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If Ragu was fed too much boneless meat with low supplementation then you could assume that MBD would follow and because of the x-ray results that your vet has seen I don't think that any more testing is necessary at this point. This would be called nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism, caused by a low calcium/high phosphorus diet that has caused lowered blood calcium, which triggers excess parathyroid hormone excretion, which in turn is causing calcium to be released from bones.

The next thing to do is correct the nutritional deficiency and see if that corrects the problem, which was lowered bone density. You would know by looking at future x-rays and comparing the bone density with the first x-ray. The jaw bones and leg bones are good bones to look at for MBD diagnosis.

No, just a bachelors in science. But you don't need a fancy degree to look stuff up online.

<blockquote data-quote="dpjm" data-source="post: 164860" data-attributes="member: 549">If Ragu was fed too much boneless meat with low supplementation then you could assume that MBD would follow and because of the x-ray results that your vet has seen I don't think that any more testing is necessary at this point.&nbsp; This would be called nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism, caused by a low calcium/high phosphorus diet that has caused lowered blood calcium, which triggers excess parathyroid hormone excretion, which in turn is causing calcium to be released from bones.The next thing to do is correct the nutritional deficiency and see if that corrects the problem, which was lowered bone density.&nbsp; You would know by looking at future x-rays and comparing the bone density with the first x-ray.&nbsp; The jaw bones and leg bones are good bones to look at for MBD diagnosis.No, just a bachelors in science.&nbsp; But you don't need a fancy degree to look stuff up online.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dpjm, post: 164860, member: 549"] If Ragu was fed too much boneless meat with low supplementation then you could assume that MBD would follow and because of the x-ray results that your vet has seen I don't think that any more testing is necessary at this point. This would be called nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism, caused by a low calcium/high phosphorus diet that has caused lowered blood calcium, which triggers excess parathyroid hormone excretion, which in turn is causing calcium to be released from bones. The next thing to do is correct the nutritional deficiency and see if that corrects the problem, which was lowered bone density. You would know by looking at future x-rays and comparing the bone density with the first x-ray. The jaw bones and leg bones are good bones to look at for MBD diagnosis. No, just a bachelors in science. But you don't need a fancy degree to look stuff up online. [/QUOTE]

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