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Manual of Veterinary Dietetics

Author(s): Buffington, Holloway & Abood
Edition: 1st
ISBN10: 0721601235
ISBN13: 9780721601236
Cover: Paperback
 
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SummaryTable of Contents
Manual of Veterinary Dietetics is a comprehensive guide to diet and feeding recommendations for both healthy and sick pets. Recommendations are based on actual physical and nutritional assessment of patients and are designed to meet the wishes of concerned owners and the practical realities of the home environment. Nutritional management solutions address the particular health needs of patients, giving consideration to such issues as life stages, diet acceptance, medical response, and long-term benefit. The ultimate goal is to promote and sustain the nutritional health of pets in a manner that actively involves the owner and enhances the quality of the human-pet relationship.

  • Comprehensive coverage encompasses a number of pet species, with special attention paid to dogs and cats and helpful references for common exotic pets
  • Easy-to-read format and style make this text useful for both pet owners at home and professionals in the clinical setting
  • Helpful chapters address questions concerning attributes and efficacy of various commercial foods, assess the validity of advertising claims, and suggest recipes for homemade foods when they are indicated
  • Thorough consideration of the most current information on nutrient-sensitive diseases and interventional approaches
  • Numerous tables, figures, charts, and forms thoroughly present relevant and useful information for both medical professionals and pet owners


Expansive appendixes include:

  • Detailed nutrient comparison tables for commercial pet foods
  • Feeding directions for prevention of nutrition-related orthopedic diseases
  • Simple instructions for gastrostomy tube feeding and maintenance
  • Tables, figures, charts and forms that make dietary tracking and home monitoring easy


* Expanded appendices with new and updated information * Extensive coverage of nutrient sensitive disease * Many tables, figures, charts, and forms, useful for both professionals and pet owners in presenting information and tracking dietary information for medical/clinical, and home monitoring
Nutritional Assessment
1(8)
History
1(1)
Physical Examination
2(4)
Laboratory Evaluation
6(1)
Summary of Nutritional Assessment
6(3)
Normal Dogs
9(18)
Feeding During Gestation and Lactation
9(2)
Puppy Care and Feeding
11(4)
Growing puppies
13(2)
Adult Dogs
15(3)
Nutrition and behavior
16(2)
Performance Dogs
18(2)
Geriatric Dogs
20(3)
Nutrient needs of healthy old dogs
22(1)
Choosing foods for geriatric dogs
23(1)
Feeding management
23(1)
Summary
23(4)
Pregnancy and lactation
23(1)
Neonates
24(1)
Growing puppies
25(1)
Adult dogs
25(1)
Performance dogs
25(1)
Geriatric dogs
25(2)
Normal Cats
27(12)
Gestation and Lactation
27(1)
Growing Cats
28(2)
Adult Cats
30(1)
Geriatric Cats
31(3)
Healthy geriatric cats
31(2)
Feeding considerations
33(1)
Nutrient Needs Specific to Cats
34(2)
Summary
36(3)
Gestating and lactating cats
36(1)
Growing cats
37(1)
Adult cats
37(1)
Geriatric cats
37(2)
Diet and Feeding Factors
39(10)
Commercial Diets
39(8)
Characteristics of a satisfactory diet
39(1)
Pet foods
39(4)
Pet food labeling
43(4)
Feeding Factors
47(1)
Changing the diet of ``finicky'' eaters
47(1)
Summary
48(1)
Characteristics of a satisfactory diet
48(1)
Pet food labeling
48(1)
Feeding factors
48(1)
Clinical Dietetics
49(94)
Cancer
50(4)
Critical Care
54(18)
Nutrition and sick or injured animals
54(5)
Nutritional assessment
59(1)
Routes of nutrient delivery
60(7)
Diet selection
67(1)
Feeding
67(2)
Parenteral nutrition
69(2)
Returning to normal food intake
71(1)
Dental Disease
72(3)
Natural diets
72(1)
Soft versus hard foods
73(1)
Textured food
73(1)
Treats and biscuits
73(1)
Nonnutritional dental aids
74(1)
Feeding
74(1)
Conclusion
74(1)
Endocrine Disease
75(7)
Diabetes mellitus
75(4)
Hyperlipidemia
79(3)
Gastrointestinal Disease
82(12)
Acute gastroenteritis and vomiting or small bowel diarrhea
82(1)
Gastric dilatation-volvulus
83(1)
Borborygmus and flatulence
84(1)
Hairballs in cats
84(1)
Chronic small bowel diarrhea
84(1)
Chronic large bowel diarrhea
85(2)
Constipation
87(1)
Inflammatory bowel disease
88(1)
Megacolon in cats
89(1)
Lymphangiectasia and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency
90(1)
Pancreatitis
91(1)
Chronic liver disease
92(1)
Idiopathic hepatic lipidosis in cats
93(1)
Heart Disease
94(6)
Congestive heart failure
94(2)
Dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs
96(1)
Dilated cardiomyopathy in cats
97(3)
Kidney Disease
100(9)
Obesity
109(8)
Obesity and disease
109(2)
Prevention
111(1)
Obesity therapy program
111(5)
Summary
116(1)
Skin Disease
117(8)
Diagnosis
117(8)
Urinary Tract Disease
125(9)
Stones
125(8)
Idiopathic cystitis in cats
133(1)
Sick Geriatric Cats
134(3)
Oral disease
135(1)
Chronic renal failure
135(1)
Cardiovascular disease
136(1)
Hyperthyroidism
136(1)
Cancer
136(1)
Diabetes mellitus
137(1)
Conclusions
137(1)
Sick Geriatric Dogs
137(1)
Diet-Induced Problems
138(5)
Vitamin A
138(1)
Vitamin E and thiamin deficiencies
139(1)
Nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism
140(3)
Contemporary Issues in Clinical Nutrition
143(20)
Contemporary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine
143(4)
Evaluating Information on the World Wide Web
147(4)
Evidence-Based Medicine
151(5)
The Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change and Its Role in Obesity Therapy
156(7)
Nutrition for Exotic Pets
163(72)
Appendices
A. Nutrient Comparison Tables for Commercial Dog Foods
171(10)
B. Nutrient Comparison Tables for Commercial Cat Foods
181(6)
C. Diet History Sheet
187(4)
D. Food Transition Sheet
191(2)
E. Detailed Feeding Directions for Prevention of Nutrition-Related Developmental Orthopedic Disease
193(2)
F. Protein Calculation Sheet
195(2)
G. Enrichment Recommendations for Indoor Cats
197(4)
H. Veterinary Diets for Dogs
201(14)
I. Veterinary Diets for Cats
215(16)
J. Basic Homemade Diet for Cats and Dogs
231(2)
K. Gastrostomy Tubes
233(2)
L. Exchange Lists
235

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