I first started purchasing this for my cat that had uncontrollable blood glucose levels of over 500. We tried this, in addition to insulin, and nothing would help. We also tried the competitor, Purina, but our cat prefered the taste of Hill's.
However, even after a steady diet of the M/D food, there was no change, and we ended up increasing doses of insulin until it seemed like there would be no solution. Finally, I did research and found that grains might be contributing to much of the problem within a cat's system. Many cat foods, including this "diabetic management" food, are high in carbohydrate, and they use corn, wheat and soy as fillers. Much of the protein even comes from soy protein (as listed in the ingredients list)
We switched to a no-grain food, and literally overnight, we stopped the insulin because his blood glucose plummeted from over 500 (unreadable on our meter) to about 160. It yo-yo'd for a couple of days, but then after about 5 days, he was off insulin for good, and we have not given him another shot in over one year. The best thing for a diabetic cat, from my own experience, is to go to wet-food, but make sure there is no grains first. While the food is more expensive, it will pay for itself in savings from not buying insulin, needles and testing supplies in the long-run.
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