I am very sorry for your repeated issues. Sadly, Eurologist and similar tablets have been found to not live up to the promise over the last few years, so they are no longer much used.
These days, we are generally recommending to try and control stones via a balanced low calcium diet; this seems to work in the majority of cases. If you are one of the unlucky few ones (like my Cariad was) whose calcium absorption is somehow going wrong, then there is only so much you can do even though a diet can slow down the process.
This is what we have found works best to the current stand of knowledge and experience:
- filter your water with a bladder stone piggy even if you live in a soft water area; the minerals in the water can still contribute towards the build-up of sludge and stones
- many bladder piggies are naturally bad drinkers. Try to syringe them as much filtered water as they will take in one go once or twice daily, ideally up to 10-15ml (but it may not be possible with all piggies, so go just for as much as you can, as even that will help) in order to flush the bladder regularly and minimise a build-up of sludge. Do not syringe more than 0.5 ml (i.e. one mouthful) in one go and wait until it has been swallowed before syringing more to prevent things going down the wrong way.
- Stick to our recommended limited but balanced IC veg diet and see whether that works for you:
1 slice of bell or sweet pepper/capsicum of any colour; 1 slice of cucumber; 1-2 chunks of celery; 1 French bean; 1 sprig of coriander/cilantro; 1 one inch strip of spring greens
- feed low calcium pellets, such as bunny pellets (5 nuggets per piggy per day) or vitakraft (
@helen105281 can advise you best on that score)
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- protect the bladder walls with a glucosamine based product, either cystease or similar brands or vegetarian glucosamine. some people also swear on barley water, i.e. the strained gloopy water in which you have cooked pearl barley.
