Urine Smells Like Ammonia
So Pooka has never had a symptomatic UTI. She is colonized with e-coli and we have given her 1g of d-mannose daily for almost a year now.
But on and off for the past week or so her diapers have wreaked of ammonia. The advice I would give myself is “push fluids” but nothing has really changed in her fluid input. I have started giving her more water (where I normally would have given her milk), but it just won’t quit.
This is still considered non-symptomatic right? No other changes except smell.
Thoughts?
The only thing that comes to mind for me would be dehydration or diet high in sugar or high in protein that’s all I can think of
I would say yes, that is non-symptomatic. As long as there is no fever, lethargy, etc. I might up the d-mannose? Maybe, if she isn’t drinking more, offer her foods with a high water content. Melons come to mind, particularly.
We went through a bit of a phase with that a couple months ago and it disappeared as quick as it came, after lingering with us a few weeks. That’s purely anecdotal, but maybe it helps.