Hepatic Lipidosis high bilirubin -Prescription Diet Food

[kbr9800]

My 2 year old cat was very sick and would not eat. Took him to the vet and after blood work it showed extremely high bilirubin readings. Still at the vet after 5 days and appears to be doing much better. The vet had to place a feeding in him and we need to keep it in when he comes home until he eats on his own.
The vet said he must change diet and eat Prescription Diet Food i/d. I have been reading up on that type of cat food and have seen several complaints from people who have used this product with bad results.
Has anyone here have any experience with this product. After spending at least $1100.00 for this vet visit I do not wish to make him sick by eating this brand food. The money spent is one thing but my cats health is much more important than the money.

Thanks

[~Siameseifuplz~]

I read the ingredients and he description of what it's supposed to help with, I don't really see how it does that though, did he explain why he must take this food?

The ingredients are disgusting of course, all hills foods are disgusting IMO, but I don't want to tell you to switch off without knowing what it's supposed to do for your cat.
Is high bilirubin simply a sign of hepatic lipidosis? If so then I'd say you can probably feed any food that the cat wants to eat (preferably wet food), it's just important that he does eat. but perhaps someone knows better than me.

[Heidi n Q]

I saved my cat Malibu from Hepatic Lipidosis in the fall of 2006. We did have a veterinary diagnosis but I treated her at home with assisted force-feeding and she survived. I only had to assist force-feed her for about 5-6 days before she began to eat on her own. Recovery was slow and long, but she steadily recovered after she began to eat on her own.

I fed the vet's canned Hills but within days I switched to a Eukanuba max-calorie canned that had twice as much calories/protien than the Hills. I fed these two products because they are specifically formulated to be easy to syringe feed, without chunks to get stuck. When she finally showed interest in eating on her own, it was some carppy grocery store dry food that I like to call McKittyCrack. I didn't care *what* she was eating, she was EATING on her own and I was happy! I figured there would be plenty of time later to adjust her diet but *right now* I just want her to eat whatever she wants to eat.

I have also had jaundice (same thing as HL in cats) and it made me super-nauseaous. It makes kitties nauseaous, too ... but the only thing that will save the HL/jaundiced cat ... is it must eat enough food to sustain itself, halt the progression of HL and then reverse the effects of HL. A cat feeling nauseated will not eat a sufficient amount to halt and reverse the effects. I fed Mallie 20ccs of soupy Rx canned food every 3-4hrs for 5-6dys.
heidi =^..^=