What is the best treatment for a 7 year old male cat with Eosonophillia and chronic cystitis.?

For the chronic cystitis: Been there, done this. :o( I have 2 males who I almost lost to FLUTD, struvite crystals, bladder and kidney stones. I managed to cure both of them naturally (with the help of my vet) by feeding a species appropriate Raw food diet and adding in a regimen of natural supplements.

My biggest piece of advice is if your vet advises you to use a “prescription diet” food… choose to skip that route and go for a strictly wet food diet, canned or raw, instead. Vets that prescribe dry prescription foods (GASP!) and even canned prescription diets as the cure to Urinary Tract problems obviously know nothing about feline nutrition and are only bandaiding the problem instead of preventing it in the first place. Sadly, most vets never learn anything about feline nutrition except what the cat food companies teach them when they get them to sell their product. Any vet that would tell you to put your already sick cat on a garbage food made with cheap fillers like Hills Science Diet, Royal Canin, or Purina Prescription clearly knows NOTHING about cats nutritional needs

Cats were never designed to eat dry food. NEVER. They eat their prey whole and wet and they do not have a thirst mechanism. Because of that… cats are designed to eat only wet food. We idiot humans feed dry only for our convenience. They do not take in enough water on a dry diet and so their systems do not fully flush out so they get UTI issues. So, we, by feeding dry, are often the direct cause of all UTI issues in cats. Shows how much we used to know, huh?

What you need to do is unconcentrate the cats urine so that the bacteria and crystals that often cause inflamation do not have time to form and the system is flushed properly as it was designed to do. To do that you need to stop feeding all dry foods and switch to a STRICKTLY wet food diet. Either high quality canned, or a raw diet. It’s not cheap but it will cost you less in the long run than the vet. You can learn about raw food at www.catinfo.org or choose a high quality grain free canned food. No more dry food for your cat ever. Wet food only!

I’ve also personally had success using Glucosomine and Chrondriton for preventing inflammation in the bladder and urethra. Discuss this with your vet. There are some major feline studies being done on this that are VERY promising!

If your kittys urine needs more acidity because of struvite Crystals you can also add dry cranberry extract, just a pinch 2X a day on wet food. And you can try a pinch of Vitamin C sprinkled on as well.

Give your kitty distilled water to drink only. Both my vet and I are convinced after speaking with vets all over the county that the hardness and mineral content in water in different areas contributes to the # of cases of UTI’s in those areas. From here on out… distilled water only. Another suggestion… is to get kitty a water fountain. I bought the Bigdog Drinkwell for my cats and keep it filled with distilled water and they love it. It’s a great way to encourage their water consumption.

Lastly, get yourself a bag of scientific litter so you can keep track of kittys PH levels at home. You won’t be able to detect the crystals at home that cause blockages, but if the ph was off… you could get kitty in for a urine analysis right away and possibly head off a blockage.

Good luck!

Ok, I'm not completely up on the eo thing but a quick google (along with some corrected spelling) indicates that it's lesions which *may* be caused by a food allergy. Treatment seems to focus on steroids or boosting the immune system.

If I were you, I'd look into an immune system booster. I'm not up on them but I *think* I've read of things like coq10 being used....also something called Transfer Factor.....I'm not suggesting those items per se, I'm just suggesting that this is an area you could research further.

As for chronic cystitis, is he getting repeat infections-actual UTI's - or is it repeat bouts of urinary inflammation? If the former, there are things you can do to help prevent infection. The immune boosters I mentioned may help there, or you can look into cranberry.

If the latter, then there's lots you can do. And in fact the suggestion I'll make will likely be of benefit for his overall health anyway.

I would suggest a grainless canned food. The extra water will aid his urinary system in keeping the urine diluted. The lack of grains are going to help with weight and may help by not contributing to any food allergies he may have, and the healthier food in general is just that - healthier.

You might also consider using a novel protein just in case he has an allergy to chicken or fish. A novel protein is just a fancy way of saying unusual meat source. Venison, rabbit, lamb, beef - these are examples.

As for a specific food, I would suggest any from the second link I've provided. But again, perhaps you should avoid any with chicken or fish. Natural Balance is a decent line which offers venison and other meats and is reasonably priced. Nature's Variety Instincts (and their Prairie line) are grainless and also offer a variety of meats.

Hi,

Cystitis in cats is frequently stress-related. The scientific name for the condition is Idiopathic cystitis.

For those, several different strategies may prove useful:

- Try and identify any source of stress (dogs, other cats, kids, unknown illness ...) and address the problem.

- Use of pheromones (i.e. Feliway) to decrease the stress levels.

- Use of a feeding supplement called glucosamine (i.e. cystease or cystaid) to help the natural bladder defenses.

- Use of pain-killer (i.e. Metacam) to make the patient feel better: cystitis is a very painful condition.

- Veterinary diet designed to prevent/treat cystitis. Following urine sample analysis, your vet will advice you the best diet in your particular case (Is the urine acid enough? Is there any crystals? If so, which ones? ....)

That is for the long term monitoring. For each bout of cystitis, your vet may recommend the use of antibiotics.

Regarding Eosinophila, This is usually associated with an allergic-like reaction. The key is to identify what the patient is allergic to and try to avoid that particular allergen. Frequently, Fleas and Worms are involved, so that adequate flea/worm treatment might prove necessary.

If one cannot identify the cause, then administration of corticosteroids might be necessary.

I hope this helps, Julien

For chronic cystitis probably the only thing would be a special food. Do you know the cause? Bacteria or something dietary? I'm not sure about eosonophillia, depends on the cause.

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