Investigation of the efficacy of a dietetic food in the management of chronic enteropathies in dogs

Camilla Johnsen, Adam Gow, Susan Campbell, Silke Salavati, Nicholas Bommer, Richard Mellanby

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Background: Chronic Enteropathies (CE) are a common cause of morbidity in dogs. Chronic enteropathies are diagnosed in dogs with chronic gastrointestinal clinical signs (>3 weeks), inflammatory changes on intestinal biopsies and where no other underlying cause is determined based on a thorough, standardised diagnostic workup. Based on response to therapy, CE are sub-classified into food-responsive, antibiotic-responsive or steroid-responsive enteropathies. A significant proportion of dogs with a CE are food-responsive; however, there are limited peer-reviewed publications describing the clinical efficacy of the commercially available diets used to treat CE. Methods: In this study, we evaluated the response of 15 dogs with a CE to a commercially available dietetic food (Hill’s TM Prescription Diet TM i/d TM Sensitive Canine Dry). The dogs underwent a standard diagnostic evaluation, and did not receive concurrent anthelmintic, antibiotic, glucocorticoid or gastroprotectant therapies. The clinical efficacy of the dietary treatment was assessed by comparing the Canine Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity Index (CIBDAI) before and a median of 13 days after dietary therapy. Results: We found that the CIBDAI significantly decreased following the introduction of the dietetic food (median CIBDAI score pre treatment 9, post treatment 2 (p<0.0005)). Conclusion: Our study demonstrates that this dietetic food can be used to successfully manage CE in dogs.
Original languageEnglish
JournalVeterinary Record
Early online date29 Oct 2019
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 29 Oct 2019

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