Effectiveness of IV Fluids
Hi RenalCat community,
I wanted to see how effective IV fluids can be to reducing a cats Creatinine and Bun levels.
My elderly "young man" is almost 19 and has had CKD for the last 9 months. His Creatinine level was 2.0 and Bun was 60. He acted the same, but we switched him to renal food and he had been drinking a ton of water.
Early this week he started limping, but he had injured himself before and it started getting better. Then on Friday he missed dinner, but I figured he would pick at his food like he does sometime. Saturday morning he didn't want to eat or drink. Was very sleepy. Finally I got him to eat and he wolfed down his food and then some more and drank a bunch of water. After a long nap He ate 2 more times that day and acted 80% of normal, walked around and explored outside. This morning he didn't want to eat or drink much and I decided I had to take him to the Vet Hospital. I noticed that he peed about half as much as he normally did.
They ran his blood work and his numbers are Creatinine 5.9 BUN 124 Phosphorus 15.2
The vet recommended keeping him for 24 hours and try and IV Flush his system.
Otherwise he was looking good, he was alert and walking around, just a little bit of wobble in his back legs.
Anyone else have good experience with an IV flush?