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Understanding, Preventing and Treating Refeeding Syndrome: Part 2 October 4, 2022
This is part 2 of a 2-article series on refeeding syndrome. It focuses on prevention and treatment. Part 1 focused on understanding the causes. To prevent a kitten from having further complications from malnutrition or starvation, it’s critical to slowly reintroduce nutrition in order to avoid refeeding syndrome. Providing nutrition should only be [...] The […]
Understanding, Preventing and Treating Refeeding Syndrome: Part 1 September 27, 2022
This is part 1 of a 2-article series. It focuses on understanding the causes of refeeding syndrome. Part 2 focuses on prevention and treatment. Refeeding syndrome refers to metabolic abnormalities that can be a devastating and often fatal consequence of rapid reintroduction of nutrition after a period of starvation or malnutrition. Refeeding syndrome [...] The […]
A Tiny Tiger’s Fight for Survival September 26, 2022
Even as a recent graduate from an accelerated veterinary technician school, I didn’t learn much about neonates or pediatrics. Since then, I have gained so much knowledge about kittens from the National Kitten Coalition, which has helped me as a foster and licensed veterinary technician (LVT). Working as a LVT, I often triage animals over […]