Can dogs always eat prescription food?

Dogs with chronic diseases can always eat prescription food. Prescription food is prepared by veterinarians or animal nutritionists based on the pet's disease or nutritional status. Such as kidney failure, heart disease, and allergic reactions, dogs need to eat prescription food for life, and are not allowed to change their diet for life. On the contrary, healthy dogs do not need to eat prescription food.

The kidney disease that is more commonly encountered clinically is renal failure, and renal failure is due to damage to the kidneys, resulting in a decrease in filtration capacity, resulting in metabolic waste such as urea nitrogen. , creatinine, inorganic phosphorus and other toxic substances accumulate 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 effect does prescription food have on dogs?

1. Help the medicine to work
2. Reduce the burden on the body caused by the disease
3. Reduce the dosage of medicine
4. Control or alleviate the recurrence of the disease