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Old August 17th, 2014, 08:23 PM
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I have found that as long as you have her on a good high quality food (I have a rotation of Petcurean's GO line of food alternating between the chicken, duck, and their turkey-chicken-trout formulations) that will suffice. I do watch the treats making sure none of then have high potassium or sodium. Diet does not seem to play a large part with Addisons. As for meds they will most likely get you to try the florinef as the mineralocorticoid . It comes in tablet form....but in Miikkas case it did not seem to work satisfactorily. The percorten-v is more expensive and has to be injected intramuscularly. Lots of blood test will be required when you first start treatment, but once you get the meds fine tuned only a yearly test is needed. When I start lowering Miikkas percorten-v next month a monthly blood test will be reqiured to monitor her various levels. Glad I could be of some help.
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