Best dog food for liver problems?

Question

We recently discovered my dog needs to have surgery to remove 2 tumors, one is fatty, and the other is possibly malignent. The vet discovered in doing her bloodwork that the toxin levels of her liver are slightly elevated. He recommended Science Diet Prescription ID dog food and a good teeth cleaning to help this. The problem is she does not like this food... I have 2 vets, (one for routine things, and one for more detailed care) Both of which are die hard Science Diet guys (they sell it). Does anybody know of a comparable dog food, or even one that is better? I have heard Science Diet isn't as good as people say anyway.

Daisy is currently eating Science Diet sensitive stomach, I am mixing it with the ID and she is still turning her nose up at the ID.

Answer 1

Ask them about the LD diet by hills. It's made specifically for liver problems and he may like it better. I don't know why they would recommend the ID because thats usually for dogs with digestive or intestinal problems. Ask about the LD though.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

OK let's get one thing straight - Hills make good food. I love their food, and I didn't get a scholarship from them, and neither did any of the vets I know! (maybe it's an American Hills thing, I've never heard of it).

Anyway, Hills L/D is their special diet for liver problems. Ask your vet about it, as if they know Hills they will probably know L/D and presumably have a good reason for not putting your dog on it.

There are other prescription brands of liver diets. Tell your vet the dog doesn't like the i/d and get him to recommend you another (diet that is, not dog :-) )

By the way, Hills Science Diets and Hills Prescription Diets are different things - Science Diets are available in petshops, their prescription diets are from vets only.

In my experience the people who claim Hills food is lousy either don't know the actual food or don't understand about nutrition. I said IN MY EXPERIENCE I.E. MY OPINION OK before anyone starts.

Anyway back to your dog - just basically get the vet to recommend another suitable food and ask about L/D.

Hope the surgery goes well and that both tumours are benign,

Chalice

Answer 4

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The Hills AD diet is very high nutrition and designed for ill dogs or dogs recovering from surgery. Like UHave, I syringe-fed a critically ill dog this food and it kept her going a little longer. She had kidney failure and relapsed, but did rally at the beginning due to giving this food. I lost a geriatric dog to liver failure/suspected liver cancer. He would only eat every couple of days and only when given new foods. The illness hit hard and fast so he wasn't sick very long. The liver failure makes the dog very nauseated, so he just doesn't want to eat, and when he does, he gets sick. Cerenia is a very good anti-nausea medication (as mentioned) so ask your vet about this or another anti-nausea agent. It depends on the problem with the liver as to what can help and for how long. The liver can repair itself to some degree, so that is encouraging. If you are worried about the rice not digesting, cook it and then put it in a food processor or blender to make it more gruel-like. When my dog was sick and I was working on getting him to eat, I got some of the Nutri-Cal paste to give him. It comes in a tube like toothpaste and is a very high-calorie, high nutrient supplement. You can find this at most pet supply stores. I would try the chicken breasts as well. The milk thistle and Sam-E are very good for liver health, but it can take a few weeks for these to start helping. I believe I answered your previous question and mentioned a supplement called Denamarin that I had some success with. Good luck. I know it is hard to experience this.

Answer 5

Vets push Science Diet/Prescription Diet because Hill's gives scholarships to help get them through college with the agreement that when they set up their practices they will sell Hill's products! Hill's dog food is not a good choice. Read the ingredients and compare and you'll quickly see it's primarily grain based and not meat based. There are other prescription dog foods. Purina for instance has one as well. But you will need to do some research and see what values the dog food should have to help with the liver problems.

Answer 6

Science diet is being sold by your vets because it is a VERY good diet. People who do not like it are organic/holistic dog food advocates (their food is still mass produced, has additives and sold for a.........profit).
Science diet L/D (liver diet) is what you need, but other companies like royal canin and purina make prescription diets.
Again, you cannot buy those 'other' diets 'over the counter' either. A vet has to sell it to you because it is a prescription diet.

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Answer 9

If you do not like the Hills product look at Purina, Roayl Canin, and Euknuba each of these companies produces a product like Hills for certain conditions.
I feed some of the Royal Canin and one of the Purina products as I am not happy with what is in the Hills.
The others are not fabulous but better than the Hills and my cat can keep it down. With the Hills she vomits everything she eats.

Answer 10

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