About 50 % of
diabetic cats respond for at least some of the time to oral hypoglycaemics (which are also used in humans) or to diabetic cat food.
Other
diabetic cats respond well to carbohydrate - restricted diets.
One of the most interesting recent developments is that
diabetic cats respond quite well to dietary management and there are new commercial diets developed to help.
Treatment
Each diabetic cat responds to treatments differently.
Not exact matches
Others
respond well to carbohydrate - restricted diets although
diabetic cats have been successfully managed with both types of diets; some
cats respond better to high - fibre diets and others to low - carbohydrate diets
Most
cats with Cushings disease are insulin resistant
diabetics, meaning that they
respond poorly to insulin.
Each
diabetic cat is an individual, and each
responds differently to treatment.
But cyclosporine might be the better choice in overweight
cats,
diabetic cats,
cats that have been diagnosed with heart disease and
cats that just did not
respond adequately to prednisolone or another corticosteroid.