Sentences with phrase «cats urine concentration»

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The high water content in the proteins also prevents dehydration, crystal formation and excessive concentration of urine, especially in cats.

So, to help see how a cat's kidneys are doing, vets test the urine quality or appropriateness of urine concentration.

Bleach is extremely effective at eliminating cat urine odor - use bleach diluted with water at a 50/50 concentration.

Cats that are often plagued with urinary infections are often put on an acidified diet that helps make the urine pH have a higher acid concentration.

Cats are very sensitive to smells, and the ammonia concentration in the urine can even bother their eyes when it builds up inside of a covered box.

We now know that multiple factors lead to struvite crystal formation including the pH of the urine, the amount of magnesium and phosphorus excreted in the urine, the length of time urine stays in the bladder before the cat urinates, and the concentration of the urine.

If glucose is present in your cat's urine, a blood test will determine blood glucose concentration and fructosamine concentration.

It's now thought that the main factors in the development of struvite crystals in cats are urine pH, magnesium concentration, and the cat's water consumption (it's said that most cats don't drink enough).

Goals include lowering the concentration of urine and increasing urine volume so that cats flush their bladders more often and more fully.

When a cat is on a diet of water - depleted dry food, they produce a more highly concentrated urine, with higher urine specific gravity, and they produce a lower volume of urine which means that a higher concentration of crystals will be present in the urine.

In a urinalysis, your veterinarian will consider the concentration of the urine, its pH, and the presence of protein, blood cells, bacteria, and other cells that generally should not be found in feline urine, all of which provide important information regarding the health of a cat's kidneys.

For a proper diagnosis, your veterinarian will test your cat's glucose concentrations in their blood and urine.

Dry diets also predispose cats to lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD, LUTD, FUS, crystals, stones, cystitis) because they force such a high degree of urine concentration.