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Cat Date Weight today

  1. When should she be back, and what would make me bring her sooner?

    The interval is not one number for everybody. Anything just started, especially fluids, a blood pressure tablet or an ACE inhibitor, wants a check inside a week or two.

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  2. Can we do urine as well, including a UPC?

    Urine is the item that gets dropped most, and it needs no special kit. Her stage is not finished without a protein number.

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  3. What phosphorus number are we aiming for in her, not just whether it is in the printed range?

    The IRIS target sits inside the lab range. A number that looks Normal can still be too high for her stage.

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  4. Where is her potassium, and should anything she is on change because of it?

    It goes wrong in both directions. A supplement that was right in stage 2 can be harmful in late stage 4.

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  5. Can we measure blood pressure, if you have the machine?

    At least one in five kidney cats is hypertensive, some studies have found far more, and it usually causes no symptom until it causes a permanent one.

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  6. Given her last few weights, are we happy with the trend?

    Weight is the honest scoreboard. A quarter of a pound since last time is something no blood value says as plainly.

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  7. If these numbers are worse with no obvious reason, can we culture a urine sample collected by cystocentesis?

    A kidney infection can be silent, it is one of the commoner causes of a cat who deteriorated out of nowhere, and it is often treatable.

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