Question:
Can I give my cat sugar? Please answer /:?
2011-06-12 11:41:08 UTC
My cat is sick and won't eat; we want to give her glucose; it's meant to help them start eating again. So would be giving her human glucose tablets be okay? We could dissolve them in water and put them in her mouth using a pipette - it worked with her steroids.
What about just plain sugar dissolved in water? I know it's not good on a regular basis - it's just until she an start eating again. If she eats, the vet may be able to operate on her ( she has swelling of the intestine :/)
if you have any other advice, please say
thanks a lot xx
Five answers:
susan n
2011-06-12 12:03:54 UTC
In an emergency situation you can supply your cat with needed calories using glucose or dissolved table sugar (half glucose/half sucrose).

The trouble is that you won't be able to get enough calories into the cat that way. A Tablespoon of sugar contains about 45 calories and a cat needs 250-300 per day.



Another problem is cat metabolism. I believe that it requires fat (triglycerides).



And cat nutrition requires relatively large amounts of protein.



Ideally, you should have the vet keep the cat and put in a feeding tube.



If that is out of the question for whatever reason I would forget about the pipette and get several large needle-less syringes from either the vet or a pharmacy.



Prepare a high-calorie food for syringe-feeding.

I would suggest Wellness chicken or turkey canned food pureed in the blender or food processor with just enough water to make it easy to syringe. Make only enough for a couple of days at a time, better to make it fresh daily.

The cat should consume at least 5 ounces of the actual food not including the water each day. You could add a couple of cooked egg yolks to each day's ration for extra calories too.



It will be a miserable chore getting this stuff into the cat. If you want to do this I recommend that you Google "syringe feeding cat" and "force-feeding cat" for videos because it is too involved to describe correctly here.

And be sure you have plenty of clean towels for the actual feeding and plenty of baby wipes for cleaning your cat.
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2011-06-12 12:06:41 UTC
that doesn't sound right, your vet should have gave you a diet plan,

or have put her on fluids or given you a cats milk diet? definately do not give her human glucose tablets

also i can think of no operations were she would be required to eat? unless she is too weak to go through the surgery but it is the intestinal swelling which is stopping her from eating, eating would be excruciating for her?

also you are meant to starve animals before surgery's?



my advise find a ................ new vet
maggs
2011-06-12 11:50:15 UTC
Use a baby bottle with water or milk warmed up and it will fill her tummy and she wont die its best you consult a vet though
Madi T
2011-06-12 11:44:41 UTC
tell you vet to put her on IV fluids :/
robert s
2011-06-12 11:45:24 UTC
Wait ur vet wants to operate? Then ask ur vet. Duh!


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