What is prescription food?

Prescription food is a diet formulated by a veterinarian or animal nutritionist based on the pet's disease or nutritional status to help restore health. Just as humans have introduced dietary management to relieve discomfort and enhance the efficacy of medicine, animal medicine now also includes the role of diet in treatment plans. The prescription food that came into being is not simply a mixture of medicine and food, but a combination of treatment and food, with different food designed for different conditions. Achieve the purpose of dietary therapy with precise nutritional ratio.
The most commonly encountered kidney disease in clinical practice is renal failure. Renal failure is due to damage to the kidneys, which leads to a decrease in filtration capacity, resulting in the accumulation of metabolic wastes such as urea nitrogen, creatinine, inorganic phosphorus and other toxic substances in the body. Urea nitrogen is the main end product of protein metabolism in the body, and creatinine is the product of muscle metabolism in the body. The kidneys are usually the main organ for excretion of these substances.

What are the benefits of eating prescription food for dogs?

Helping medicines work: Many times after doctors prescribe medicines to sick dogs, the food in normal dog food may interact with certain substances in the medicines, affecting the effectiveness of the medicines. Prescription food is designed according to different pathologies and can promote the efficacy of medicine through food.

Reduce the burden on the body caused by illness: For example, if your dog suffers from liver disease, taking prescription dog food for liver disease can reduce the burden on the liver by reducing the substances that the liver needs to metabolize, and help the liver recuperate.

Reduce the dosage of medication: If the dog suffers from a disease that requires a large amount of medication, it can be adjusted through food to control the delay of the disease. The doctor can reduce the dosage of medication. For example, for dogs with diabetes, if the dog can be well controlled If you eat more food, the doctor may reduce the dosage of insulin, which can reduce the side effects after taking the medicine.

Control or slow down the recurrence of the disease: Like human diseases, many dog ​​diseases are easy to relapse after being cured, such as urinary stones. Many dogs with urinary stones relapse soon after surgery. The design of urinary stone prescription food is based on the principle of urinary stones, reducing the elements that cause crystallization and increasing the inducing elements that make dogs drink as much water as possible. Improving this kind of prescription food can naturally effectively reduce the chance of recurrence or prolong the time of recurrence.

About some misunderstandings about prescription food by owners

Prescription food itself does not contain pharmaceutical ingredients, whether it is Western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine. No additions are allowed, and the mainstream international prescription foods are designed by adjusting the levels of various nutrients. This technical threshold is very high. For example, in prescription foods for heart disease, the sodium ion content should generally be controlled at about 0.2%. Because all ingredients in the raw materials contain sodium ions, sodium must be removed through a process, which requires very high technical requirements. In addition, it is also a misunderstanding to use traditional Chinese medicine formula to regulate food. The nutritional content of food is not processed, and conditioning by traditional Chinese medicine alone should not be included in the food category.
For example, some chronic diseases, such as kidney failure, heart disease, food allergies,It needs to be eaten for life, and dietary changes are not allowed throughout life.
Prescription foods cannot be used to prevent certain diseases and cannot be consumed as medicine.