Verbatim source extracts
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- WSAVA Nutritional Assessment Guidelines
- Implementing the Guidelines is as
- Incorporate a nutritional
- assessment and specific dietary
- recommendation
- in the physical
- exam for every
- pet, every time
- A. For every patient: do a screening
- B. For a patient with abnormal
- Lifestage considerations
- Abnormal BCS or MCS
- Poor skin or hair coat
- Systemic or dental disease
- Snacks, table food > 10% of total calories
- Unconventional diet
- Gastrointestinal upset
- Inadequate or inappropriate housing
- ©2011 Pet Nutrition Alliance.
- World Small Animal Veterinary Association
Notes
The WSAVA Nutritional Assessment Guidelines (developed with the Pet Nutrition Alliance, ©2011) call for a nutritional assessment and specific dietary recommendation in the physical exam for every pet, every time they visit. For every patient a screening evaluation is done; for a patient with abnormal physical-exam findings or nutritional risk factors an extended evaluation is done. The eight listed nutritional risk factors drive the decision to extend evaluation.