Not exact matches
Eating a poor
diet, eating the wrong foods, not exercising, and
even taking certain
prescription drugs can all have an effect
on your testosterone levels.
And I'm with you
on avoiding
prescription diets,
even if it turns out that he has IBD.
If something like that were to happen, you would need to change him to an
even stricter
prescription diet but if the over-the-counter one is keeping him from having his urinary issues, I would definitely keep him
on that one.
But, no medication or
even a
prescription diet is without risks, and we don't recommend starting
on these until the benefits outweigh the risks.
Your veterinarian may recommend that your cat stay
on her current food but he / she may advise switching to a senior formula or
even a
prescription diet based
on a diagnosis of a particular medical issue.
Even veterinary
prescription diets designed to be extremely gentle
on the canine GI track and easy to digest for dogs utilize corn as an ingredient because there's no reason not to.
Coming from a less flexible, more «traditional» or I'd say, «early - age» veterinary background where standard grain - based
prescription diets are often urged as a solution -
even for allergies, I ended up finally switching my one asthmatic to grain free
on my own.
Of course we taught that we should vaccinate anyway (
even though the label
on the vaccine clearly states that only healthy dogs should be vaccinated) and recommend a change in
diet to one of the clinic's
prescription formulas to help eliminate the itchy skin and / or digestive upsets.