Sentences with phrase «urine more alkaline»

Most veterinarians recommend a change in diet to one that makes the urine more alkaline (reduction of acid).

Potassium Citrate increases urinary pH making the urine more alkaline.

Making our urine more alkaline can help prevent the formation of kidney stones (and even dissolve uric acid stones).

The basic explanation is this — foods can change urine pH, and vegetables and greens do make the urine more alkaline.

Not exact matches

The highly alkaline urine reacts with the highly acidic vinegar and if not done in the exact ratios needed, this can actually create more of a stain.

Two common factors emerged in urine that had a better ability to resist bacterial growth: it had a high pH — one that's more alkaline, in other words — and higher levels of certain metabolites formed by gut microbes.

Your pet's urine can also become slightly more basic after it eats (the post prandial alkaline tide).

o While high levels of bacteria can lead to alkaline urine, much more commonly it is certain diets that tend to affect the urine pH in one direction or the other.

Cats on a vegan diet can develop abnormally alkaline (high pH) urine due to the more alkaline pH of plant based proteins in comparison to the acidic pH of meat - based foods which cats have evolved to eat.

As mentioned below in the Crystal section, struvite crystals are more apt to form in an alkaline urine and calcium oxalate crystals are more apt to form in an acidic urine.

Calcium - crystal prescription diets raise urine pH, making it more basic, or alkaline.

This builds up and, especially as the cat is usually hyperventilating from anxiety and pain, the urine is getting more alkaline and irritating.

Crystal formation is less likely to form in urine that is more acidic and more likely to form in urine that has a high pH (alkaline).