Cat UTI Food

Some household cats are known to have health issues pertaining to the urinary tract.



Common cat urinary tract infection may include formation of bladder stones or urine crystals. If such a condition is not diagnosed and treated immediately, it may lead to seriously health complications such as bladder infections.



Common symptoms of UTI in cats includes squatting or straining excessively while using the litter box, minimal or excessive urination, vomiting, presence of blood in the urine, a strong odor emanating from the cat’s urine, excessive licking of its genitals, development of a redness near the bladder area and overall lower activity levels. Male cats tend to be more prone to urinary tract infections as compared to female cats.



Additionally, exposure to stressful conditions such as change in the cat’s environment may also adversely impact the urinary tract of the cat resulting in formation or stones or crystals in the bladder.

Diet is known to either help or aggravate urinary tract infection in cats depending on the type of diet. High levels of magnesium and ash present in commercial canned cat food  may also give rise to urinary tract infection in cats. Cat bladder infection diet should ideally not include fish flavored cat food as they are prone to causing urine crystals. Additionally, urinary tract cat food, if dry should have water added to it so as to ensure that the cat is well hydrated and all the harmful toxins are flushed out of the body via urine. Once the cat has been kept on a cat bladder infection diet, the infection tends to clear up. In some extreme cases, the veterinarian may also prescribe certain pain killers and antibiotics; however this may be on a case to case basis. Urinary tract cat food helps to positively change the pH levels in the cat’s urine .This helps in dissolving the urine crystals and even guards against recurring infection. Many a time cats get dehydrated as they do like the taste of unfiltered water which may contain some chemical compounds. This further aggravates or leads to urinary tract infection in cats. Hence water consumption in cats has to be encouraged.

The key to a good cat bladder infection diet is low levels of magnesium and higher intakes of water or fluids. If urinary tract infection in cats is left undiagnosed, it may even be fatal on account of increased levels of toxins in the blood of the infected cat.