Many disease conditions are associated with what a pet eats and these diseases can often be cured or managed with a carefully chosen diet and/or diet supplements.
These diseases include skin, anal gland, and ear allergies, lots of different digestive disorders, pancreatitis, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, bladder problems, joint diseases, kidney disease, and aging.
We also have special diets for pets recovering from trauma, parasitism, long term illness, and major surgery.
Introduction: As you are surely aware, there's been a great deal of experimentation, discovery, and research in nutrition in the last 50 years.
Some of this effort has resulted in diets that greatly improve the quality of life of patients suffering from different diseases.
Every few years there are important discoveries and ideas and a few years later we benefit from a new diet able to help manage, control, prevent, or minimize a disease problem.
In the case of pets, we are at an advantage over human nutritionists; we can easily control what our patients eat!
There are several top pet food companies that provide diets meant to treat or prevent different types of diseases.
That's great for us for obvious reasons...competition begets lower prices, more choice, and continued improvements as each company strives to out do the other.
While we're on the subject of price, most special, prescription only and non-prescription super premium diets are significantly more expensive that regular pet foods. But don't think of these diets as being expensive food ... think of them as inexpensive treatments for problems that would otherwise make your pets unhealthy and miserable.
Why a prescription?
These diets weren't meant for the average, healthy animal. They have been designed to effect changes in the pet's digestion, immune responses, blood pressure, kidney, liver metabolism or blood glucose levels.
They are sometimes meant to be given for life when pets have life long disease conditions like diabetes ... or they may be intended for limited periods.
Targeting specific medical disorders, therapeutic diets can benefit animals with such problems as food allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, urinary tract dysfunction, kidney disease, heart disease, liver disease and even some forms of cancer. Patients with these problems often require certain nutrients to be added or eliminated from their diets.
Therefore, the misuse of specifically formulated therapeutic diets can be hazardous… and veterinarians need to be the responsible source of their distribution to the dog owner.
For some medical conditions, we will often recommend a well chosen, less expensive non-prescription diet if we think it would work as well.
Click on and of the links below to go to the therapeutic diets we recommend the most because we have found them to work well:
For some disease problems, choosing a special diet can be the most important part of the treatment.
This page is an introduction to this topic.
At the top and bottom of the page are links to the diets and supplements we recommend for each type of disease that responds well to therapeutic diets.
Links to other pages about the other products we recommend at the FoxNest Veterinary Hospital:
Revolution Frontline Plus Comfortis Vectra3D Promeris CapStar
Program 6 Month Injection for Cats Sentinel KnockOut House
KnockOut Premise Advantage Multi PrevenTic Collars
Revolution Advantage Multi TriHeart Plus
ProHeart 6 month injection
Inteceptor Sentinel
Panacur ProFender Pyrantel-50mg Revolution Advantage Multi
Inteceptor Sentinel
TriHeart Plus
And The Very Best Products Available For:
ZymoxHC FoxNest Ear Cleaner Mometamax Acrexx MalOtic
Phytosphingosine Hydroxyzine Tris8 Duralactin OFA's
Exotic Diets
Phytosphingosine FoxNest Medicated Shampoo Relief OFA's Zymox
FoxNest OatMeal Shampoo Hydroxyzine The Furminator Exotic Diets Hylyt Shampoo Genesis Spray BioGroom Natural Scented Shampoos MaloKet
Zymox VBG Cream Nolvasan Malotic DermaGel Bag Balm
Fly Repellent Vet Wrap
Biotene MaxiGuard Oral Gel Greenies TD OraVet Kits Gum Vaccine
ProPectalin DigestRite DiaRobe CatLax DiaBac Pancrazyme
GastriCalm K-Pectin
Duralactin Dasaquin SynoviFlex ChondroFlex for Cats Rimadyl Adequan
Tramadol AntiOxUltra
Special Diets Duralactin AntiOxUltra OFA's
Reconcile/Prozac DAP Collars & Plug-Ins Elimiodor Forbid
OFA's AntiOx SAM-e CranVet MultiVitamins PetTinic Milk Replacer
Bottles & Nipples Slentrol Reducing Diet LeanTreats
Prescription Therapy Diets
Urine Off The Equilizer Eliminodor Pet Candles ThioTrol Skunk
The Furminator Shed Guard OFA's Phytosphingosine
AllerPet for Humans MicroChips Pet Insurance Pet Candles Bag Balm
Dog Appeasing Pheromone Feliway Spray PetGuard
