change (infection), white blood cells (infection), red blood cells (serious infection)all mean something is not right. , A change from one month to the next is an alert, that should be followed up by another test in a few days, or a week to see if it is an aberration.
Heed these alerts to gather information on the web as to what might be happening to your dogs health and get to the vet early and tell him/her that you want to participate in maintaining your dog's health. , When you see the dog's urine go basic above 7, add foods, and supplements to influence an acidic urine.
Take urine weekly, and daily if something has changed.
Keep doing it bi-weekly when things are fine. -
Step 3: Understand that you will be faced with having to get the stones removed when the abrasiveness of the stones final draws blood from the bladder wall; this will come out in the urine.
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Step 4: If your dog has repeated infections
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Step 5: start taking a urine sample each week on your own (you can order labstix (Chemstrips) from your local pharmacy).
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Step 6: Heed changes.
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Step 7: Keep your dog's urine acidic
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Step 8: as bacteria thrives in alkali solutions.
Detailed Guide
This isn't a complete answer but it is a good start.
These may be a sign that the bacteria causing the infections has become a substrate for the calcium and oxalate crystals.
These tend to stick to and snowball into sizable stones. ,, Clean a ceramic dish with regular water, then let distilled water stand in the clean dish for an hour.
Discard the water, put the small dish upside down on a paper towel, so as not to collect anything from the air, until the next use.
Make a chart with blank date columns and items that the chemical strips test for in the rows.
Here you can indicate the readings on the respective dates.
Note that doing this should be started long before your dog gets sick.
It would be helpful once-a-month, to record a normal history for comparison.
As changing levels of glucose (diabetes), ketones (diabetes), pH change (infection), white blood cells (infection), red blood cells (serious infection)all mean something is not right. , A change from one month to the next is an alert, that should be followed up by another test in a few days, or a week to see if it is an aberration.
Heed these alerts to gather information on the web as to what might be happening to your dogs health and get to the vet early and tell him/her that you want to participate in maintaining your dog's health. , When you see the dog's urine go basic above 7, add foods, and supplements to influence an acidic urine.
Take urine weekly, and daily if something has changed.
Keep doing it bi-weekly when things are fine.
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