Liquid feed for tube feeding

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:03:14 GMT

[quote user="Louise Alexander"]

We use Royal Canin convalesence powder mixed with warm water makes a liquid feed. I used it last week in oesop tube in a cat.

Louise

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Ditto.

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Rajat — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:18:23 GMT

We still seem to be getting it...although some time ago there were problems with supply...will check where we are sourcing it from!

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:09:34 GMT

[quote user="Rajat"]

The best diet out there I have found in terms of Kcal/ml is Enteral care. It can be ordered from Kruuse , and comes in hi protein (ideal for cats) and mid level protein (HLP or MLP). The MLP has 1.2kcal/ml. I cant remember what the HLP has. It is balanced, economical, and is liquid enough to go thorugh a 4 french nasogastric tube in a cat without ANY clogging. Have not used any other diets for feeding tubes in the last 3-4 years since this came out!!

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Apparently it's discontinued. Is this not true?

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Rajat — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:43:30 GMT

PS- second the comments about fat in diet and pancreatitis in cats- dont worry about it! Just make sure you give cats plenty of protein and at least mild-moderate levels of fat...

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Rajat — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:42:03 GMT

Struggled with this a few years ago because I found the limiting factor in liquid diets was the Kcal/ml, i.e. the volumes required of regular diets when mixed with water were much too high for dogs and cats tummies to accomodate.

hope this helps

Cheers

Raj

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Lucy K — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:24:36 GMT

My internal med notes say that low fat diets aren't essential for cats - give them whatever they will tolerate.

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Rob Loxley — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:23:37 GMT

Blend something like RCW sensitivity pouches in a blender?

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Utlendigur — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:30:23 GMT

[quote user="Thomas Johnson"]

[quote user="Robin Grimmer"]

a/d in this case not good because of the high fat content;

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I thought that, unlike in dogs, there was no need to avoid high fat diets in cats with pancreatitis?

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I thought it was more that they didn't need the ultra low fat diets that dogs do, but that moderate fat restriction was still advised?

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Mark Rowland — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:50:17 GMT

Oxbow carnivore care should do the trick.

Goodluck

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Thomas Johnson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:38:38 GMT

[quote user="Robin Grimmer"]

a/d in this case not good because of the high fat content;

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I thought that, unlike in dogs, there was no need to avoid high fat diets in cats with pancreatitis?

Re: Liquid feed for tube feeding

Louise6732 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:29:25 GMT

We use Royal Canin convalesence powder mixed with warm water makes a liquid feed. I used it last week in oesop tube in a cat.

Louise