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Raw Food And UTI
by marneemadsen - February 19, 2010
HI Steve and everyone,

I have a new patient who we changed to raw food about 2.5 weeks ago. Within 1 week the client thought she noticed some increased frequency in urinating. It worsened and I saw them yesterday. She has overt hematuria and UTI with cocci bacteria.

I have had two other reports from people who told me their cats got bloody urine when switching to raw.

I can't come up with any good reasons/correlations.

She is a 10yr old lab with really no issues historically.

Any thoughts on how the food might have set it off? It was Steve's Real Food beef (a locally made product).

Thanks,
Marnee

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by naturevet
February 20, 2010
Hi Marnee,

Apart from serving as a source of bacteria that can ascend up the urethra, I don't know how else to explain this. We don't have this food in Canada, so I don't have my own experience to compare it to. It would be interesting to see if others have noticed the same thing.

S
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