Your vet may well choose a combination of medicines to treat your dog’s heart failure. These medicines can be divided into three families according to their function, those which:
These medicines will improve the efficiency of your dog’s heart and reduce the symptoms of heart failure. Treatment will not cure your dog’s heart failure but will improve his or her quality of life.
Cardisure® is a veterinary medicine for treating dogs with heart failure.
It works by increasing the strength of heart contractions and by dilating (widening) blood vessels which makes it easier for the heart to pump blood around the body.
Nutrition can also play an important role in the care of congestive heart failure (CHF) cases.
Omega-3 fatty acids from marine sources support maintenance of lean body mass, appetite and normal cardiac rhythm.
SPECIFICTM is a range of veterinary pet nutrition made with high levels of fish and other marine ingredients to provide nutritional support for the management of many health conditions as well as helping keep dogs and cats healthy.
Find out more about the SPECIFICTM range supporting dogs with heart and kidney problems here:
