Friendship Clinical Nutrition Service

Description

Whether a happy, healthy puppy or a finicky, mature kitty, the Friendship Clinical Nutrition Service offers a caring and collaborative approach to treating and supporting its patients.  The FHA Clinical Nutrition team provides optimal nutritional support by acting as an adjunct to appropriate medical and surgical therapies.  By partnering with the referring clinician, client, and specialist(s), we are able to provide the highest level of care for your pet.

Services offered:

• Interpretation of routine and advanced nutritional laboratory results
• In-person, video, and phone appointments/ consultations
• Tailored dietary treatment plans
  • Assisted feeding (i.e. feeding tube)
  • Commercial diet recommendations and guidelines
  • Healthy pet (including growth) nutrition
  • Healthy treats and food toppers
  • Homemade recipe formulations
  • Weight loss for obese and overweight patients

In addition to supporting healthy pets, our nutritionists are ready to treat a wide variety of medical conditions and symptoms including, but not limited to:

• Acute and chronic enteropathies/ GI disease
  • Includes chronic/ intermittent vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, etc.
• Acute kidney injury
• Anorexia/ dysrexia/ hyporexia
• Canine cognitive dysfunction
• Cardiovascular disease
• Chronic kidney disease
• Diet-responsive/ food allergic disease
  • Includes dermatologic and GI manifestations
• Electrolyte abnormalities involving:
  • Calcium
  • Potassium
  • Sodium
• Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD)
• Hyperlipidemia
  • Includes managing elevated triglycerides, cholesterol, and/or chylomicrons
• Hypertension
• Liver disease
  • Including acute and chronic liver issues, portosystemic shunts and liver failure
• Megaesophagus
  • And other motility disorders
• Neoplasia/ cancer
• Obesity
• Orthopedic disease
  • Including osteoarthritis and developmental disease
• Pancreatic disease
  • Includes pancreatitis and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
• Proteinuria
• Uro/ cysto/ nephrolithiasis (urinary stones)
  • Stone analysis results ideal
    

How to schedule:

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A Comprehensive Walkthrough of a Nutritionist Consultation

The right nutrition can go a long way, it can affect the progression and signs of many different health conditions and improve both the quantity and quality of your pet’s life.