Staff Answer
May 11, 2026 - 07:38 AM
Our Antilithic will not affect your dog's urine ph and will help to dissolve the calcium oxalate crystals. I would approach this situation in this manner. Start your dog on our Bladder Support Package that supports kidney health and urinary tract health. The Cell Salt Nat Phos #10 that is part of this package will help to balance the urine pH which is important. Prescription diets address symptoms and provide very poor nutrition, just read the ingredient panel. Instead, your dog could benefit from a healthy, whole food diet. This diet can be home-prepared, a premix to which you add your own meat or a commercially prepared whole food diet. We offer suggestions in our article How to Feed Your Dog. There are two important reasons I recommend a whole food diet aside from the superior nutrition your dog will receive: dry kibble diets cause dehydration that concentrates urine causing lower pH and processed pet food diets contain large amounts of starches that also decrease urine pH. Approaching your dog's bladder stones in this manner will also help address two other contributing factors to low urine pH and these are kidney disease and insulin resistance.
